Hearty Vegetable Soup with a delicious combination of flavours from golden potatoes, leeks, and other vegetables.
Healthy Filling Vegetable Soup
Soon as the colder months set in, filling soups like this Hearty Vegetable Soup is a regular on my menu. It's a great way to get lots of good vegetables into a meal and is a dish that the kids will definitely enjoy too.
They can be funny ones at times, not so keen on plain veggies on their plate, but add them to something like soup and they will devour the lot with no complaints.
The combination of different vegetables, potato and herbs mean this is packed with yummy flavour too.
Sautéing the Vegetables for Soup
It's an important process of making soup to really enhance the flavour, otherwise, your soup can end up pretty bland and tasteless.
Usually, heaps of olive oil or similar would be used for this process, but to keep syns/points down we use spray oil and then the clever trick of using a little bit of stock and reducing it down around the vegetables until they are softened and you get that naturally sweetened flavour of the vegetables.
You don't want those vegetables to burn as that will make the soup bitter. It's a process that needs patience and trust me the flavour will be immense.
Types of Vegetables in Hearty Vegetable Soup
In this soup, we use onion, garlic, celery, leeks and carrots along with potato. The type of potato really matters. Don't use floury varieties, as otherwise, they will disintegrate into the soup. Instead, you want a waxy variety of potatoes. My absolute favourite type is Yukon Golds, they have a lovely yellowy colour and an almost buttery flavour.
In the UK - Elfe potatoes are similar to Yukon Golds, but use a variety of waxy potato you can find.
If you are on a Slimming World SP day or want to make this zero WW Flex/Freestyle Smart Points, then you can swap out the potato for butternut squash. It will give the soup a sweeter flavour, but it's still really filling and delicious.
Sides for Hearty Vegetable Soup
You love something to dunk in your soup, but don't have a Healthy Extra B spare for some bread, what do you do?
If you don't want to use some syns on some bread, then all these are great sides to serve alongside this:
- CHEDDAR BUTTER BEAN BITES
- BROCCOLI CHEDDAR HASH BROWN MUFFINS
- SWEET POTATO HASH BROWNS
- CRISPY GOLDEN HASH BROWNS
- CHEESY SWEET POTATO AND ZUCCHINI BITES
- OVEN BAKED FALAFEL
- PORK SAUSAGE BREAKFAST PATTIES
- CHEESY COUSCOUS BITES WITH TOMATO DIP
or another great option is to top with some cooked protein, like fish, leftover chicken, chunks of ham or even top with some cooked chickpeas (for this I just sauteed some drained canned chickpeas in a frying pan with a little sea salt and paprika and spray oil until warmed)
This recipe was originally created on 28 November 2010 and updated on the 26 November 2019
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Hearty Vegetable Soup with a delicious combination of flavours from golden potatoes, leeks, and other vegetables. This recipe is gluten free, dairy free, vegan (vegetarian), Slimming World and Weight Watchers friendly *SUITABLE FOR FREEZING As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.Hearty Vegetable Soup
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Serving Size 1 SERVING
Amount Per Serving
Calories 117Total Fat 0.3gSodium 588mgCarbohydrates 27.9gFiber 5.1gSugar 8.1gProtein 3.4g
This looks beautiful and delicious!
Hi,soup was lovely thank you how do I print the recipes now? I used to just copy them on to a word doc but this page wont let me.
Thanks
Liz
made this soup for lunch using butternut squash, really quite good, my toddler liked it as well. will puree rest and freeze into portions. now for dinner creamy pork casserole to use up left over squash.
have planned dinners and lunches for the next 7 days. tommorrow is chicken and spinach curry.
Made this today as trying to find things to keep me going on 12 hour shifts and getting as much speed food as possible, this was delicious, a lot nicer then any tinned soup and my fiancé asked for more!
Made this yesterday was lovely will be doing it again thanks
Thanks for recipe would you use Maris Piper or new potatoes (UK)
Used sweet potato instead and it was so delicious.
Made this for lunch today but used onion, potato, carrot and sweet potato. Also I like to have something to chew or I don’t feel full so I used a potato masher just to blend it slightly. It’s amazing. Thankyou for the recipe x
Made this yesterday and added some cabbage, swede and some leftover chicken and had it with some homemade bread.
Delicious