Vegetable Soup Recipe

Series Summary

There is nothing more comforting that a bowl of warm soup on a cold winter day, or a steaming cup of Mom’s chicken noodle soup when you are feeling sick. The great thing about soup is that you can use any variety of ingredients and they are often quite simple to make. Primarily a combination of meat, vegetables, or legumes, in stock or hot water, soup has been a favorite dish for centuries and comes from the word “sop”, meaning a piece of bread served with some type of liquid. There are two main classifications of soups: clear soups and thick soups. Whether you are making a clear bouillon based soup or a thick creamy soup, there’s no doubt that soup is an easy and great dish to accompany any meal.

In this free video series our exper Chef will teach you how to make a gourmet vegetable soup. You will learn how to prepare all the vegetables, including onion, carrots, zucchini, and tomatoes, as well as learning how to prepare the beans and saute the onion. You will also get tips on making a garlic tomato paste and adding pasta to your vegetable soup. Let our expert show you how to turn regular vegetable soup into a gourmet dish.

Video Transcript

"Hi welcome to expertvillage.com. I'm Chef Schmul and today we are going to be making a Vegetable Soup Supreme but before we begin let me tell you a little bit about me. I've been cooking since the mid 90's. I went to cooking school in Los Angeles and then I traveled around the world in the South of France and then London and the Netherlands and I have a catering company, I used to cook for movie sets and for celebrities and taught kit cooking for the learning antics and now I'm here to share some of my recipes with you. The recipe that we are doing today is based on a southern French recipe called soup oeste soup but this is a much faster simpler version, just as taste called Vegetable Soup Supreme and where we have all these different vegetables, tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, celery, beans, kidney beans and green beans, garlic and we have some angel hair pasta that we are going to break in there but what makes it supreme is that we are going to be making a basil garlic paste that goes inside the soup and makes it pretty incredible. So keep clicking and we are going to tell you step by step how to make this incredible soup."