Vegetable Vermicelli Clear Soup is an aromatic soup, consisting of seasonal vegetables, vermicelli noodles and a touch of spices, basil and lemon zest.
Author: Meghalee Das
Recipe type: Appetiser
Cuisine: International
Serves: 4
Ingredients
Broth:
Water: 5 cups
Bay leaf: 1
Cinnamon: ½ inch stick
Whole black peppercorns: ½ tsp
Lemon zest: 1 tbsp
Onion: 1 small, halved
Garlic: 2 cloves, smashed
Ginger: ½ inch piece, smashed
Cilantro+Parsley+Basil: A small bunch, tied together
Salt: 1 tsp
Soup:
Olive oil: 1 tsp
Garlic: 1 clove, chopped
Chilli flakes: ½ tsp
Mushrooms: 4, thinly sliced
Zucchini or cucumber: 1 small, cored and thinly sliced
Celery: 1 medium size stalk, chopped
Carrot: ½ cup, julienned (leave some for garnish)
Beet: ½ cup, julienned (leave some for garnish)
Spring/Green onions: 1 stalk, chopped (leave some for garnish)
Tomatoes: ¼th cup, chopped
Soy sauce: 1 tsp
Lemon juice: 1 tbsp
Sugar: ½ tsp
Vermicelli noodles or rice noodles: ½-3/4th cup
Butter: 2 tbsp
Coriander leaves and parsley: 1 tsp, chopped
Salt to taste
Method
Broth:
Boil the water and add the rest of the ingredients. Cover and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Strain and keep aside. This broth can also be frozen and used as a soup base or stock for other preparations, besides this vegetable vermicelli clear soup.
Soup:
Heat oil in a pan and fry the garlic and chilli flakes for a minute. Add the mushrooms, zucchini, celery, carrot, beet and spring onions and saute on medium high for 5 minutes.
Add soy sauce and salt to taste, toss and add the vegetables to the broth we had made earlier. Bring the broth to a boil and add the noodles and butter. Simmer for 10 minutes till the vegetables and noodles are fully cooked.
For garnishing, sprinkle some freshly ground pepper, carrot, beet, chopped spring onions, coriander leaves and parsley.
Serve vegetable vermicelli clear soup hot with toasted garlic bread, where I butter the bread, toast it in the oven and then rub a cut piece of garlic all over it.
Recipe by The Saffron Platter at https://thesaffronplatter.com/494-vegetable-vermicelli-clear-soup.html