Cindys Moms Beef Vegetable Soup Recipes

Steps:

• To an 8 quart stock pot, add beef bone or chicken, water, bay leaf, onion chunks, and sprigs of parsley. Bring to a boil; cover, then simmer about 1 to 1 1/2 hours until beef or chicken is almost done.
• Remove meat bone or chicken to a plate and let cool enough to handle. Strip meat from the bones into chunks (discard bones), and set aside.
• Meanwhile add sliced carrots, leek, chopped celery with leaves, chicken bouillon cubes and pepper (do not add salt). Bring to a boil; cover and simmer 5 to 10 minutes.
• Add the potatoes and the chunks of meat from the cooled soupbone or the chicken; cover and simmer about 35 minutes longer.
• Add cauliflower rosettes, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes. Add chopped fresh parsley and remove from heat.
• Serve steaming hot with a crusty French bread or rolls and butter.
• Makes good leftovers (soup is great on day 1, but tastes even better on days 2-3), and freezes/reheats well.
• VARIATIONS: May add about 6 oz. frozen peas at same time as cauliflower (increase cooking time by about 5 minutes to compensate for the cold peas). I also sometimes add a cup or two of fresh sliced zucchini and/or green beans a few minutes after adding the cauliflower. Also good with sliced hot dogs or kielbasa sausage added during the last 5 minutes or so of cooking time (enough time to heat through).

Steps:

• Cover one blade roast and suet with water.
• Cook until tender.
• Add a few slices of onion and celery for flavor.
• Remove the meat.
• Add all your vegetables in chunks:.
• Cook vegetables until tender.
• Add one large can of whole tomatoes or diced tomatoes.
• Then add the meat back into the soup.
• Cook 8 -10 minutes longer then serve and enjoy.
• Note: If you want the soup to be thicker, you can use 1 can of Tomato Paste.

Steps:

• In a large soup kettle, brown the roast in oil. Add water; cover and simmer for 2-1/2 to 3 hours or until meat is tender. Drain; set roast aside. In the same kettle, combine the tomatoes, celery, carrots, onions, barley and beans. Cover and simmer for 50 minutes or until the barley is tender. Cut beef into 1/2-in. cubes; add to soup. Stir in corn, salt and pepper; heat through.

Steps:

• 1. COOKING THE ROAST BEEF: Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2. Rub salt on the round beef roast. Put it in a Dutch oven. Add the dry onion soup mix and water.
• 3. Bake in oven for 1 hour. Turn the oven temperature to 300 degrees. Check water level periodically; it is important to maintain the original water level throughout the time the roast is in the oven--add water as needed.
• 4. Cook 2 more hours or until you can easily strip a piece of the beef with the grain of the beef.
• 5. Remove from the oven and let the roast cool in the pan until you can easily touch it. Refrigerate. Let any fat on the broth solidify.
• 6. Remove pan from the refrigerator, remove any congealed fat from the broth, and slice the meat against the grain into thin slices, discarding any fat on the roast. Reserve the broth for the soup.
• 7. Alternately, use this recipe for cooking the beef. https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/main-course/beef/italian-beef-12.html?r=1. I have been using Italian Beef for my vegetable soup, and I like the results.
• 8. Using the sliced meat, cut 2 cups into small pieces and set aside for the vegetable soup. Use the rest for another purpose: hot beef sandwiches, barbecue, hash, etc.
• 9. COOKING THE VEGETABLE SOUP: When you are ready to cook the soup, heat a soup pot or Dutch oven. Add oil and chopped onion. Sauté for 2-3 minutes. Add diced carrots. Sauté for 2-3 more minutes.
• 10. In a small pan, cook the diced celery in water until the celery is tender. (I like to cook the celery separately so that it or the other vegetables are not overcooked.) When the celery is tender, reserve it and its cooking water.
• 11. To the pot with cooked onions and carrots, add the reserved beef broth from the roast, dried parsley, and diced potatoes. Cover and cook for about 6-7 minutes until all the vegetables are tender.
• 12. Immediately, add the frozen corn and peas, stopping the cooking of the potatoes and carrots. Add the cooked celery and its water and the reserved diced beef roast to the soup pot.
• 13. Pour the can of stewed tomatoes into a blender and blend. Add the blended stewed tomatoes and the petite diced tomatoes to the soup pot.
• 14. Heat until all the ingredients are hot and the flavors blend, about 5-10 minutes. Taste and add salt if needed.
• 15. We like our vegetable soup served with shredded cheddar and oyster crackers.
• 16. Note: If you like more broth for your soup than cooking the beef yields, cook a package of onion soup mix in a good quality beef broth, and use as much as you like.