Homemade Vegetable Soup Recipe

Here is a delicious and easy to make homemade vegetable soup, packed full with  healthy vegetables, carrots, leeks, celery and potatoes and delicately flavoured with bouquet garni, mixed herbs and freshly ground black pepper. Serve with freshly baked crusty bread, perfect for the family to enjoy for those chilly days ahead serve for lunch or at suppertime.

Serves 4

Ingredients

50g butter

175g carrots,finely diced

1 large leek, sliced

50g celery, finely diced

25g plain flour

900 mililitre vegetable stock

1 bouquet garni

1 teaspoon mixed herbs

175g potatoes, diced

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to season

Instructions

1. Melt the butter in a large saucepan and gently fry the carrots, leeks and celery for around 5 minutes

2. Add the flour and cook for a minute, then gradually blnd the stock. Add the bouquet garni , mixed herbs and season with sea salt

and black pepper

3. Cover and simmer for 25 minutes, or until the soup is to the desired consistency and the vegetables are cooked through

4. Serve with freshly baked crusty bread.