How to Cook Soup, Vegetarian Style

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Many people wonder how to cook healthy soup. It's such a simple food when you think about it. Soup, historically, has been one of the key foods that nourished people, because the only cooking option they had was to put a pot over a fire. They would add a little bit of what they had available to eat, let it simmer together, and it would make a healthy nutritious broth that could actually feed many mouths.
Hot soup is a really wonderful food for winter. Start out with a pot of water. You can sauté onions and garlic first in a little bit of olive oil, or just put them directly into the pot of water. Then add 1-3 teaspoons of favorite herbs (essential). Add a half cup of your favorite grain, such as barley, quinoa, rice or amaranth. Depending on the grain, it may take a half an hour up to a couple of hours to cook the soup. During the last 30-60 minutes of cooking chop any vegetables; add to the broth.
Remember grain is going to swell by three or four times, so start with a small amount of grain; half to three-quarters cup is about right for a big pot of soup. Let the grain cook for whatever time is needed: a half an hour for quinoa, about an hour for brown rice, and up to a couple of hours for barley. Each one is going to be a little bit different. Amaranth takes about an hour to cook and it's a very tiny grain which is a really nice addition to a soup, even along with another grain. It and quinoa both offer complete protein.
Adding beans to the soup will complement the protein of the grain and provide complete protein. You can add a cup of pre-cooked or canned beans if in a hurry, or soak and slightly sprout dry beans and cook them in the broth with the soup. You generally need to cook dry beans for several hours. A great way to do it is to soak and cook your beans on a day when you have time, either in a pot or crock pot.
Adding a good dose of herbs and spices, a little olive oil and a little soy sauce finishes off the soup. You might add a tiny bit of sale, and soy sauce will help give it a hardy flavor. Umeboshi plum vinegar (macrobiotic seasoning) is another wonderful way to add flavor to the broth.
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[saijewell]

yum! Nothing better than walking into the house on a cool autumn day to the smells of soup cooking, except maybe sitting down to a nice hot bowl!