Tasty Tuesday! Garden Vegetable Soup

Tomorrow I will be revealing a new project that I'm collaborating on with some awesome bloggers! Today's post is sort of a teaser for it.

I've been focused on buying a lot of fresh produce and making healthier meals for my family. I have searched the internet high and low for recipes that meet my rather nit-picky requirements, which are:

1. Easy
2. Quick
3. "Normal" ingredients (things I can find at our local market)
4. Something that all of us will (hopefully) enjoy

One of the things I have been determined to find a good recipe for is vegetable soup. I took to Pinterest and pinned tons of different versions. I randomly picked one last week, and it turned out great! (My husband said it will take him awhile to get used to soup that's not from a can. Meaning soup that isn't so overloaded with salt that you can't taste anything else.)


Garden Vegetable Soup
(Makes 6 servings)

1/2 cup carrots, sliced

1/4 cup onions, diced

2 garlic cloves, minced

3 cups fat-free beef, chicken or vegetable broth

1 cup green cabbage, diced

1 cup spinach, chopped

1 tbsp tomato paste

1/2 tsp dried basil

1/4 tsp dried oregano

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup zucchini, diced

Directions

Spray a large saucepan with nonstick cooking spray, and heat.

Place carrot, onion and garlic in saucepan. Sauté vegetables over low heat for 5 minutes, until softened.

Add broth, cabbage, spinach, tomato paste, basil, oregano and salt. Bring saucepan to a boil.

Reduce heat, and simmer, covered, for 15 minutes. Stir in zucchini, and cook 3-4 minutes.

I'm not supposed to use cooking spray on my stainless steel pot, so I coated it with Extra Virgin Olive Oil instead. We don't like cabbage, so I left that out. I also added 1 cup of cooked pasta. That wound up being too much, so next time I'll cut it down to 1/2 or 3/4cup. To compensate for adding pasta, I increased the broth to 4 cups. (I used organic 99% fat free chicken broth.)

We had a fresh French Baguette along with the soup. I thought it came out great, and highly recommend it!

*I found the recipe on pinterest, but it originates from Dr. Oz's weight watchers website

I'm linking up with Candice at The New Modern Momma today! 

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