Vegan Barley Soup

"Thick, rich and flavorful! You won't miss the beef at all!"
 
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Ready In:
1hr 20mins
Ingredients:
11
Serves:
6
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ingredients

  • 6 tablespoons fine barley, uncooked
  • 6 cups vegan vegetable stock
  • 8 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 1 large onion, sliced
  • 1 large carrot, scrubbed and sliced into rounds
  • 1 medium parsnip, scraped and cut into rounds
  • 1 large yellow potato, chopped
  • 1 (32 ounce) can of organic tomatoes with juice (crushed or diced)
  • fresh ground pepper, to taste
  • 1 head mustard greens (or cress, whatever) or 1 head kale, roughly chopped (or cress, whatever)
  • 4 tablespoons Braggs liquid aminos
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directions

  • Rinse barley breifly in a fine mesh strainer and throw the barley in a pot. Cover it with 3 to 4 cups of water and boil.
  • Meanwhile, wash and cut veggies.
  • When barley has finished, drain it in the mesh strainer, but do not rinse it.
  • Add veggies to the pot along with vegetable stock and garlic. Boil until veggies are begining to get tender (30 - 40 minutes).
  • Add tomatoes, barley, ground pepper and greens and bring to a boil.
  • When greens have wilted, removed from heat. Just before eating, stir in Bragg's liquid aminos.

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Reviews

  1. This was wonderful! I actually cheated and just threw all the ingredients into the pot and boiled them together for about 35 minutes to perfection. I did add extra water and some general no salt seasoning. I also subbed out kholrabi for the parsnip and potato - they were wonderful in here and I think that any of the turnip family would be a great addition to this "stew" type soup. Thanks for sharing!!!
     
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