Spring Veggie Soup With Ditalini
Recipe: #17970
March 13, 2015
Categories: Comfort Food, Lunch, Soups and Stews, Beans, Pasta, Ditalini, Vegetables, North American, Easy/Beginner Cooking, Fall/Autumn, Ladies Luncheon, Sunday Dinner, Winter, Stove Top, Gluten-Free, High Fiber, Kosher, Low Cholesterol, Low Fat, Vegan, Vegetarian, Make it from scratch, Spring more
"This soup beginnings start off by making a broth using five different vegetables and two herbs. It is then strained and fresh veggies are then added to make an exclusively veggie forward tasting soup. Source: Cory Schreiber and Julie Richardson (with some adjustments)"
Original recipe yields 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (357.8 g)
- Calories 234.7
- Total Fat - 4.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.8 g
- Cholesterol - 7.3 mg
- Sodium - 256.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 40.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 10.8 g
- Sugars - 10.5 g
- Protein - 10.9 g
- Calcium - 265.9 mg
- Iron - 5.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 129.4 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In a large soup pot, combine the celery, carrots, onions, leek, fennel, parsley, thyme and 1 tablespoon of salt. Add 8 cups of water and bring to a simmer. Cover and cook over low heat for 40- 60 minutes (I cooked it longer to get every last veggie flavor infused into the broth). Strain the broth into a clean saucepan and season with salt. Discard solids.
Step 2
Meanwhile, in a medium pot of boiling salted water, cook the ditalini until al dente. Drain and rinse under cool water. Toss the ditalini with the 1 teaspoon of olive oil.
Step 3
To the broth, add the white wine, if using. Return the vegetable broth to a simmer. Add the asparagus, peas and fava beans. Simmer over moderately low heat until the vegetables are bright green and just tender, about 2 minutes. Add the parsley and ditalini (or orzo) and cook until the pasta is heated through, about 1 minute. Add the black pepper, tasting for seasoning. Ladle the soup into bowls, drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, if desired and serve while hot.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.
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