Sunday, October 10, 2010

Quick and Easy Vegetable and Wild Rice Soup

Being a single girl, I often need to whip up something quick and easy on the go.  When that is the case, this is one of my go-to recipes. Its healthy and simple and you will even have leftovers for lunch.  Score!

Ingredients

  1. 2 Vegetable Boullion Cubes
  2. 4 cups of Water
  3. 1 Green Pepper
  4. 1 Red Pepper
  5. 1 Small Onion (I use yellow onion)
  6. 2 Celery Stalks
  7. 1 Large Carrot
  8. 4 Button Mushrooms
  9. 1/2 of Zuchinni
  10. 1 Cup of Dry Basmati Rice (or you can use instant)
  11. 1/4 Cup of Dry Wild Rice Grains
  12. Scallions for Garnish


Bring 1 3/4 cup of water, a dah os sea salt and a splash of EVOO and bring to a boil.  Once the water comes to a boil, add the basmati and wild rice to the pot and cover for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, uncover rice and fluff with a fork.

In a seperate pot, combine the boullione and water in a pot and bring to a boil.  Dissolve the boullione cubes completely.  Chop all of the ingredients up and add them to the pot.  Cover and cook for 25 minutes on medium-low heat.

Spoon some of the rice into a bowl and then laddle the soup on top.  Use a spoon to mix everything together.  I keep the rice and soup seperate when refridgerating because the rice will absorb most of the broth.  It's pretty yummy and easy!  Enjoy!


2 comments:

  1. The blog looks good Rachel! Keep it up.

    A Vegan tip of mine. When preparing fresh vegetables during the week, keep the scraps/skins etc, throw them into a plastic bag and into the freezer. On the weekend saute a little garlic in a pot, then add the scraps and one gallon of water and lightly boil for an hour. Voila, you've got some tasty vegetable broth. Let it cool and store it in 4 1 quart tupperwares. Then on short notice, just pop one out into a pot and good to go.

    You'll never go back to bouillon!

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  2. Dan! I do the same thing. On Fridays, I clean out all my veggies and make broth! It is a good way to clean out the fridge before my weekly pilgrimage to Haymarket and I get awesome broth. Stay tuned...my vegetable broth recipe will be coming shortly!

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