Basic Soup - juliennesuppe - Minestrone - Vegetable Soup

July 12, 2017

Basic Vegetable Soup © kvalifood.com

Video Recipe - Basic soup / julienne soup is a simple vegetable soup which is very similar to the Italian minestrone. With a few changes it IS a minestrone. But I do usually this simpler version, and I’ll just throw in whatever extra ingredients to spice it up a bit.

Ingredients

1 ½ l stock (vegetable , chicken , or fake-stock)
1 carrot
1 onion
2 stalks celery
1 potato
1 leek
25 g butter (or oil)
1 bunch parsley.
1 tsp salt (depending on the salt in your stock. The fake-stock are usually salty enough.)
pepper, to taste

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL7YzpxfFRM

Directions

Cut the leeks as thinly as possible.

Slice all the remaining vegetables into julienne .

Brown the vegetables lightly in the butter/oil.

Let simmer for 20 minutes until the vegetables are tender without being soft.

Notes

Instead of celery, you can use 1 parsnip, parsley or 1 1/4 celeriac root.

There are plenty of opportunities to add more flavor and fillings. Just cut it into julienne and cook it along:

Additional Fillings

cooked pasta from the day before. Just heat it up in the soup.
noodles should cooked in for the last minutes (read the package for how long.)
potato cubes, approx. 1 cm (½ inch).
green beans.
canned beans / chickpeas without liquid.
peas
corn
cabbage / china cabbage / bok choy / iceberg lettuce (cabbage should be put in from the start, the other thinner kind of greens just has warmed up a few minutes.)
herbs / spices
thyme
coriander
a bit tarragon
2 cloves of garlic
1 thumb ginger
1 small chili
grated zest / lemongrass into small cubes.
meat
Lightly fried bacon / black forest ham or bacon in julienne
meatballs
shrimp (just warmed up)
tiger prawn (deshell and cook until the last minute or two. until they are just pink.)