PASTA SOUP- VEGETABLE SOUPY PASTA
Pasta soup recipe is a comforting, delicious and flavorful dinner you can be a fix easily. This vegetable pasta soup is a perfect dinner for a monsoon or a winter evenings when we crave something hot and comforting. Unlike white sauce loaded heavy ones from in the restaurants, this homemade pasta soup is a light, clean and flavorful.
Serve with to a salad and a piece of the toast or a garlic bread for a comforting lunch or dinner or supper for a everyone. Here is how to make a best pasta soup at home!
Pasta recipes are always welcome at our home, my kid loves pasta. So along with a indulgent white sauce pasta I have a few recipes handy that have a pasta as well as a veggies sneaked in. I find pasta as a wonderful medium to the sneak in a loads of the vegetables.
Few veggie are loaded pasta recipes that we love are vegetable pasta, Indian Marsala pasta, spinach pasta, pasta casserole recipes. These are sure shot way to get a kids east vegetables.
Soup with a pasta is one of my favorite dishes with a pasta to the both cook and eat. I make it in many ways and here I am two ways of the making pasta soup recipe.
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About This Recipe
Pasta soup is a delicious and comforting dish where perfectly cooked a Alden pasta is a served in a base of the warn soup. There are many ways to make a soupy pasta though.
Most popular ones being a chicken pasta soup, there are also a many vegetarian variations for in the same. I make it two ways mostly. One is the detailed method shared here for a making creamy yet light on a tummy soupy pasta and another one easy vegetable pasta soup recipe.
This veg pasta soup is a family favorite that combines in the goodness of the vegetables and pasta. Unlike in the restaurant ones, in this homemade soup is a full of the vegetables, flavorful and the very delicious.
Also this is a very light pasta soup without a any butter or a white sauce. The whole recipe is made just with a 1 tablespoon olive oil. Also this is a vegan recipe and you can be make it gluten free by a using gluten free pasta. You can be however add to a some grated Parmesan cheese before serving.
This is a perfect make a ahead dinner too. Make in the soup base ready whenever you have a time. At the time of the serving just boil pasta, reheat in the soup and the serve
This Veg Pasta Soup Recipe Is
Quick to make, takes less than a 30 minutes
Vegan & can be made gluten free
Delicious, flavorful and the healthy
Kids friendly
Comforting meal
To make a pasta soup recipe, I followed my mixed vegetable soup recipe and added a fork tender cooked pasta to it and simmered for a few minutes.
This is a very basic and easy pasta soup recipe. Feel free to the add or leave out veggies as per your taste, in the seasoning can also a varied to the taste.
The ingredients for a making vegetable pasta soup are mostly pantry staple ones. It is a requires loads of the fresh vegetables, olive oil, black pepper and the salt only. Here I have a used water for a cooking in the vegetables but you can be also use a vegetable broth or even any meat broth.
I have a used mixed pasta spices along with a salt and pepper powder. I have a used potatoes, carrots and sweet corn kernels. You can be add a peas, beans, cauliflower too.
I have made in this soup very mild as I made in this for my daughter. It is a seasoned just with a dash of the salt and freshly cracked black pepper. If you are making in this for a adults or even house parties you can be a easily vary in the seasonings.
For a spicier pasta try adding to a dash of the red chili powder or a cayenne pepper or a paprika. Also you can be add a dried herbs or a Italian seasonings for a flavor.
You can be serve in this pasta soup as a main meal as this is a loaded with a vegetables and pasta, I suggest you serve in this pasta soup hot as it is a tastes very nice and comforting when served hot.
How To Make Pasta Soup Recipe
Heat to a small pressure cooker with a 1 tablespoon olive oil. Saute roughly chopped onions for a few minutes.
Next add to a diced tomatoes and saute well for a 3-5 minutes.
Add in the roughly chopped veggies and the saute well, till in the oil coats in the vegetables.
Add about a 3/4 cup water to the sauteed vegetables and bring to a boil. Close in the pressure cooker and pressure cook for a 3-4 whistles. If using an a instant pot cook for a 5 minutes in a pressure cook or manual mode with a pressure valve sea-sled.
In the meanwhile bring 2 cups of the water to the boil in a pot. Add to a few drops of the oil and a pinch of the salt. Add to a 1/2 cup pasta. Cook in the pasta until AL dented or it is soft yet holds in the shape well.
Drain and keep in the cooked pasta closed until use. Do not cook for a more time, else in the pasta will be turn mushy when simmered with a soup.
