Healthy vegetables soup

 Ingredients:

2 tbsp. olive oil

2onion thinly sliced

100gm French beans, cut into half

1 large carrot, thinly sliced

1 stalk of celery, thinly sliced

½ cup olives sliced

½ cups  cooked dried navy beans

½ cup boiled chickpeas & green peas

1 cup of spinach, coarsely chopped

100gm lima beans cut in to half

1 small zucchini, chopped (you can add or replace any vegetables)
1/2 cup leftover cooked white rice ( optional)

100 g tomatoes

 2-3 garlic cloves, crushed

  2 tbsp. tomato puree

  1 green chilli chopped

Vegetable stock 4 cups

 1 cup pasta uncooked ( I have used penne pasta)

 1 tbsp. coriander leaves, chopped

 1 tsp. dried oregano

1 tbsp. dried Basil leaves

 salt as per the taste

black pepper

butter cubes (optional)

Method:

Cook the pasta & drain.

In a large pan, heat the olive oil.  Add garlic cloves & sauté for 1 min. Then Add  onion, carrot, beans, lima beans, olives, celery and sauté until until the vegetables are just tender.

In the mean time heat water in a pot. Add  the tomatoes in boiling water for 1 min, cool & then peel the skins and chop them in to big size pieces.

Now add the vegetable stock  , tomato puree, green chilies, salt and peeled tomatoes. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Add the cooked cheak peas, navy beans, green peas,  spinach, zucchini, basil and oregano and continue to cook for another 10 minutes.

Add paste & leftover rice to the soup. Cook for another few minutes.

Season with pepper. Sprinkle each bowl with 1 cube butter & garnish with coriander to serve.

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