Hi friends! I’ve got another simple soup recipe for you guys today! Let’s face it: cooking anything in the winter needs to be easy, because honestly it already takes enough for me to move away from the comfort of the couch and a warm blanket. You guys know I hate the cold, so a nice warm soup recipe like this Easy Vegan Minestrone is about the only thing I’ll get up to make. Well, that’s a lie. I actually have plenty of delicious plant based soup recipes on my blog, and they are all super easy and super healthy. Some of my favorites are:
- Vegan Lasagna Soup
- Creamy Taco Soup
- White Bean Kale Soup
- Creamy Wild Rice Soup
- Plant Based Broccoli Cheddar Soup
There are plenty more easy vegan soup recipes on my blog, simply search: soup, and they’ll pop up! These soup recipes are all healthy and plant based, and pressure cooker friendly! If you haven’t invested in a pressure cooker, I would seriously recommend you look into a Ninja Foodi. I use this kitchen gadget daily, and it speeds up soup cooking time like crazy!
How to eat healthy during the winter months:
It’s important that we nourish our bodies throughout the entire year, but if you’re anything like me then you find this much harder to do during the winter than in the summer. It’s so easy to eat fresh produce and fruit in the summer, because so many things are in season. However in the winter it seems everywhere you go there’s comfort food and holiday treats. To make things worse when you finally find a healthy recipe it takes a million steps to complete, which nobody wants to do. Luckily this Easy Vegan Minestrone Soup is both healthy and easy.
This recipe contains a variety of vegetables, and incorporates bean based pasta for a plant based protein boost. With the combination of high volume vegetables and the protein from the beans you will have a perfect healthy and filling dish.
Ingredients for this Easy Vegan Minestrone Soup Recipe:
- Bean based pasta
- Spinach
- Carrots
- Potatoes
- Vegetable broth
- Celery
- Mushrooms
- Kidney beans
- Diced tomatoes
- Tomato paste
- Oregano
- Thyme
- Basil
- Miso paste
- Nutritional yeast
- Onion
- Garlic
Easy Vegan Minestrone Soup
Equipment
- 1 Pressure Cooker optional
Ingredients
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- 1 can unsalted diced tomatoes
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 4 carrots
- 3 stalks celery
- 2 russet potatoes
- 1 onion
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1 container bean based pasta
- 1 15.4oz can kidney beans
- 2 cups mushrooms of choice
- 1 handful spinach
- 2 tsp nutritional yeast
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 cup fresh basil
- 1 tsp miso paste
Instructions
- Begin by dicing and mincing your onions and garlic and adding to a pot of water. Chop the celery and carrots and add. Slice the mushrooms and roughly chop the potatoes and add to the pot.
- Add the diced tomatoes and tomato paste. Add vegetable broth and remaining ingredients and cook on medium for 30 minutes. Serve and enjoy!
- If you have a pressure cooker, you can simply add all ingredients at once and cook on high for 15 minutes!
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