{"id":207,"date":"2016-01-22T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T06:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/?p=207"},"modified":"2016-01-22T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T06:20:10","slug":"vegetable-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/vegetable-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetable Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VegetableSoup_standard\"<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Vegetable Soup<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nServes 6<\/span><\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2oz \/ 50g Butter <\/span>
\n2 Small red onions <\/span>
\n2 Leeks, finely chopped <\/span>
\n3 sticks Celery, finely sliced <\/span>
\n2 cloves Garlic, crushed <\/span>
\n4 tablespoons Flour <\/span>
\n500g Passata<\/a> <\/span>
\n2 Large potatoes<\/span>
\n400g Tomatoes, chopped <\/span>
\n2 tablespoons Sugar <\/span>
\n2 tablespoons Tomato puree <\/span>
\n2 Pints \/ 1.1 L Chicken or vegetable stock <\/span>
\nSalt and pepper <\/span>
\nParsley<\/span><\/p>\n

Method<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Melt the butter in a large saucepan and add the onions, leeks, celery and garlic. Stir on the boiling plate for a few minutes, then cover and transfer to the simmering oven for about for about 10 minutes to soften.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Whisk the flour with the passata in a bowl until it`s well blended and smooth.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Add the potatoes, tomatoes, sugar and tomato puree to the pan. Blend in the passata and the chicken stock, stir and allow it to thicken. Bring to the boil on the boiling plate and season. Cover and transfer to the simmering oven for about 20-30 minutes or until the vegetables are tender.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Check the seasoning and serve hot sprinkled with plenty of freshly chopped parsley.<\/span><\/p>\n

To prepare ahead: Cool the soup, cover it and store in the fridge for up to 3 days.<\/span><\/p>\n

To freeze \/ thaw:<\/strong> Pour the soup into a freezer container, cool, cover and freeze for up to a month. Thaw at room temperature for about 8 hours or overnight in the fridge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vegetable Soup Serves 6 Ingredients 2oz \/ 50g Butter 2 Small red onions 2 Leeks, finely chopped 3 sticks Celery,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79fMB-3l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":267,"url":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/camperdown-to-ugie-20th-february-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":207,"position":0},"title":"Camperdown to Ugie – 20th February 2016","author":"@admin","date":"27th February 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday dawned bright and we set off early - 7 am to be exact. We have a two oven AGA stove tied down to the trailer for delivery to Middelburg in the Eastern Cape. The road looms long and arduous before us, but as usual we are full of anticipation\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Eastern Cape"","block_context":{"text":"Eastern Cape","link":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/category\/eastern-cape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"clarendon_house","src":"\/aga1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/_d_improd_\/clarendon_house_f_improf_467x350.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agalady.co.za\/aga1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}