Vegetable-Rice Soup

yewoinfamilycooking's Note:

This is one of my favorite soup recipes that I cook for my family during Lent.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 tomato (seeded, diced)
• 2 scallions (chopped) or 2 green onions (chopped)
• 2 stalk celery (chopped)
• 2 carrots (peeled, chopped)
• 236.59 ml cauliflower (cut into small florets)
• 1 sweet pepper (seeded and diced)
• 59.16 ml extra virgin olive oil
• 44.37 ml white rice
• 4.92 ml fresh basil (diced)
• 1 zucchini (chopped)
• 2.46 ml fresh parsley (diced)
• 2.46 ml fresh garlic (minced)
• 1419.54 ml water or 1419.54 ml vegetable stock
• 1.23 ml black pepper
• salt

Directions:

1. In cooking pot, sauté carrots, celery, scallion, cauliflower with 2 tablespoon of oil and garlic till tender.
2. Add the vegetable stock or water; 2 tablespoons of oil and boil it for 5 minutes.
3. To the boiling vegetables, add rice, zucchini, sweet pepper, basil and parsley.
4. In a medium heat, cook the soup for 45 minutes; add black pepper and salt.
5. Serve it hot.
6. P.S. if you are not on Lent or a vegan, you may add cream or plain yogurt. If you prefer spicy soup, you may add chili powder (berbere) or tabasco.

Reviews

[berrycute]

This is a delicious healthy recipe! It was a hit with my family and we all enjoyed it. I added broccoli instead of cauliflower, substituted 1/2 teaspoon of dried basil instead of fresh basil. I used 8 cups of water with 3 knorrs vegetable bouillon cubes and I used 1/2 cup of rice. I probably would cook the rice separate next time because mine started falling apart. Thanks for the amazing recipe!

[Bergy]

I made this recipe as one of my three Pick A Chef recipes. for yewoinfamilycooking Undiscovered chef. Excellent soup so rich in flavor & vegetables. Very healthy recipe We really enjoyed it