This easy tomato vegetable soup, a plant-based, vegan and oil-free recipe is easily adaptable to your favorite vegetables. It's comforting when you have a cold or on a rainy day. Serve with crusty bread.
The basic recipe for this vegetable soup is so simple and extremely versatile. It's truly a "kitchen sink" recipe. Throw in whatever you've got on hand to make this comforting plant-based, vegan, oil-free soup.
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🧄 Ingredient notes
The ingredients you'll need for the base of this tomato vegetable soup are:
- onion
- celery
- carrot
- garlic (fresh and granulated garlic)
- Italian seasoning
- tomato paste
- diced tomato (canned or fresh)
The vegetables and other ingredients are:
- corn (frozen, fresh or canned)
- green beans
- zucchini
- yellow squash
🔄 Variations
This soup is easily adaptable. Start with the tomato soup base and then add whatever vegetables or other ingredients you have on hand. Anything but the kitchen sink!
Try adding these plant-based ingredients to change it up:
- potatoes
- rice
- small pasta, like alphabet (great for kids or young at heart), small shells, macaroni, rotini, farfalle
- bell peppers
- mushrooms
- kidney beans
- cannellini beans
- chickpeas
- lentils
- roasted bell peppers
- kale
- spinach
- swiss chard
- butternut squash
- asparagus
- cauliflower
- broccoli
- roasted garlic
- leeks
- green peas
- barley
💭 Tips
You can make this veggie soup in a stockpot on the stove, in a slow cooker or in your pressure cooker. I have given instructions below for stovetop preparation.
Is this soup good for weight loss?
Yes. Since this recipe is oil-free and full of low calorie dense vegetables, it's great for plant-based weight loss. You could use this tomato vegetable soup as your non-starchy veggies on a 50/50 plate. Just be sure not to add starches to the soup, if you'd like for it to be your non-starchy vegetable side.
If you do add starches, like potato, pasta, rice, beans or corn, then you can eat this soup as your entire meal.
Does vegetable soup freeze well?
Yes! Store cooled soup in mason jars or other freezable air tight containers and fill soup ¾ full. Label and freeze for up to 3 months.
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🗺 Cultural influences
Anytime we're under the weather, I make a vat of this easy vegetable soup to cure what ails us. It's loaded with good stuff and healing herbs and spices.
Years ago, my 2nd mom showed me how to make her incredible chicken vegetable soup. It was the soup she would make with whatever veggies she had on hand and in the freezer, some chicken, italian seasonings and half a jug of vegetable juice.
If she had leftover green beans or rice or corn or whatever from dinner one night, she would put them in freezer. Then, when it was time to make the soup, she pulled everything out and tossed it in!
I've adapted it to be this plant-based version and it's our go-to soup recipe.
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📖 Recipe
Easy Tomato Vegetable Soup
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 large sweet onion diced
- 8 stalks celery diced
- 2 cups carrot diced
- 5 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tablespoons dried Italian seasoning
- 1 tablespoon granulated garlic
- 2 cups green beans fresh or frozen, sliced into 2 inch pieces if not already cut
- 12 ounces corn kernels frozen or canned
- 30 ounces diced tomatoes canned
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- 1 zucchini quartered lengthwise and cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 yellow squash quartered lengthwise and cut into 1 inch pieces
- sea salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Fill your pot halfway with water (about 3 quarts) and turn on high. Then, add the onion, celery, carrot, garlic, Italian seasonings and granulated garlic, stir and bring to a boil.1 large sweet onion, 8 stalks celery, 2 cups carrot, 5 cloves garlic, 2 tablespoons dried Italian seasoning, 1 tablespoon granulated garlic
- Turn heat down to medium low and simmer ingredients until the onion is mostly translucent.
- Add green beans, corn, tomatoes and tomato paste (and any beans, uncooked white rice or other non-tender veggies you want to use at this point) and turn heat to medium. Bring to a low boil and cook for about 10 minutes.2 cups green beans, 12 ounces corn kernels, 30 ounces diced tomatoes, 6 ounces tomato paste
- Add zucchini, squash, salt and pepper and cook for 5-9 minutes. (If you're going to add small pasta, already cooked rice or any other tender veggie, this would be when to add it.)1 zucchini, 1 yellow squash, sea salt, black pepper
- Taste and adjust seasonings, as needed. The soup is done with the vegetables are tender and any grains/pasta that has been added is cooked through.
- Serve piping hot by itself or with crusty whole grain bread or crackers.
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