Simple Clear Vegetable Soup

Prep: 15min
| Servings: 8 | Cook: 1h
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The simple clear vegetable soup is given an Asian touch by ginger, soy sauce and colorful vegetables. Try it out!

Ingredients

  • 500 g celery root
  • 500 g carrots
  • 1 Garlic clove
  • 200 g white cabbage
  • 3 onions
  • 2 tbsp sesame oil
  • 2 tsp Tomato paste
  • 2 tsp black peppercorns
  • 1 bunch scallions (or spring onions)
  • 400 g Tomatoes
  • 200 g mushrooms (preferably smaller ones)
  • 1 piece ginger (about the size of a small onion)
  • Salt
  • 4 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • juice of one lemon
  • 1 bunch chives

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Peel and roughly dice the celery root and carrots. Remove the stem and outer leaves of the cabbage, wash and cut into small pieces. Peel and chop the garlic.

  2. 2.

    Halve the unpeeled onions and brown them in a pot without fat, skin side down, then remove them.

  3. 3.

    Heat the sesame oil and sauté the prepared vegetables with the tomato paste. Before it burns, pour in about 3 liters of water, add the onion halves and peppercorns. Simmer gently for about an hour.

  4. 4.

    Wash the scallions and cut into pieces. Peel and core the tomatoes; slice the flesh into fine strips. Clean the mushrooms with a dry cloth or brush, quarter or halve them depending on size. Peel the ginger and cut it into very thin slices.

  5. 5.

    Pour the broth through a sieve into another pot.

  6. 6.

    Add the scallions, tomatoes, mushrooms and ginger, and simmer gently for a short time. Season with salt, soy sauce, lemon juice and sugar. Garnish with chives.