Cannelini Vegetable Soup
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 60 minutes
Servings: 16
This vegetable soup is very tasty. It freezes well.
Ingredients
1c. chopped onions
1c. chopped carrots
1 c. chopped celery
1c. chopped yellow bell pepper
3 cloves garlic, smashed
1 c. green beans, chopped into 1/2 inch segments
1 tsp. fresh thyme
1 bay leaf
1 tsp. black pepper
Organic Sea Salt, to taste
2 T. olive oil
4c. organic chicken stock
4 c. Italian plum tomatoes (I use my own canned tomatoes)
2c. cannelini beans with starcy liquid (I precook about 3/4 c. of dried organic cannelini beans according to package recipe)
4 c. chopped kale or cabbage
Directions
Saute the onions, carrots and celery in olive oil for about 5 minutes at medium heat. Add the red pepper, garlic, green beans, kale or cabbage and herbs and saute about another 5 minutes, until vegetables are softened. Add herbs and black pepper. Raise heat and add chicken stock, plum tomatoes, cannelini beans with residual starchy liquid. Simmer for another 30 minutes. Makes 4 quarts of soup.




