Easy, Healthy vegetable & Bacon Soup
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 -2 bacon, bones
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 large onion
- 1 turnip
- 1 parsnip
- 1 zucchini
- 2 large potatoes
- 3 carrots
- 3 stalks celery, with the leaves
- 1 piece pumpkin, a good sized chunk,to taste
- 3⁄4 cup pearl barley or 3/4 cup barley soup mix
- 1 tablespoon instant bouillon granules
- salt and pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
directions
- Peel and chop all the vegetables to preferred sizes.
- Saute the onion in olive oil, add garlic after a few minutes.
- Add chopped celery and carrot and saute together until soft.
- Sprinkle in some stock powder and some water if it is sticking (it adds a lovely flavour when it scoops up all the crispy bits!) Add the bacon bones to about 1 liter of water and the stock powder.
- Bring to a boil, add all the vegetables, the soup mix and any further seasoning that you might like, like salt and pepper, mixed herbs, 1/2 tsp.
- chili flakes.
- Once it boils again, reduce the heat to low and allow it to simmer for about and hour to an hour and a half.
- Make sure you keep stirring now and then so the barley does not stick, and keep adding water as it reduces down.
- Remove the bacon bones, leaving all that lovely flavour-- I then pop the soup into the blender, puree until smooth and refrigerate after it has cooled overnight.
- Reheat the next day.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Scandigirl
Canada
<p>I'm Danish-Canadian! I immigrated to Canada in 1968 and lived in B.C. until 1979, then we had the wonderful opportunity to live in Hawaii for almost 3 years. We moved to Southern Ontario in 1982. Of profession, I'm a Doctor of Human Biochemistry, specializing in Nutrition, a Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine, and a Registered Nutrition Consultant Practitioner, I have my own full time practice. <br />My passion is cooking! I have tested and tried over 10.000 recipes over the last 30 years on my beloved husband who is now residing in a Long Term Facility with Dementia, so I have to make meals for one, healthy and simple. />My pet peeve is too much garlic in a creamy rich sauce. <br />My favourite cookbook is the one I have made myself over the past 40 years. <br />My interests are knitting Scandinavian socks, sweaters, reading. If I had a month off I would visit our adult children and 4 year old Granddaughter, who resides in British Columbia and Florida, and cook them their favorite meals.</p>