Recipe: Appetizing Chunky Vegetable Soup - For Children Who Don't Like Vegetables!

Chunky Vegetable Soup - For Children Who Don't Like Vegetables!.

You can cook Chunky Vegetable Soup - For Children Who Don't Like Vegetables! using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chunky Vegetable Soup - For Children Who Don't Like Vegetables!

1. You need 1 of medium butternut sqash.
2. It's of Red pepper.
3. Prepare of Orange pepper.
4. You need of Courgette.
5. Prepare of Large onion.
6. You need 3 of garlic cloves.
7. Prepare of Chopped herbs.
8. You need 200 g of pasta.
9. Prepare 250 grams of cooked chickpeas (remember dried ones may need soaking overnight before cooking).
10. You need of Handfull of french beans.
11. You need 1 litre of bouillon (vegetable stock).
12. You need of Olive oil.
13. It's of Salt.
14. You need of Pepper.

Chunky Vegetable Soup - For Children Who Don't Like Vegetables! step by step

1. Chop the squash, pepper, courgette and onion into large chunks and place them in a baking tray. Toss them in olive oil and season generously with salt and pepper. Add any herbs you like to the mix such as parsley, basil or chives. Cook at 200C for 45 minutes..
2. Meanwhile, cook the pasta, chickpeas and beans (healthier steamed) separately, and when cooked add them together and toss them in olive oil and salt and pepper..
3. Put the cooked squash, pepper, courgette and onion mix into a large heavy saucepan with the vegetable stock and bring up to boiling point Then take it off the heat..
4. Part puree the vegetable mixture in the saucepan (easiest with a hand mixer). A thick puree should result with colourful, large vegetable chunks visible too..
5. Leaving them whole, mix the pasta, chickpeas and beans into the vegetable mix in the saucepan..
6. Serve with a sprinkling of spring onion or crispy bacon, or both..
7. Children will pick out the green beans and all the 'yucky' vegetables they recognise and can find. However, they won't realise that the yummy pulp that's left is full of squash, courgette, pepper, onion, garlic, etc!.