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Want a healthier gut? Science says to eat more vegetables. 🥕 Incorporating more plants into your diet shouldn’t feel stressful, overwhelming, or intimidating. It should feel fun and easy. My vegetable gut-healing soup recipe is the best soup for gut health! It includes nine plants, is made in one pan (plus a blender!), and is delicious. 😋

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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Vegetable Gut-Healing Soup Recipe 

About five years ago, my New Year’s mission was to improve my gut health, and I have come a long way from when I had chronic gut infections in my 20s. My gut has never felt stronger 💪 and more aligned than it does today, and it’s because I changed my mindset and diet and researched for countless hours how to strengthen my gut microbiome. 

One of my main focuses is to eat more vegetables daily, and that’s where this healthy vegetable gut-healing soup comes in. It’s packed with seven veggies, two herbs, bone broth, and nutritional yeast. It’s a yummy way to get your vegetable serving and is high in protein.

🥣 Vegetable Gut-Healing Soup Ingredients 

  • Vegetables: This vegetable soup has seven veggies: Roma and cherry tomatoes, butternut squash, carrots, bell peppers, zucchini, and garlic.
  • Olive Oil coats the vegetables before adding the spices.
  • Herbs: Fresh parsley and dried thyme
  • Nutritional Yeast keeps the soup dairy-free, thickens it, and provides fiber, protein, vitamins, and minerals.
  • Sea Salt seasons the soup and brings the flavors together.
  • Bone Broth provides additional protein and collagen compared to regular broth. Bonafide Provisions bone broth is my go-to. However, if you are a vegetarian, use vegetable broth.

👩‍🍳 How to Make Vegetable Gut-Healing Soup

  1. Prep the Veggies: Put all the vegetables in an oiled cast-iron skillet, toss with olive oil, and season with herbs, salt, and nutritional yeast.
  2. Roast the Veggies at 400℉ for 45 minutes until soft.
  3. Garlic: Let the vegetables cool. Squeeze the roasted garlic out of the papery skins.
  4. Puree: Put everything in a blender and puree until smooth.

📹 Watch me make this easy gut-healing soup on Instagram.

🪄 Tips and Tricks

  • If you don’t have a cast-iron skillet, use any deep, oven-safe skillet.
  • You could use a food processor if you don’t have a blender.

🗒 Variations

  • 🌿 Garnish with fresh parsley or other herbs.
  • 🍋 Lemon Juice: Squeeze some fresh lemon into the soup before serving for a bright citrus taste.
  • 🌶️ Heat: Add crushed red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper for a spicy kick.

🗒 Substitutions 

  • Butternut Squash: Swap it with sweet potato or acorn squash.
  • Tomatoes: Switch out Romas with Beefsteak or Campari tomatoes and substitute cherry with grape tomatoes. If you don’t want to buy cherry tomatoes, use an extra half cup of Romas.
  • Bell Pepper: Use any color pepper.
  • Zucchini: Sub yellow squash.
  • Herbs: You can use pretty much any variety of fresh and dried herbs. Rosemary and oregano would also work. 
  • Nutritional Yeast: If you don’t want to buy nutritional yeast, replace it with parmesan cheese.
  • Vegan Vegetable Soup: Use vegetable broth.
  • Broth Alternative: For a creamier soup, substitute unsweetened milk. I use almond milk to keep it dairy-free.

🍽️ Best served with

👝 How to Store Vegetable Soup

This vegetarian gut-healing soup will last up to four days in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It’s also perfect for freezing. It’ll last about three months and can be thawed in the fridge. If you’re in a rush, microwave the frozen soup until warm or heat it on the stove.

🤔 Common Questions

What can you add to vegetable soup to make it thicker?

Besides adding cream or milk, roasting and blending the veggies will make your soup thicker. Nutritional yeast also helps. 

How do you diversify your gut microbiome?

The American Gut Study, the largest published study to date of the human microbiome, found that people regularly eating “more than 30 different types of plant foods” (fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds) each week had a more diverse microbiome than those eating “10 or fewer different plant types.”

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Vegetable Gut-Healing Soup

Want a healthier gut? Science says to eat more vegetables. My vegetable gut-healing soup recipe is the best soup for gut health! It includes nine plants, is made in one pan (plus a blender!), and is delicious.

Equipment

  • Cast-iron skillet (or oven-proof skillet)
  • Blender

Ingredients 

  • 1 ½ cups Roma tomatoes, diced
  • 1 ½ cups butternut squash, cubed, frozen or fresh
  • 1 carrot, chopped
  • 1 red bell pepper, seeds removed, chopped
  • ½ medium zucchini, chopped
  • 1 handful of cherry tomatoes
  • 2 heads of garlic, top cut off
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 sprigs parsley
  • 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 1 tsp dried thyme

Instructions 

  • Preheat the oven to 400℉. Put Roma tomatoes, butternut squash, carrots, bell peppers, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, and heads of garlic in a well-oiled cast-iron skillet.
  • Drizzle with the oil and add the parsley sprigs. Sprinkle nutritional yeast, salt, and dried thyme over the vegetables. Toss the vegetables until they are well coated.
  • Place the skillet in the oven and cook for 45 minutes until the vegetables are soft.
  • Let the vegetables cool. Squeeze out the roasted garlic and discard the papery skin.
  • Add the veggies to a blender and blend with bone broth or milk until smooth.

Notes

  • For vegan and vegetarian soup, use vegetable broth.
  • For a creamier soup, substitute the broth with any unsweetened milk or milk alternative (I like almond milk). (If you use regular milk, it’ll be vegetarian; if you use a milk alternative, it’ll be vegan.)

Additional Info

Course: Soup
Cuisine: American
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About Nicole Jaques

I’m a wife, mom of two, home cook, and avid entertainer. I have developed my own DIY cleaners that are low tox and take pride in having a home that is clean and organized. However, I am human! I like to see dirt under my nails from my garden and my children’s handprints on my windows, and I’m one of the messiest cooks you’ll ever meet!

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