Name: Vegetable soup
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1 brown onion, diced; 6 cloves garlic, sliced; 2 carrots, diced; 2 sticks celery, diced; 1 green capsicum, diced; 2L vegetable stock; 400g can diced tomatoes; 2 zucchini, diced; 1 cup diced pumpkin; 400g can four-bean mix or cannellini beans; Sea-salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper, to season; 1 cup frozen peas; 2 cups shredded green cabbage; 2 tsp za-atar, plus extra, to serve; Garlic bread, to serve

Vegetable soup

Ditch the hours of simmering for this fast, flavourful and filling soup.

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Serves 4

Prep

10M

Cook

25M

Total

35M

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While we’re getting to the end of winter, it’s still time to indulge in the last of the warming comfort foods and Fast Ed has you sorted with a simple vegetable soup. It’s full of fresh vegies and is lighter than heavy creamy soups, but it doesn’t lack flavour. Ed teaches you how to use those vegies you still have sitting in the crisper that may normally go to waste and along with a few staples from the pantry to hit the spot. This is an easy but delicious midweek meal.

Ingredients

2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 brown onion, diced

6 cloves garlic, sliced

2 carrots, diced

2 sticks celery, diced

1 green capsicum, diced

2L vegetable stock

400g can diced tomatoes

2 zucchini, diced

1 cup diced pumpkin

400g can four-bean mix or cannellini beans

Sea-salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper, to season

1 cup frozen peas

2 cups shredded green cabbage

2 tsp za-atar, plus extra, to serve

Garlic bread, to serve

Method

Heat oil in a large saucepan on medium. Cook onion and garlic

for 5 minutes, until softened. Add carrot, celery, capsicum, stock and tomatoes, then bring to a simmer.

Mix in zucchini, pumpkin band beans, then cook for 10 minutes, until pumpkin is just softened. Season, then stir in peas, cabbage and za-atar, and cook until cabbage is just wilted. Serve sprinkled with extra za-atar, with garlic bread on the side.

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'Fast' Ed Halmagyi is one of Australia’s best-loved TV chefs and food authors. For over a decade, Ed has appeared on television and radio, in newspapers, magazines and books.

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