Vegetable Soup

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Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

• 1 large carrot
• 4 French beans
• ¼ cabbage
• 1 stalk celery
• 1 leek
• 1 medium onion
• 1 bay leaf
• 5 peppercorns
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tbsp of oil
• 1½ tsp worcestershire sauce
• 1½ tsp of salt
• 8 cups of water

Directions

1. Wash all the vegetables thoroughly.
2. Peel and cut the carrot and French beans. Preserve carrot peels.
3. Chop onion and cabbage into 1 cm. cubes.
4. Slice the garlic.
5. Boil carrot and French beans in extra water for 10 minutes. Strain and keep aside.
6. In a soup pot, heat oil.
7. Add the chopped onion, garlic, bay leaf, peppercorns, leek, chopped celery and carrot peels and fry for three minutes.
8. Add water and bring to a boil. Cook uncovered on medium flame for 10 minutes.
9. Strain the stock into a fresh pot.
10. Add cabbage, boiled carrot and French beans. Stir the mixture.
11. Add salt and Worcestershire sauce.
12. Bring to a boil and serve hot.