I will be leaving France next week to go home, so I've been trying my best to 'eat out of the cupboards'. I had a few vegetables in the fridge that I'd already used some of in other dishes, that I decided to bung together to make a delicious Med Veg Soup.
I have a lot of onions to use before I go home, so I decided to put 2 onions in my soup. One was large, the other small.I also had around 3/4 of a large red pepper, 3/4 of a medium yellow pepper and half of a courgette.
I chopped up all my veggies roughly. It didn't matter too much how they were cut as I prefer smooth soup.
I began frying my onion in the smallest amount of E.V Olive Oil, just to soften them. I also added a teaspoon of easy garlic to add to the flavour.
On further inspection of the fridge, I found a pun net of plum tomatoes that needed using, so they were added to the list of ingredients!
Once the onion and garlic were cooked through, I added all of my vegetables to the pan, just so that they started to cook.
What a healthy looking pan! Once all of the ingredients were heated through, I popped them into my new Morphy Richards Soup Maker, a lovely gift from Lewis's Nan! (Thank you!)
I added two teaspoons of tomato puree....
...and 500ml of vegetable stock.
Just as I was about to turn it on, I decided to add a tin of chopped tomatoes for good measure. Then the soup maker got to work whilst I washed the dishes!
After 20 or so minutes, my soup was cooked and blended to perfection! And it was delicious.
The soup is really healthy and so easy to make. I didn't follow any recipe, I just used left over veg that needed to be eaten. This soup made 5 hearty portions, and I've only eaten it as soup, with crusty bread, but I think you could also use it as a tasty sauce to go with pasta, rice or even potatoes.
I hope you enjoy making it as much as I enjoyed eating it!
Bon appétit!
That soup maker looks so good!
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