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Velvety Green Vegetable Soup (Dairy Free)

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This Green Vegetable Soup is smooth and creamy and loaded with spring greens. It’s as delicious as it is healthy.

Velvety Green Vegetable Soup

Spring is in the air! I’m so ready to start seeing some green leaves and grass again. The temps are starting to warm up a bit during the day, but it’s still quite chilly at night. It’s the perfect time to enjoy a lightened up, yet warming soup. Especially one full of nutrients to detox from the heavy meals of winter. This Velvety Green Vegetable Soup is the answer!

Velvety Green Vegetable Soup

It’s sometimes hard to get my kids to eat leafy greens. They like salad, but present them with leafy greens any other way and they turn up their noses claiming they don’t like it. Well, that’s just fine, because you know what they do like? Broccoli! Sooooo, I might tell them that this is broccoli soup. Which isn’t actually a lie. I just fail to disclose that there are other things in there. It’s a win-win. They think they are slurping up soup made from little trees and I rest easy knowing they are getting the nutrients their little bodies need.

Velvety Green Vegetable Soup

Almost every ingredient in this green vegetable soup is on the The World’s Healthiest Foods List. You could probably more than fulfill your daily vitamin and mineral requirements by eating a bowl or two of this green goodness…which is especially good news for the kiddos who don’t otherwise like to eat their green vegetables.

Velvety Green Vegetable Soup

And, not only is it full of the healthiest vegetables, you’ll also find lots of herbs, citrus, and even creamy cannellini beans. They all work wonderfully together to balance out the flavors and create the most velvety, light, delicious green soup.

Velvety Green Vegetable Soup

This soup is really easy to make. You don’t have to worry about being precise with your knife cuts – a rough chop is fine. The entire soup gets pureed in the blender. And any green leafy veggies will work, so you can swap out for what you have on hand or what’s on sale.

If you belong to a CSA, you now know what to do with quite a few of the veggies and herbs you’ll find in there. Or you can head on down to your local farmer’s market and shop with confidence knowing you have a game plan when you get home.

Velvety Green Vegetable Soup

I topped off this velvety green vegetable soup with a bit of lite coconut milk for a little extra creaminess and a few green peas for texture – both of which are totally optional.

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Velvety Green Vegetable Soup
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
35 mins
 
This Green Vegetable Soup is smooth and creamy and loaded with spring greens. It's as delicious as it is healthy.
Course: Appetizer, Soup
Cuisine: dairy free, gluten free, oil free, soy free, vegan
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 193 kcal
Author: Jenn S.
Ingredients
  • 1/2 sweet onion (chopped)
  • 4 garlic cloves (chopped)
  • 1 small head broccoli (chopped) (about 2-2 1/2 cups)
  • 2 stalks celery (chopped)
  • 1 cup green peas (I used frozen)
  • 3 green onions
  • 2 3/4 cups low sodium vegetable broth
  • 4 cups leafy greens (I used baby kale, baby spinach, and baby swiss chard)
  • 1 15 oz can cannellini beans (or 1.5 cups cooked)
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 2 tbsp chopped fresh dill
  • 5 fresh mint leaves
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup lite coconut milk (optional)
Instructions
  1. In a soup pot over medium heat, heat 1/4 cup vegetable broth and saute the sweet onion for 3-4 minutes, until starting to soften.
  2. Add the garlic and saute another 1-2 minutes.
  3. Add the remaining 2 1/2 cups vegetable broth, broccoli, celery, peas, and green onions. Turn down the heat to medium-low and simmer 10-15 minutes until vegetables are tender.
  4. Transfer the soup to a blender and add the leafy greens, beans, lemon juice, dill, mint and salt. Use the tamper to pack the greens down. Blend until smooth. You may need to work in batches if your blender is on the smaller side.
  5. Pour the soup back into the soup pot, taste and adjust seasonings as necessary. Add the coconut milk, if desired, and stir to combine.
Recipe Notes

~You don't need to be precise with your knife cuts since this is all going in the blender anyway. A rough chop is fine.

~Use any mix of greens you like - kale, spinach, chard, arugula, red or green leaf lettuce, watercress.

 

 

Nutrition Facts
Velvety Green Vegetable Soup
Amount Per Serving
Calories 193 Calories from Fat 18
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2g 3%
Saturated Fat 2g 10%
Sodium 1136mg 47%
Potassium 751mg 21%
Total Carbohydrates 34g 11%
Dietary Fiber 11g 44%
Sugars 7g
Protein 11g 22%
Vitamin A 50%
Vitamin C 52%
Calcium 16%
Iron 22%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Velvety Green Vegetable Soup - This Green Vegetable Soup is smooth and creamy and loaded with spring greens. It's as delicious as it is healthy.

Comments

    • This one is not very thick – I think you’d like it a lot. Very fresh and nutritious. Thanks, Amanda!

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    • Thanks so much Linda! I love that we both made green soups this week! 🙂 I think the color of yours wins though! Bring on spring!

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    • Thanks so much, Linda! I love that we both made green soups this week. I think the color of yours wins though!! It was so pretty! Bring on spring!

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  13. All the veggies in one creamy place! This will get me eating more greens too! Smoothies and soups are my favorite way to get in a big dose of greens, I don’t know why everything is tastier when blended but it is 🙂

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    • I agree! And it’s so much easier to consume a lot at once that way. Not so easy to get the same amount of broccoli in whole floret form! Thanks, Natalie!

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  14. Greens with beans and coconut <3 A win!!! I would slurp this up with a straw 😉 Hahahahaha! Of course you don't have to tell me to eat more greens! If someone could overdose on them…that would be me!

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    • LOL! Greens for the win!! This would actually be a great sipping soup in a mug! Thanks, Rebecca!

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