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A soup to warm your hands and to strengthen your courage…

We can do anything if we sit with intention, just holding it in our thoughts, our hearts and lifting it up with LOVE, LIGHT, JOY, PEACE and COURAGE.

There are no limits to what we can do…..try it!

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tips

  • If I am out of homemade vegetable stock, I add the rind end of a wedge of parmesan—it adds a savoury, salty flavour to the soup.
  • This recipe also called for four dried shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced. I tend not to eat mushrooms, so I left them out. But if you like the deep earthy flavour of mushrooms, add them to the soup with the vegetables.

 

vegetable barley ginger soup with lemon thyme

preparation 50 minutes

serves 4 – 6

Inspired by Noa.

ingredients  

2 Tbsp olive oil

2 stalks/150g celery

3 Tbsp/30g fresh ginger, finely chopped

1 tsp turmeric powder

1 stick of kombu

1 fresh bay leaf

1 medium/300g sweet potato or pumpkin

2 medium/170g carrots

a large wedge cabbage (200g)

⅓ cup/70g whole barley

10 cups/2½ L vegetable stock or water

1 bunch/15g lemon thyme

1 bunch/30g each fresh parsley and dill

Extra parsley, dill and chard/kale

2 tsp rock salt

¼ tsp freshly ground pepper

preparation 

  1. Finely chop the celery, wash and peel the remaining vegetables, then cut into generous chunks so that they do not break up in the cooking.
  2. Heat the olive oil in a heavy-based saucepan. Add the celery, ginger, turmeric, kombu, and bay leaf and saute until coated.
  3. Add the remaining vegetables, barley and pour in the water so that the vegetables are covered.
  4. Tie up the lemon thyme, parsley, and dill tightly and place them on top. Bring to a boil and turn down the heat—simmer covered for 45 minutes.
  5. Remove the bunch of lemon thyme, parsley, and dill and discard it. Add the salt and freshly ground pepper. Roughly chop a handful of fresh parsley, dill, and chard/kale and stir this into the soup.
  6. Using a potato masher, press down a few times to break up the vegetables. Allow to sit for 5 minutes before tasting, adding extra seasoning where needed.

Serve with a drizzling of olive oil and extra cracked pepper.

Goodness shared from Stacey