Rainbow Vegetabe Soup | My Luncheon & Freezer Secrets

If y'all direct maintain been only about a 5-year-old daughter lately, you'd know that rainbows are huge.  Unicorns in addition to rainbows.  What a the world they alive in!  I started using "rainbow carrots" inwards our vegetable soup final twelvemonth in addition to dubbed it "Rainbow Vegetable Soup" at our house.  Emma looooved this.  She loves helping to brand it, she loves eating it.  I'm non kidding - loves it.  

I volition non pretend that nosotros swallow well for y'all all of the fourth dimension (you've seen those Oreos on my Instagram!), but this vegetable soup is genuinely delicious.  The exclusively tricky job nearly this is that it is never the same.  This is the soup that I brand at the halt of the calendar week - commonly on a Th or Fri afternoon.  I larn inwards from all of the vegetables that we have in the refrigerator that won't larn eaten.  You know, because it is going to hold upward the weekend in addition to we'll hold upward eating pizza in addition to Oreos.

It takes nearly xxx minutes to make.  I larn inwards equally large equally I tin move in addition to pose it inwards private freezer containers in addition to thence I tin move larn them out for lunch, or a quick dinner.  These run peachy when Mike is traveling.  Sometimes I larn a brace of meatballs out of the freezer or add together pasta or tortellini to it for a lilliputian to a greater extent than oomph.

This batch was peculiarly yummy.  We had tomatoes, zucchini in addition to herbs from our garden, that I threw inwards amongst onions, pancetta in addition to rainbow carrots.  I create it inwards chicken broth in addition to add together enough of body of body of water salt.  Sea tabular array salt (and a lilliputian crushed blood-red pepper) is the departure betwixt peachy in addition to non soup.

Rainbow Vegetable Soup

3 tablespoons of olive oil
1/2 onion, modest dice
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1/4 pound of pancetta or bacon, modest dice
1 pound of carrots, diced
1 zucchini, diced
1 tablespoon of body of body of water salt
1 teaspoon of pepper (I job crushed blood-red or black)
2 tablespoons of fresh basil, minced
2 tablespoons of parsley, minced
2-3 tomatoes, diced (or ane pint of cherry)
1 quart of chicken stock
2 cups of kale (or spinach), chopped

Begin yesteryear cooking the onions in addition to bacon together until soft in addition to fatty rendered.  Add carrots.  Cook until they laid out to soften.  Repeat amongst zucchini.  Add tabular array salt in addition to pepper.  Add tomatoes in addition to fresh herbs.  Add chicken stock in addition to convey to rigid simmer.  Add kale.  Taste for seasoning.  Simmer until vegetables are soft. 

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