Cleansing Green Vegetable Soup
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Recipe type: Soup, Main dish
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Serves: 8
 
A cleansing soup full of nutrients, vitamins, and flavor!
Ingredients
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil, or oil of choice
  • 1 yellow onion
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • ½ teaspoon dried basil
  • ½ teaspoon dried parsley
  • ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1 small head of broccoli (2 cups florets)
  • 1 zucchini, diced (2 cups diced)
  • Green cabbage (2 cups shredded)
  • 2 stalks of celery, diced
  • 6 cups vegetable broth
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 cup fresh or frozen green peas
  • 10 oz baby spinach or kale, roughly chopped
  • ½ cup flat leaf parsley, chopped
  • Juice of one lemon, about 3 tablespoons
  • 1 avocado
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper
  • ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
  1. In a large soup pot, saute onion and garlic in 1 tablespoon coconut oil over medium heat until onions are translucent, about 3-5 minutes, stirring occasionally so the garlic doesn’t burn
  2. Add dried parsley, basil, pepper, and thyme, and stir for 1 minute
  3. Add broccoli, zucchini, cabbage celery, broth and bay leaves to the pot.
  4. Cover, bring to a low boil, and reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
  5. Add peas, and cook an additional 5 minutes.
  6. Turn off heat and add baby spinach or kale. Stir to incorporate and cover pot with the lid to let wilt, about 5 minutes.
  7. Meanwhile, in a blender or food processor, add avocado, lemon juice, and ¼ cup of broth from the pot and blend until smooth.*
  8. Stir the avocado and lemon mixture into the broth until completely incorporated.
  9. Stir in the parsley.
  10. Taste and season with additional salt and pepper if necessary.
  11. Serve hot!
Notes
*You can skip the blending of the avocado and just add diced avocado to each bowl of soup individually, but I like the creaminess it adds by adding it in as noted above. If you choose not to blend it, just add the lemon juice to the soup separately.

**If you’re not serving this right away, just do steps 1 - 5. When you’re ready to eat, re-heat the soup on the stove and then add the spinach or kale, parsley, and avocado/lemon mixture once hot.
Recipe by Insightful Bite at https://www.insightfulbite.com/cleansing-green-vegetable-soup/