How to make soup from what you have at home
A how to recipe for homemade soup using the ingredients you have at home.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp avocado oil
- 1 cup diced onion
- 1 lb diced chicken
- 3 sliced sliced carrots
- 10 cups chicken broth
- 3 stalks diced celery
- 1 15 oz can tomato sauce
- 1/4 head diced cabbage
- 2 tsp cumin or to taste
- 1 tsp salt or to taste
- 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro
- 1 cup frozen corn
- 1/2 cup rinsed quinoa
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 cup fresh spinach
- fresh squeezed lime
Instructions
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In stock pot add olive oil, onion, and chicken. Saute on medium heat until onion is tender and chicken is cooked. Add celery, carrots, corn, cabbage, chicken broth, tomato sauce, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer 30 minutes. Taste for salt and pepper, add more if needed
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Add quinoa and water. Cover and simmer until quinoa is cooked, about 20 minutes. Stir in spinach and frozen peas. Simmer an additional 3 minutes. Squeeze 1/2 fresh lime over top(really gives it a bright fresh taste), dollop of sour cream, some avocado and extra cilantro if desired and you have it on hand. Serve with what you have on hand, crackers, bread, bagel, english muffin.
Recipe Notes
If you are using this particular recipe and not doing the possible variations listed above PLEASE USE LIME JUICE! That's right capitalized and bolded because this soup was pretty good, but lacking the Southwest taste we were going for. By squeezing fresh lime juice into the finished soup it took it to the next level, please don't miss out on this extra zip!