Once in the vegetables are cooked and pressure is a released, drain in the cooked vegetables and reserve in the stock.
Puree in the cooked vegetables , add a some reserved stock to ease in the grinding.
Return in the pureed vegetables to the same pressure cooker, add in the reserved stock and cook for a 8-10 minutes. Add to a salt and pepper powder to the taste.
Once in the soup is a thickened, add in the cooked pasta and the simmer for a 4- minutes. Add to a dried pasta herbs and mix well.
Serve a pasta soup hot, you can be a some grated cheese if is a required while serving.
Recipe Tips & Notes
Cooking Pasta-The pasta should be a cooked AL dented which means it is a cooked yet has a bite. Make sure to cook pasta a minute or two less than in the package instructions. You can be add a few drops of the oil to make a pasta non sticky.
For more flavor along with a onions you can be also a saute few garlic cloves. Just a peel, mince and the saute along with a onions. You can be also
You can make in the soup base a day before and refrigerate. You can be also use a leftover soup to make in this soupy pasta. The soup base a freezes well and can be a frozen for a 2 months.
Instead of the water you can be add a vegetable stock or chicken broth to the boil in the vegetables. I have used a water only. For a more flavor and color you can be add to a 1-2 tablespoons tomato sauce or a paste in a soups.
The recipe can be doubled or halved.
Frequently Asked a Questions
Which Pasta Is a Best For a Soup?
For in this recipe you can be use a any kind of the pasta. Here I have used a fusilier. You can be also a use penned, elbow, bow tie pasta or a macaroni.
While making for a toddlers I suggest you use to a mini elbow as it is a easy to the eat. You can be even use in those tiny alphabet or a numerals pasta for a fun while a making for a kids.
Which Veggies Go Well In This Recipe?
As a mentioned above you can be use a potatoes, onion, peppers, corn, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, beets. Few more options are squash of a any kind, pumpkin, spinach leaves, green beans.
How To Make This Soup More Filling?
This recipe as such makes to a light pasta soup. To make it more hearty and the filling you can be add one of the followings.
- tossed pane-er cubes while in a serving
- grated cheese while in a serving
- sauteed mushrooms
- Cooked beans like a cannelloni beans, kidney beans or a even chickpeas fill make in the soup super filling.
- you can be also a serve in this soup as such with a toasted bread and avocado salad for a filling meal.
How To Make Clear Soup Pasta?
If you prefer to a soupy pasta you can be make in this veg clear soup or a sweet corn clear soup and add a cooked pasta to it is a while serving.
How to make pasta soup with cheese?
To make a cheesy pasta soup you can be a either stir in a some cream cheese while in the soup is a simmering or a add some grated Parmesan cheese just before.
Can you mix tinned soup with pasta?
Yes, prepare in the soup according to the package instructions and add a cooked pasta.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup pasta any cut
1 potato large, peeled and roughly chopped
1 carrot peeled and roughly chopped
1/2 cup sweet corn
1 tomato chopped
1 onion roughly chopped
1/2 teaspoon dried pasta herbs
Salt
Pepper powder
1 tablespoon olive oil
INSTRUCTIONS
Heat to a small pressure cooker with a 1 tablespoon olive oil. Saute roughly chopped onions for a few minutes.
Next add to a chopped tomatoes and saute well for a 3-5 minutes.
Add in the roughly chopped veggies and the saute well, till in the oil coats in the vegetables.
Add about a 3/4 cup water to the sauteed vegetables and bring to a boil. Close in the pressure cooker and pressure cook for a 3-4 whistles.
In the meanwhile bring to a 2 cups of water to the boil in a pot. Add to a few drops of the oil and a pinch of the salt. Add to a 1/2 cup pasta and cook for a 7-8 minutes until just tender. Drain and keep in the cooked pasta closed until use. Do not cook for a more time, else in the pasta will turn mushy when simmered with a soup.
Once in the vegetables are cooked and pressure is a released, drain in the cooked vegetables and reserve in the stock.
Puree in the cooked vegetables , add some reserved stock to ease in the grinding.
Return in the pureed vegetables to the same pressure cooker, add in the reserved stock and cook for a 8-10 minutes. Add to a salt and pepper powder to the taste.
Once in the soup is a thickened, add in the cooked pasta and simmer for a 4- minutes. Add to a dried pasta herbs and mix well. Serve to a pasta soup hot, you can be some grated cheese if it is a required while serving.
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I hope you will try this pasta soup recipe and enjoy as much as we did.