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Home » Super Soups » Easy Chunky Vegetable Soup

Easy Chunky Vegetable Soup

Author: Karon Grieve Published : November 2014

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chunky vegetable soup
chunky vegetable soup
chunky vegetable soup

Some things stay with you all your life. Foodie memories like this chunky vegetable soup will take me home to Scotland and my parent’s house every time I taste it. It’s hearty and flavourful and oh so filling, everything a good soup should be.

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What’s to love about this soup recipe?

  • This chunky vegetable soup is super healthy and gives you lots of vitamins in one bowl
  • Use almost any vegetables you like in this chunky vegetable soup recipe, get creative!
  • This is a super easy chunky vegetable soup recipe and we all love an easy recipe don’t we!

Soup is comfort food and this vegetarian easy chunky vegetable soup is a hug in a mug, or bowl!

side view of bowl of vegetable soup

Ingredients for this vegetable soup

Very often my soup making forays are merely a matter of foraging in the fridge and larder for bits and pieces I can throw together and hope to achieve a pot of pleasure that ticks lots of veggie boxes and feel-good ingredients too.

This chunky vegetable soup is typical of my kitchen hunting, it showcases the last singletons in the fridge;

that solo carrot, the last stick of celery, the lonesome leek and a courgette that just has to be used today.

I always have leafy greens like salad and kale lurking, so toss a couple of handfuls of kale in as well. A search under the sink produces a small onion and some garlic, one clove will be just fine.

The larder gives the other ingredients like a tin of tomatoes and a couple of spoonfuls of puree, some paprika, balsamic vinegar, a stock cube (I’ve used a vegetable one, though you can use chicken of course, the choice is yours) and some olive oil to start things off.

When all is done and cooked and created I will look to the windowsill and harvest the last of that basil plant and parsley to add that extra kick of flavour in the last few minutes of cooking. Then when ladled into a bowl and ready to eat I shall sprinkle on some parmesan shavings for my fridge is never without this flavoursome treat.

top down close up of vegetable soup

Hearty and simple

There is no delicacy in preparation or presentation with this simple chunky vegetable soup. It is rustic and hearty, full of goodness and character and does not require any sort of prettiness to sell itself as seriously good food.

Like the very best of people its goodness comes from within.

When the day starts grey and cold this is the soup to make to welcome home your family at the end of the day with great taste, colour and sheer goodness, and if you are holed up in the house on your own this one really is one hell of a hug in a mug!

spoonful of veg soup

Serving this soup

This chunky vegetable soup is a meal in itself with a good piece of crunch rustic bread. I like to add some shavings of Parmesan cheese and a few leaves of parsley and basil on top.

Soup storage

This chunky vegetable soup will keep for up to 4 days in the fridge and freezes well too for up to 6 months.

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Looking for more tasty soup recipes? Then check these out before you go;

Rich and creamy garlic mushroom soup

Quick and easy tomato and mascarpone soup

Broccoli and stilton soup

Curried cauliflower potato and kale soup

Spiced carrot and cauliflower soup

Traditional 5 ingredient Scottish cock-a-leekie soup

French Puy lentil soup

Scottish classic Cullen Skink soup

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side view of bowl of vegetable soup

Easy Chunky Vegetable Soup

Karon Grieve
A hearty simple easy chunky vegetable soup and a great way to use up all those bits and pieces in the fridge
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 40 mins
Total Time 50 mins
Course Soup
Cuisine Scottish
Servings 4 people
Calories 151 kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 small onion chopped
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 1 courgette chopped
  • 1 carrot chopped
  • 1 stick stick celery chopped
  • 1 leek white and green parts
  • 600 ml vegetable stock or chicken stock
  • 400 g tinned tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp tomato puree
  • 2 handfulls kale
  • 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  • 2 tbsp basil chopped
  • 2 tbsp parsley chopped
  • 1 tbsp parmesan shavings to serve
  • salt and papper to taste
Metric – US Customary

Instructions
 

  • Heat the oil gently in a large pan and add the chopped oinion.
  • Cook for 3 minutes then add the garlic for another 2 minutes.
  • Add the courgette, carrot, leek and celery and cook for 10 minutes more.
  • Pour in the vegetable stock, tomatoes and puree and stir to mix and add the kale.
  • Cover the pot and let it all simmer for 20 minutes.
  • Add the smoked paprika and balsamic vinegar and season to taste.
  • Toss in the fresh herbas and cook for just 5 minutes more.
  • Serve with shavings of parmesan cheese and a few extra herb leaves.

Notes

Vegetarian, Gluten Free (if using gluten free stock cube)

Nutrition

Calories: 151kcalCarbohydrates: 19gProtein: 4gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 777mgPotassium: 602mgFiber: 4gSugar: 10gVitamin A: 3997IUVitamin C: 27mgCalcium: 89mgIron: 2mg
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