This recipe for creamy vegetable soup is a perfect midweek lunch for cold days

Simple, wholesome and nourishing, vegetable soup is the perfect choice to warm your belly in winter

Vegetable soup is the perfect lunch on a chilly afternoon

Vegetable soup

recipe by:Darina Allen

Following the Ballymaloe soup formula (1:1:3:5), this versatile soup is smooth, hearty and bursting with flavour

Servings

6

Preparation Time

 10 mins

Cooking Time

 20 mins

Total Time

 30 mins

Course

 Starter

Ingredients

• 50g butter

• 150g potatoes, peeled and diced

• 110g onions, peeled and diced

• 340g chopped vegetables of your choice, diced

• 1.2l stock or 1l stock and 150ml creamy milk

• seasoning

Method

1. Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan.

2. When it foams, add potatoes and onions and turn them until well coated. Sprinkle with salt and freshly ground pepper. Cover with a butter wrapper or paper lid and the lid of the saucepan.

3. Sweat on a gentle heat for 10 minutes. Add the vegetables and stock, bring it back to the boil and continue to cook until soft, and liquidise. Do not overcook or the vegetables will lose their flavour. Adjust seasoning.

 

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