Vegetable Bean Soup
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This vegan soup is the quickest, easiest and most crowd pleasing ever! It's made with 5 basic ingredients plus olive oil & seasonings. Sometimes we puree it a lot, sometimes a little, sometimes not at all. Sometimes we eat it as it, other times we add gluten-free ditalini pasta to it. Some like it garnished with corn. It's delicious all ways!
Author: Healthy Gluten-Free Family
Recipe type: Soups, Dinner, Veggies
Cuisine: Gluten-Free, Vegan
Serves: 5-6 servings
Ingredients
- 2-3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large onion or approximately 2 cups, chopped
- 1 cup chopped carrots
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 2 cup water (approximately)
- 1 750 g (26.46 oz) box Pomi strained or crushed tomatoes
- 2 15oz cans cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- ¾ to 1 teaspoon salt, depending on tastes
Instructions
- In a medium sauce pan, heat olive oil until shimmering, not burning.
- Add onion, carrots and celery and saute until soft, onions will be translucent, approximately 15 minutes. You can't over cook the veggies in this soup, the softer they are, the more flavorful they are. You especially want to make sure the carrots cook up! Pro Tip: To speed up the overall cook time, cook the veggies longer. Even consider adding carrots & celery first, cooking 5 minutes, then adding onions and sauteing an additional 10-15 minutes. The more tender the veggies now, the quicker the soup will be ready!
- Add garlic powder, salt and pepper and stir in well.
- Add beans, strained tomatoes and water (start with 1 cup), and stir well (you may need to add more water as it cooks up if it seems too thick)
- Let simmer on low heat for 30 -45 minutes, or longer. Add water as needed to get desired consistency.
- If desired, use a hand blender directly in the sauce pan and puree the soup (that is the way my son loves it)
- Serve as is or separately prepare gluten free ditalini (small pastas, we like Le Veneziane gluten-free ditalini)
- If serving with ditalini, put a large scoop of ditalini in each bowl, followed by the soup
Recommendations if I don’t have a hand blender? I’m looking forward to trying this recipe!
We made it last week without blending it at all and it was great! We used to blend it more when the kids were young and they preferred it that way 🙂 Let me know if you try!
Not able to eat much tomato based so thinking I will most add veggie broth or more water … maybe add some lentils??
Great question! I’ve never made this with anything other than tomatoes but I think a mix of veggie broth and lentils could work? Wouldn’t taste the same sounds like it would be tasty