How To Make Garden Vegetable Soup

Chef Bernard Mintz shows you how to make a fresh and flavourful soup with a range of garden vegetables. Perfect for lunch or dinner in summer or winter! Enlarge

How To Make Garden Vegetable Soup

Chef Bernard Mintz shows you how to make a fresh and flavourful soup with a range of garden vegetables. Perfect for lunch or dinner in summer or winter!

Cook:
25m
Total:
25m
Serves:
2

Ingredients

  • 30 g butter
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 white onion, chopped
  • 1 leek, chopped
  • 2 sticks celery, chopped
  • 3 carrots, chopped
  • 1/4 head of cauliflower, chopped
  • 50 g cherry tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 plain flour
  • 2 tsp tomato paste
  • 750 ml chicken stock

Method

Melt the butter in a large pan. Add the garlic and cook off slightly. Add the chopped vegetables, place a lid on the pan and sweat the vegetables for around 5 minutes.

Stir through a tablespoon of plain flour and 2 teaspoons of tomato paste to thicken the soup. Add the stock and a pinch of chopped parsley. Mix it in and cook the mixture with a lid on for around 20 minutes, until all the vegetables are tender.