Vegetable Soup

Vegetable soup

Ingredients

4 tbsp butter

Vegetables

2 cups chopped leeks

2 cups diced carrots

2 cups diced potatoes

1 large onion, diced

1 1/2 cups frozen peas

Seasonings

2 tbsp salt

1 tsp black pepper

2 tbsp dried thyme

Grains

1/3 cup barley

3/4 cup red lentils

1/4 cup green lentils

1/4 cup brown rice

Broth

8 cups vegetable broth

3 cups garden vegetable cocktail

Soup ingredients

Directions

Sauté the veggies in the butter until softened a bit, add the salt, pepper and thyme and give it a stir. Add the remaining ingredients: barley, rice, lentils, broth and veg cocktail and bring to a boil.

Adding grains to sautéed veggies

Turn down the heat and let simmer about 30 minutes.

Vegetable soup

I bottled this batch for lunches. I can just grab one from the freezer and throw in my lunch bag with some crackers. So convenient!

6 x 500-ml & six x 1-litre jars of vegetable soup