Easy Love Apple Tree Veggie Soup

This recipe is a wonderful use for all of those extra garden veggies you lot convey this fourth dimension of year. Tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, onions, celery in addition to anything else you lot tin intend of to add together to the soup; this recipe is rattling versatile (and yummy).

1 loving cup chopped onions
1 loving cup chopped celery
1 loving cup chopped carrots
2 teaspoons minced garlic
2 1/2 cups water
2 large tomatoes (I purpose roasted cherry tomatoes)
1 (15 ounce) tin ro-tel tomatoes alongside juice (I purpose mild)
4 cups beef  or vegetable broth  (not bullion)
1/3 loving cup uncooked barley
1/4-1/2 teaspoon dark pepper (I similar 1/2 teaspoon)
2 cups chopped zucchini
1 tin rinsed in addition to drained kidney beans (or your favorite bean)
pinch of cherry-red pepper flakes if you lot similar oestrus (optional)

Spray a large soup pot alongside vegetable spray in addition to sauté the onions, celery in addition to carrots until the onions turn soft in addition to a little sweet.

Put the undrained tin of rotel tomatoes

PLUS the ii fresh tomatoes into the nutrient processor in addition to blend until smooth, in addition to therefore add together to the pot.

Add everything else to the pot in addition to simmer SLOWLY for 45 minutes, that's it; only stir it in 1 lawsuit inwards a while.

I'm SURE this could move easily done inwards the crockpot equally well. This is 1 of those nifty recipes that tastes fifty-fifty amend on twenty-four hours two.

ENJOY !!