Cooking Soup ~ Delicious Vegetable Soup

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Cooking Soup ~ Delicious Vegetable Soup

This soup is a recipe my mother cooks and has done since I was a child. These days I cook it as well. It freezes really well and  is tasty and thick and full of vegetables. I remember this soup as being something I looked forward to in the winter as a child. My mum served it with hot buttered toast cut in “fingers”. Mum always bought beef shin on the bone to use for the stock of the soup and then just adding in the other vegetables. Because I wasn’t much of a vegetable eater she used to “hide” veges in the soup. Here is the recipe for you.

Ingredients:

Beef shin on the bone if possible

Carrots

Parsnips

Pearl Barley

Onions

Chicken stock powder

Ketchup or BBQ sauce

Now:

Using a food processor chop or grate all the vegetables up till they are really small.

Add them to a pot full of hot water along with the stock powder, barley and the beef.

Simmer stirring occasionally for about 2 hrs till the meat is falling off the bone and the vegetables are all cooked.

Let the soup cool, the take the meat out and cut it up getting rid of the fat and the bones.

Now pop it back in the soup again. Serve and enjoy!

As I said this soup freezes really well. You can add any vegetables you like to this soup and I really like to add diced potatoes to it.

If you don’t like the texture of the soup you could change it by processing it when it is cold and making it smooth.

Another Soup my mother used to make in New Zealand was Tomatoe Soup. In the sunner tomatoes were very plentiful. In fact in the peak of the season you used to be able to buy a box of gorgeous tomatoes for $1. Mum used to peel and puree these tomotes and make soup that was basically just tomatoes nothing else except for some sugar and salt. She would preserve this soup and we could east it in the winter which would give up heaps of vitamin C. She would serve it up steaming hot with a dob of butter in it YUM!