{"id":2748,"date":"2019-11-26T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slimmingeats.com\/blog\/vegetable-soup"},"modified":"2024-01-25T04:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T09:20:20","slug":"vegetable-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimmingeats.com\/blog\/vegetable-soup","title":{"rendered":"Hearty Vegetable Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hearty Vegetable Soup with a delicious combination of flavours from golden potatoes, leeks, and other vegetables. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Healthy Filling Vegetable Soup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The combination of different vegetables, potato and herbs mean this is packed with yummy flavour too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saut\u00e9ing the Vegetables for Soup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It's an important process of making soup to really enhance the flavour, otherwise, your soup can end up pretty bland and tasteless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually, heaps of olive oil or similar would be used for this process, but to keep 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Types of Vegetables in Hearty Vegetable Soup<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the UK - Elfe potatoes are similar to Yukon Golds, but use a variety of waxy potato you can find. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are on a Slimming Eats 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sides for Hearty Vegetable Soup<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You love something to dunk in your soup, but don't have a Healthy Extra B spare for some bread, what do you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don't want to use some bread, then all these are great sides to serve alongside this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n