Description
This creamy, vegan wild rice soup is the ultimate comfort food. The flavours are wonderful, it’s full of nutrition and makes the perfect way to warm up on on a cold day.
Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped celery (150 g)
- 1 medium white onion, diced (approx. 1 1/2 cups, 215 g)
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp ground thyme
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 2 cups peeled and diced carrots (300 g)
- 4 heaping cups or 1 small head of cauliflower, chopped into small florets (450 g)
- 5 cups vegetable broth
- 1/2 cup nutritional yeast (30 g)
- 1 1/2 cups cooked wild rice (250 g)
- 1 tsp each sea salt and black pepper, or more to taste
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Cook Rice: Cook the wild rice according to package instructions. While it’s cooking, proceed with making the soup.
- Saute Vegetables: Add the onion, garlic and celery a large soup pot with 2 tablespoons of water and cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes until starting to soften, stirring often (alternatively, you can saute the veggies in 1 tbsp of olive oil). If the pot starts to dry out at any time, add another tablespoon of water.
- Add Herbs: Add the thyme and oregano, stir to combine and cook for another 2 minutes until fragrant, stirring frequently.
- Simmer Soup: Add the cauliflower, carrot and all of the vegetable stock and simmer over medium-low heat until the carrots and cauliflower are tender. This should take approximately 20 minutes.
- Add Nutritional Yeast: Stir in the nutritional yeast.
- Blend Soup: Scoop half of the soup into a blender. Make sure you leave a crack in the lid to let the steam escape. Start blending on low then increase to high and blend until smooth and creamy. Once it’s blended, pour it back into the soup pot with the rest of the soup. Alternatively, use an immersion blender directly in the pot to blend about half of the soup.
- Add Rice: Stir in the cooked wild rice.
- Add Lemon: Stir in the lemon juice and season with salt and pepper, if needed.
- Serve: Serve right away with chopped fresh chives or green onion and lemon wedges.
Notes
Storing: Let cool then store in a sealed container for up to 5 days or in the freezer for 2 months. Thaw overnight in the fridge if frozen. Reheat stovetop or in the microwave until heated to your preference.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/6th of recipe (350 g)
- Calories: 125
- Fat: 0.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 25 g
- Fiber: 6 g
- Protein: 8 g