Basic vegetable soup Vegan

Name: Basic vegetable soup
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 8 persons
Cuisine: World
Ingredients: 1/2 celery root; 2 large handful of celery leaves; 1/2 1 leek; 2 onions; 2 carrots; 3 bay leaves; 1 piece of mace; about 10 peppercorns; olive oil; 2,5 liter water; salt to taste

A basic vegetable soup can vary all the time, you can add all kinds of veggies to empty your fridge. Add tiny meatballs for a non-vegetarian version.

Recipe basic vegetable soup

Made by Véronique

Published at 2017-01-16, this recipe is for 8 persons and takes 1 hours 15 minutes.

Founder of Ohmydish (since 2014), she prefers to spend all day in the kitchen. Once working in the hospitality industry as an independent chef, she loves helping you gain confidence in the kitchen. With her easy-to-follow recipes, handy tips, and cooking knowledge, you'll make the most delicious dishes yourself! The recipes are accessible to everyone, from beginners to advanced home cooks.

Updated at: 2025-07-19

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Preparation time

1 hours

Time cooking

15 minutes

Total time

1 hours 15 minutes

Preparation - 1 hour

First we're going to create a tasteful water, if you don't want that you can also use regular vegetable stock cubes instead. If so, you can skip this step. Roughly chop half a leek, 1 onion, a quarter of a celery root and 1 carrot.

There's no need to peel the onion and carrot, cause that will give the water even more flavour. Transfer the chopped veggies to the colander and rinse them well. Heat a bit of olive oil in the large pan and sauté the veggies for about 5 minutes.

Pour in the water along with the mace, bay leaves, peppercorns and half of the celery leaves. Place the lid on and bring to a boil. Let it simmer for about 45 minutes.

Meanwhile peel and rinse the rest of the celery root, carrot and leek. Chop the celery root and carrot into cubes and the leek into half rings. Peel and finely chop the second onion.

Roughly chop the celery leaves.

Finishing the basic vegetable soup - 15 minutes

Sieve the soup into the other large pan and throw out the veggies. Add the celery root and carrot cubes, finely chopped onion and leek and bring to a boil. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes, so the veggies won't become too soft.

For the last minute also add the chopped celery leaves and season with salt. This is a vegetarian version, but you can also add small meatballs.

You can also add any leftover veggies to empty your fridge. Enjoy!