Vegetable Noodle Soup (2024)

My kids love soup and homemade vegetable noodle soup is a true winner in my house! It's perfect for cold winter nights when all you want to do is cozy up on the couch with a blanket and your favorite television show. This recipe makes a big batch to eat not just for dinner, but for lunch throughout the week or to freeze for an easy meal later on.

It's not just a fantastic way to get your whole family to eat a lot of vegetables in one sitting, but to eliminate a whole lot of processed ingredients you get from canned soup. It's also inexpensive to make this large pot of soup, so it's economical and budget-friendly too. It's a quick and easy soup that takes about 2 hours from preparation to serving.

You can also opt for Instant Pot version if you want your soup done quicker- in about 30 minutes.

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Why You'll Love This Vegetable Soup

1. There are endless possibilities for customization. Change the vegetables, the beans or seasonings to suit your preferences.
2. It's highly nutritious!
3. This recipe is chock full of rich flavors and coziness. The combination of different vegetables, herbs, and spices creates a harmonious blend of tastes and depths.
4. It's easy to prepare.
5. Soup is an excellent way to use up leftover vegetables, minimizing food waste.

Ingredients

• Ditalini pasta:or other short pasta.
• Broth base: the broth is made with a combination of vegetable broth and vegetable juice. You can also use vegetable stock or chicken broth for a non-vegetarian version.
• Vegetables: canned corn, canned tomatoes, canned green beans, carrots and celery.
• Aromatics: garlic and onions.
• Herbs and spices: thyme, parsley, basil, salt and black pepper.
• Legumes: cannellini beans or other cooked beans.

Other vegetables and legumes that your kids might find satisfying in their soup are:

• Cabbage
• Chickpeas
• Kale
• Leeks
• Peas
• Peppers
• Potatoes
• Red kidney beans
• Shallots
• Spinach
• Sweet Potatoes
• Zucchini

Recipe Tips

• Use your kids' favorite vegetables and beans.
• Instead of ditalini pasta, use a fun shape like dinosaurs, alphabets, princesses or animals.
• Before adding the pasta at the end, blend the soup as much as needed so the vegetables become blended into the broth.
• Chop the veggies as small as necessary to trick your kids into eating them. For instance, my 4-year old doesn't like celery. But if I roughly chop them into little squares and odd shapes rather than the classic U shapes, she has no idea they are there.

Is Vegetable Noodle Soup Healthy?

Yes! This soup has only 67 calories per 8 ounces and it's full of calcium and potassium while being low in fat.

What Are The Best Vegetables To Put In Vegetable Soup?

What's The Secret Ingredient To Making Great Vegetable Soup?

In this vegetable noodle soup, V8 is my secret ingredient to giving it a big boost in flavor.

How Can I Get My Kids To Eat It?

My 2 tricks for getting the kids to eat their vegetable soup are first, using the vegetables that I know they like or the vegetables that easily break down and turn soft. I also cut the vegetables up into very small pieces or partially blend the soup before adding in the pasta so that most of the vegetables become unrecognizable as such. Second, I use a lot of pasta in fun shapes like mini bow ties, elbows, alphabet shapes or wagon wheels. There are even fun noodles like dinosaurs and princesses!

Vegetable Noodle Soup Recipe

This Vegetable Noodle Soup Recipe is full of delicious and nutritious vegetables and protein-packed beans and ditalini pasta. It's simple to make and is a kid-friendly vegetable soup that will be loved by the whole family.

Nutrition

Serving: 8ozCalories: 67kcalCarbohydrates: 12gProtein: 2gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 0.2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 580mgPotassium: 232mgFiber: 2gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 3633IUVitamin C: 19mgCalcium: 36mgIron: 1mg