HEARTY BEAN AND QUINOA SOUP

Hey everyone, This soup was my dinner tonight, very healthy and very hearty and filling. It has a heap of different veggies chucked in there as well as some quinoa!

ingredients -

2 cups cooked quinoa

1 large capsicum

2 large leeks

1 tin red kidney beans

1 tin lentils

2 large carrot

one potato

1 sweet potato

6 white button mushrooms

2 onions

3 cloves of garlic, crushed

1 litre salt reduced vegetable stock

salt and pepper

4 mini wholemeal pita breads

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 tablespoon paprika

directions -

1. Cut up your potato, sweet potato and carrots into small cubes and boil these in a pot along with the stock.

2. In a pan, fry with a small amount of olive oil, the cut up leeks, chopped onion, chopped capsicum, mushrooms that have been cut into small pieces and some salt and pepper. Fry this until they obtain some colour and then add 1 cup of water to the pan and let simmer for 5 minutes.

3. Once your vegetables cooking in the pot are tender, mash them in the stock with a potato masher or use a stick blender to mash the vegetables to the consistency you'd like. From here, add in your kidney beans, lentils, cooked quinoa and your leek mix. Add salt and pepper until you reach you desired seasoning and let the soup simmer for a few minutes to allow everything to combine properly.

4. While this is happening, cut your pita reads into strips and lay on a baking tray. Drizzle over 1 tablespoon of olive oil, sprinkle 1 tablespoon of paprika and some salt and pepper over and bake these in the oven for around 10 minutes until they become crunchy.

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