Recipe: Delicious Homemade Vegetable Soup

Homemade Vegetable Soup. I love this vegetable soup, but I might have changed it so much it's not quite this recipe. This tasty homemade vegetable soup recipe with a tomato base features potatoes, green beans, and carrots for a quick and easy meal. In a stockpot, heat oil over medium-high heat; saute carrots, onions, celery and green pepper until crisp-tender.

There is no water in this recipe, only tomato juice and chicken or vegetable broth, giving it an extra zesty punch. Heat two tablespoons of the olive oil in a stockpot pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the onions, carrots, celery, and the tomato paste. You can cook Homemade Vegetable Soup using 25 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Homemade Vegetable Soup

1. Prepare 2 box of 32 oz chicken broth, low sodium.
2. It's 1/3 of elephant ear garlic, peeled and minced.
3. You need 1/2 packages of sliced mushrooms, chopped.
4. Prepare 1/2 packages of green onions, chopped.
5. It's 1 packages of 16oz stir fry blen frozen vegetables.
6. You need 1 packages of 16oz classic blend mixed frozen vegetables.
7. Prepare 2 cup of frozen broccoli.
8. You need 1 cup of frozen peas.
9. You need 1/2 tbsp of ground sage.
10. Prepare 1/2 tbsp of crushed rosemary.
11. Prepare 1 cup of water.
12. You need 2 cup of instant mashed potatoes.
13. You need 1 tbsp of oregano.
14. Prepare 1 tbsp of seasoning salt.
15. It's 1 tbsp of basil.
16. Prepare 1 tsp of thyme.
17. It's 1 tsp of ground ginger.
18. Prepare 1/2 tsp of allspice.
19. Prepare 1/2 tsp of paprika.
20. Prepare 2 tbsp of italian seasoning.
21. You need 2 tbsp of parsley flakes.
22. You need 10 dash of ground black pepper.
23. It's 1 dash of ground nutmeg.
24. You need 3 packages of herb ox beef bouillon packets.
25. Prepare 1 cup of milk.

Tomato and Barley Vegetable Soup photo by Brian Hagiwara / Getty Images. A simple but hearty soup recipe filled with tomatoes, carrots, celery, onion, and spinach, this recipe is rounded out with high-fiber barley. I like to serve this homemade vegetable soup with a basket of grill cheese roll-ups! Fresh vegetable soup made with tons of veggies in a homemade tomato broth!

Homemade Vegetable Soup instructions

1. In big saucepan, heat up some olive oil.
2. Sauteed mushrooms, green onions, elephant ear garlic til you can really smell the mushrooms, about 3 to 5 minutes.
3. Add water, all spices, all herbs, all seasonings, chicken broth, all vegetables (everything BUT mashed potatoes and milk).
4. Bring to boil.
5. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer 30 minutes.
6. Remove 1 cup broth from soup and place in mixing bowl.
7. Add milk to mixing bowl.
8. Stir milk.
9. Add milk mixture to soup.
10. Stir.
11. Add instant mashed potatoes to soup.
12. Stir.
13. Return to boil til soup thickens.
14. Add water, stirring til desired thickness.
15. Serve.

Flavor variations for the best vegetable soup recipe: To make vegetable beef soup/ground beef vegetable soup, cook ground beef first and drain fat. Then, follow rest of the same steps. To make chicken vegetable soup, add some shredded rotisserie chicken or leftover grilled chicken pieces in the soup at the end. To make turkey vegetable soup, cook ground turkey first. Adding the asparagus at this stage of cooking, before adding any vegetable or chicken broth, ensures it gets nice and tender while caramelizing a bit.