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Hearty vegetable soup

Hearty vegetable soup recipe

This recipe is a fast flavourful hearty vegetable soup with pasta and a big splash of balsamic vinegar that you can have on the table in half an hour. Find more on Kidspot New Zealand's recipe finder

Category:

Budget, Dinner, Healthy, Pasta, Soups

Ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 4 bacon shortcut rashers, diced
  • 1 zucchini, diced
  • 1 carrot, diced
  • 3 celery sticks, sliced
  • 1/2 cauliflower, chopped
  • 400g tin diced tomatoes
  • 1L salt-reduced beef stock
  • 1 cup dried macaroni pasta
  • 1 handful of parsley, chopped
  • 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
  • salt and pepper

Method:

Heat olive oil in a soup pot and fry bacon, onion and garlic for 3 minutes.

Add the carrot, celery, zucchini and cauliflower. Fry for 5 minutes until the vegetables start to brown.

Add the stock, tomatoes and enough water to cover the vegetables. Bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes.

Add the pasta and cook for 10 minutes until pasta is tender.

Add parsley and balsamic vinegar. Season to taste.

Notes

This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand's best recipe finder.