Dear Folks, My main complaint with many of the liquid stages recipes is the "bland factor". This V-8 based soup has a little zing and sufficient flavor for my taste buds.
V-8 Soup w/ or w/o Ricotta cheese --Many 6 oz. servings or family dinner w additional stuff for the family
Ingredients
1- large can V8 vegetable juice
1 - whole vidalia onion chopped to flinders in blender (onion
fragments pinhead sized)
1 to 1 1/2 cups baby carrots chopped to flinders
1 table spoon of chopped garlic
1 cube/Tsp of Beef broth base
Worchestishire (sp?) Sauce to taster
Cilantro to taste
Siracha Sauce
Salt and pepper
Ricotta cheese if desired
Combine first five ingredients and bring to simmer. Simmer about 30 minutes or until veggie bits are very soft-mushy
Taste and season with Worchestishire sauce, Siracha and cilantro, salt and pepper or soup spices of your choice.
If you want to boost protein- pour hot soup over 1-2 Tsp of ricotta cheese and mix in cup/bowl
You can add any pureed veggie matter and simmer til mushiest. I have tried Mixed veggie (leftover from family meal) and finely chopped cabbage as well in this soup. Have fun and experiment with ingredients.
Hope you like it
