Winter Vegetable Barley Soup is simple, a little rustic and packed with all the good stuff to keep you healthy.
Winter vegetables often get overlooked, but they shine in this soup. They’re the last to be pulled from the garden, the hearty ones. Roots, bulbs and tubers like carrots, parsnips, celery onion, and potatoes plus hearty greens like lacinato kale and herbs come together for a flavorful soup. Add in pearl barley and it’s a hearty soup.
Ingredients in Winter Vegetable Barley Soup
- Carrot – Fresh from the garden or organic rainbow carrots. Just don’t use purple carrots or your broth will turn a weird color.
- Parsnip – A root vegetable that’s a cross between a carrot and a potato. Adds an earthy flavor.
- Potato – I like to use fingerling potatoes because they are tender and creamy.
- Celery – Celery ribs and leaves adds a fresh flavor.
- Kale – Lacinato kale is my favorite, but you can use any hearty greens.
- Onion – Yellow onion.
- Garlic – Two large garlic cloves.
- Broth – Either vegetable or chicken broth. I like using Better than Bouillon.
- Herbs – Dried or fresh fennel, oregano and basil works well. Or use what you have.
- Barley – Pearled barley found in the dried bean section of the grocery.
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Winter Vegetable Barley Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 small yellow onion chopped
- 2 celery ribs sliced
- 3 carrots peeled and sliced in rounds
- 2 large garlic cloves minced
- 1 handful fingerling potatoes sliced in rounds
- 1 cup parsnips peeled and chopped
- 2 cups lacinato kale chopped
- 1 pinch each of fennel, oregano and basil
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 4 cups good broth, either vegetable or chicken
- 1/4 cup pearled barley
Instructions
- In a large soup pot over medium high heat add olive oil. Saute onion, celery and carrots until just softened. Add garlic, potato, parsnip and kale. Stirring to combine. Add broth, herbs, salt and pepper. Reduce heat to medium low. Simmer for 30 minutes.
- Add barley during the last 30 minutes. Continue simmering until all vegetables are fork tender, about 30 minutes.
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