Rich Veggie Soup
This is a simple, yet crazy delicious, soup method popular at the Ballymoe cooking school in Ireland. It uses a ratio, so you can adjust the size of your ‘parts’ to match how much soup you’d like to make. It uses a combination of sweated onions and potatoes, which give the soup a rich flavor base and creamy texture that makes it feel like a cream soup, but without the cream! You can easily adapt it to highlight almost any vegetable (or mix of veggies), such as carrots, peas, spinach, turnip greens, parsnips, etc. An important modification to consider would be to add green veggies only at the end, if you want a bright green soup (such as peas, asparagus, or spinach). Otherwise it would likely be an unappealing brown. Potatoes are a great choice for the highlighted vegetable as well as the base.
Prep Time
15minutes
Cook Time
45minutes
Prep Time
15minutes
Cook Time
45minutes
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Melt the butter a dutch oven or heavy-bottomed stock pot over medium-low heat.
  2. Add the onion, potatoes, and featured veggies that need to be cooked for a longer time (such as potatoes or root veggies). Season with salt and pepper.
  3. Put the lid on the pot, and cook, stirring often, until the onion and potatoes are sweated, but have not changed color.
  4. Add the liquid and any dried herbs you’re using, increase heat to medium-high, and bring to a boil, covered.
  5. Reduce to a low simmer, until potatoes and any root veggies are tender.
  6. Add fresh herbs (I used chives), and any green veggies, and simmer for another 3-5 minutes, depending on the herbs and veggies used.
  7. Use an immersion blender (or carefully transfer to a blender or food processor, probably in batches) to blend to desired consistency. It will be creamier and thicker, but obviously have fewer chunks, the more you blend.
  8. Adjust seasoning, and serve.
Recipe Notes

Consider garnishing with chopped fresh herbs, grated cheese, homemade croutons, toasted nuts or seeds, etc. to give an extra texture, visual, and flavor contrast.

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