Vegetable Soup Mix Ingredients:
Brown rice, onions, carrots, peppers, peas, beans, zucchini, corn, celery, pasta (enriched semolina flour) and herbs. No added salt, preservatives or MSG.
Allergen Information: This product contains wheat and eggs in the pasta only.
Recipe Additions:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced
8 cups chicken or vegetable broth
2 cups water, if adding turkey
Optional: leftover turkey meat, cut up
1 10-ounce box frozen or fresh sugar snap peas
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Vegetable Soup Recipe Directions:
- In a 4 quart pot, sauté garlic in oil and butter on low heat for 1 minute.
- Add vegetable soup mix and toss lightly.
- Add broth, turkey if desired and water.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 1 hour.
- Add pasta and simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
- Add lemon juice and peas.
- Turn off heat, and leave uncovered for 10 minutes before serving.
Crock Pot/Cooking Recipe Directions:
Recommended slow cooker: 4 quart
- In a skillet, sauté garlic and oil on low heat for 1 minute. Add vegetable contents of mix and toss lightly.
- Transfer sautéed ingredients to slow cooker. Add broth, turkey and water if desired. Stir well.
- Cover and cook on LOW 8 hours. This soup is better cooked 3-4 hours on HI.
- Turn up heat to HI and add peas, lemon juice and macaroni pasta. Cook 30 minutes and serve.
*This soup takes less than one and a half hours on stove top so the slow cooker does not offer great benefit in this preparation. |