Veggie Minestrone Soup

Ingredients:

• 1.5 tbs olive oil
• 1 small onion minced
• 2 thin small carrots diced
• 1 small potato diced
• 1/4 pepper diced
• Half a celery diced
• 1 small tomato diced (optional)
• 1/8 cup green peas
• Less than 1/4 cup beet stems diced
• 1 & 1/2 cups of (625 ml) consomme water (chicken broth is okay. I use "Oofu dashi" 欧風だし)
• 3/4 cup of tomato puree/sauce (I use "MUIR GLEN Organic Tomato Basil)
• 3/4 tsp salt
• Pinch of pepper

1. Chop all the vegetables and cook onion, carrots and potato with oil in a pot quickly.
2. Add water and consomme powder when it simmers and add pepper and celery and cook them for about 5 - 10 minutes.
3. Flavor the soup with tomato puree/sauce and salt and pepper.
4. Add tomatoes and green peas and cook them all for another 5 minutes or less until vegetables soften and serve.