Garden Vegetable Soup
One pot and a whole bunch of vegetables are all you need to whip up this hearty, healthy soup. If your kids never ate any vegetable dishes other than this soup, they'd live to see a hundred. This recipe first appeared in Season 8 of Good Eats. Photo by Lynne Calamia
- Time: 85 min
- Servings: 6
Source: Alton Brown
Ingredients
- tablespoons olive oil
- chopped leeks, white parts only, from approximately 3 medium leeks
- tablespoons freshly minced garlic
- kosher salt, plus more to taste
- peeled and chopped carrots, approximately 2 medium
- peeled and diced potatoes
- fresh green beans, broken or cut into 3/4-inch pieces
- quarts chicken or vegetable broth, homemade if possible
- peeled, seeded, and chopped tomatoes
- ears corn, kernels removed
- teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- packed, chopped fresh parsley leaves
- to 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice