Mixed Vegetable Soup Recipe

Bridal showers are a coming together of many people who are related to the bride in some way or the other. These people come from all walks of life and are of all ages and the bridal shower food needs to reflect the same.

While your bridal shower guest list could include some flamboyant personalities who may have a taste for sparkly champagne, there may also be loads of others with far simpler tastes (more often than not this latter kind of crowd makes up the vast majority of your bridal shower). There may be great aunts of the blushing bride pushing their eighties or even nineties and for whom mock tails, cocktails and sizzlers could be a bit too much. Similarly, there may be a lot of children who come along with their moms to the bridal shower and there has to be some entry included on the menu which would be appropriate to feed them. The very first dish fulfilling these criteria and which springs to mind like a jack in the box? Quick and easy vegetable soup!

That’s right.. vegetable soup, however common and pedestrian it may seem to serve at a fancy event like a bridal shower, is also a necessity, as it acts as an extremely reliable safe net when it comes to incredibly picky eaters at the bridal shower.

Following is given a step by step procedure to prepare quick and easy vegetable soup. So just sit back, relax, hook on your iPhone and note down the facts or better yet, just take a print out of the page.

Note: Read the entire recipe first before you start preparing your vegetable soup. Most of the recipe is listed in chronological form but there are some parts, especially ones where elaborate seasoning is involved, where information regarding an earlier stage in the cooking is given after the info for latter steps:-

Let us start with all the characters who become involved in cooking delicious vegetable soup.

Ingredients

• Around one and a half pints of stock, milk and water
• Sliced vegetables (all sliced and diced and all of your choice)
• Flour (optional, to mix in milk for soup density)
• A touch of butter
• Parsley (finely chopped)
• Salt and pepper

Procedure

Select a large pan or stock pot. First butter the surface of the pan or pot just a little bit. Then throw finely chopped vegetable pieces into the pan or pot. Now, your vegetables could be any number of choices from the following list:-

• Chopped Cauliflower
• Carrot sticks
• Peas (quantity depending upon the amount of soup you are preparing according to the number of guests)
• Corn
• Onion (sliced spring onions are perfect for vegetable soup as they contribute to the taste without overpowering the rest of the ingredients)*
• Sliced Radish
• Leaves of spinach or lettuce
• Broccoli (not really recommended though)

Vegetables for Vegetable Soup

Once you have selected the vegetables you will be using for your own vegetable soup, you may begin by adding them all to the buttered pan.. Sautee the vegetables properly on the frying pan. Let it cook for about fifteen minutes or so, on occasion stirring the pieces so that the veggies absorb the butter. Make sure they do not turn too crisp and brown.

Density of Vegetable Soup

You can measure the density of the vegetable soup, according to your liking, with the addition of the following in varying amounts:-

• Water
• Stock like oats or bran
• Milk
• Flour

Mix up these elements together

(Note: You may or may not use all of these ingredients. Just some of them depending on your choice for the texture of the soup. If you want to go for a light texture, go for a mix of water and stock (boiled separately). If it is a heavy soup texture you are aiming for, then a mixture of milk and flour would be ideal).

Add your preferred mixture to the butter coated vegetable mix in the pan and gently let the combo cook for about thirty minutes.

Now we talk all about the seasoning.

Vegetable Soup Seasoning

Seasoning of vegetable soup comes in every form. The following are the most popular seasoning elements used for a quick and easy vegetable soup recipe:-

• Ginger paste
• Salt
• Pepper
• Chillies (green)
• Basil leaves
• Garlic paste

If you are going for simple salt and pepper seasoning then you may sprinkle those essentials on your vegetable soup mixture of stock and veggies when it is simmering away to glory or on the cooked vegetable mixture before stock is added to it.

Otherwise, if you are going for a slightly more elaborate seasoning involving the likes of ginger or garlic paste, then you may need to change the chronology of your cooking a little bit.

To get the correct amount of effect from ginger or garlic paste seasoning, it is essential that you add either paste to the pan at the time of frying the butter and BEFORE adding the vegetable mix and stock.

Seasoning like green chillies and basil leaves may be added directly to the vegetable mixture and cooked with the mixture itself instead of handling it separately.

Vegetable Soup Finishing Touches

You may pour the soup into a blender and prepare a puree from it.

Then you may return the vegetable soup to the pan or stock pot and reheat it.

Serving Vegetable Soup

You may serve the vegetable soup to the shower guests in your finest china ware. You may sprinkle the soup with finely chopped parsley.

If you are going to sprinkle chopped spring onions on the soup, you also have the option of frying the onion pieces in oil on a separate pan altogether. Nothing like appetizing crispy, crunchy soup dip!

We hope you have found our vegetable soup recipe helpful. Vegetable soups are also favored by those who are health conscious to the core so if you include a vegetable soup on your bridal shower course, it is sure to gain some fans among the guests no matter what. So go ahead and don’t feel like you are taking a shortcut or penny pinching while cooking up a quick and easy vegetable soup for your bridal shower. It just so happens to be one of the most sensible things to do!