Perfect Pea Soup
This soup is so delicious and surpasses any canned pea soup I've tried. Very easy to make with well priced ingredients if you are on a budget!
Ingredients:
Instructions: In a large pot, pour canola oil and sauté onion for about 5 minutes. Add the peas and toast a few minutes. Add remaining ingredients and simmer for approximately 2 hours. Towards the end of cooking time, stir frequently as soup thickens since it has a tendency to stick to the pot. |
Kale, Tomato and Bean Soup
Ingredients:
Instructions: In a large pot, heat olive oil. Add garlic and onion and sauté until soft. Add the kale and let it wilt. Add 3 cups stock, tomatoes, 1 can of drained beans, Italian seasoning and salt & pepper to the pot. Stir thoroughly and simmer for 5-10 minutes. In a blender, combine remaining stock with 1 can of drained beans and blend until smooth. Add the bean mixture to the pot and let the soup simmer for 20-30 minutes. |
Homemade Chicken Soup (with bone broth) - Picture to come soon!
Because everyone needs a staple chicken soup recipe. The next time you cook a whole chicken for a Sunday meal*(instructions below), keep the bones and broth. What you do with it next will knock your soup socks off!
Ingredients:
Instructions: In a large pot, add the chicken bones, the chicken broth at the bottom of the roasting pan (discard the veggies), 3-4 cups of chicken stock (to bulk up your soup) and boil/simmer for 30-45 minutes. This creates your bone broth! Strain out the bones and place your broth back into the large pot. Add carrots, celery, cubed chicken and rice. Simmer until the carrots and celery are soft and the rice is fully cooked. Season with salt, pepper and onion powder to taste. Now it's time to enjoy your very own homemade chicken soup! I love this process and soup so much, that it makes me sad to discard the bones from a cooked chicken. I even freeze bones to have them on hand to make soup when I have a spare moment. It's the little things in life :) *Prepare your cooked whole chicken as described above. Place a bed of 1 carrot, 1 rib of celery and 1/2 onion and 3-4 cups of water on the bottom of your roasting pan and cook the chicken at 350 degrees until fully cooked through (takes between 1-1.5 hours depending on the size, use meat thermometer for perfectly cooked chicken!) Once the chicken is cooked, cool until you are able to handle it with your hands. Take most of the meat off the bones and set aside. |