Garden Vegetable Soup

Jellyqueen's Note:

This is a great soup to eat for those of you who are dieting. It is free (0 points) on the weight watcher program. Full of good nutrition.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 2/3 cup sliced carrot
• 1/2 cup diced onion
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 cups fat-free broth (beef, chicken or vegetable)
• 1 1/2 cups diced green cabbage
• 1/2 cup green beans
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• 1 large tomato, diced
• 2 stalks celery, diced
• 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
• 1/3 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup diced zucchini

Directions:

1. In large saucepan that has be sprayed with pam, saute the carrot, onion, garlic and celery about 5 minutes.
2. Add broth.
3. Add cabbage, beans tomato paste, tomato, basil, oregano and salt.
4. Bring to a boil.
5. Lower heat and simmer 20 minutes, or until beans are tender.
6. Stir in zucchini and heat for 5 minutes more.
7. Serve hot.

Reviews

[Charishma_Ramchandani]

This is an amazingly good flavoured soup! I used Maggi vegetable broth with onions for the broth that I prepared by dissolving 2 cubes of Maggi Veg broth in 3 cups of water and boiling it till the cubes dissolved completely. The only ingredient I did not have on hand was zucchini, so I had to leave that out. I did not have dried basil on hand, so I used 4-5 small leaves of fresh basil from my garden instead{After all, this is 'Garden vegetable soup';-)]. For the tomato paste, I used 1 small tomato that gave me about 3 tbsps. of paste. This soup was part of our lunch this afternoon and it went very well. I might have it again for dinner;-) Thank you very much for sharing!

[gorillawarfare]

This was incredible! My father says that it was the best vegetable soup he'd ever had. Mom was blown away that it was so good on the first day!

I didn't use zucchini because there wasn't any available, and I forgot tomato paste. I also didn't use cabbage. I added some red peppers and a ton of potatoes, too! If you cube them really small, they cook fine. So good!

[Jenny Sanders]

Very nice soup, and best of all, with a couple of small arepas (thick corn torillas) I figure lunch checked in at about 300 calories. I am still feeling quite full in the middle of the afternoon. I didn't have green beans so I put in some broccoli instead, and I wasn't too precise about measuring anything. Easy and flexible, and surprisingly filling.