Bobo's Chunky Vegetable Soup

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 2 red bliss potatoes, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 stalk celery, chopped
• 1 leek, halved lengthwise and chopped (white part only)
• 1 turnip, chopped
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 1/4 cup chopped shallot
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 4 cups vegetable stock
• bouquet garni
• 5 zucchini, chopped
• 2 cups plum tomatoes
• 1 summer squash, chopped
• 1 cup green beans, cut into 1 inch pieces
• 1/4 teaspoon red vinegar
• fine sea salt
• fresh ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 heat oil in a 3 quart soup pot over high heat until hot.
• 2 add potaoes, onion, celery, leek, turnip, shallots, and garlic.
• 3 stir the vegetabls around until they begin to cook but don't turn brown.
• 4 add the vegetable stock and the boquet garni to the soup pot.
• 5 bring to a boil.
• 6 reduce heat to simmering and cook for 45 minutes.
• 7 add the zucchini, tomatoes, summer squash, and green beans to soup pot.
• 8 simmer 15 minutes more.
• 9 stir in the vinegar.
• 10 season to taste with salt and pepper.
• 11 bouqet garni: bundle three sprigs fresh thyme, 3 sprigs fresh parsley, 1 bay leaf, and 1 tablespoon black peppercorns together in several thicknesses of cotton cheesecloth.
• 12 tie with string.