A friend gave me the idea to use V8 juice in vegetable soup because it provides more flavor. My best vegetable soup recipe is perfect to prepare on a crisp autumn afternoon. —Janice Steinmetz, Somers, Connecticut

Hearty Vegetable Soup

olive oil

carrots,

onions,

celery ribs, chopped

green pepper,

garlic clove,

cabbage

frozen cut green beans (about 8 ounces)

peas (about 8 ounces)

corn (about 5 ounces)

(15 ounces) garbanzo beans

bay leaf

chicken bouillon granules

parsley flakes

salt

marjoram

thyme

basil

pepper

water

(28 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained

V8 juice

4g protein. <B><b>Diabetic Exchanges</b>: </B> 1 starch.

Hard to mess up this soup--I have made this for years calling it my "clean out the fridge soup".  I have a vegetable garden in the summer and freeze the excess.  Between that and the occasional can of veggies and beans you can easily put this together.  Leave out what you don't like and add more of what you do--canned, fresh or frozen doesn't matter.  I sometimes spice this up to match my mood.

I agree! The V8 juice gives the veggie soup a robust flavor. I wasn’t crazy about the bell pepper and garbanzo beans so will leave them out next time. I might try navy beans though. The protein and fiber from beans are a healthy plus to vegetable soup.

I sell soup and donate the money to charity.  A lot of people are looking for Vegetarian, Gluten Free, Dairy Free , Egg Free soups.  This fits the bill for all categories as long as you do not include the chicken cubes.   It has quickly become a favorite among my customers.  I love all of the ingredients and the cabbage gives it an earthy flavor that hits the spot.

Although I had to leave most of the veggies out due to allergies and family preferences, it was very tasty. I love V8 in soup.

I give this a 4 star review because it's a tasty, healthy meal, but the flavors aren't strong enough for my liking. I'd definitely make this in the future though!

As a vegetarian, I tinker with vegetable soup recipes a lot. I also use V-8 in my soup, and my chili recipe. It was a sneaky way of getting vegetables into my son. I make my soup with vegetable broth, canned corn (I like the texture better than frozen), and always frozen peas if I can’t get my hands on fresh. When was the last time green grocers sold fresh peas? In addition to the chickpeas or garbanzo beans (or as my family refers to them, “butt beans” - have you ever really looked at one?) I toss in lots of other canned beans. Whatever’s handy. Canned beans are great time savers, but you have to rinse them thoroughly. Navy beans are fun; very small with a nice texture. If I have fresh spinach on hand I add that as well. Very minestrone-ish. And always cabbage. So very, very good for you, and even if you don’t like cabbage, with all the wonderful stuff in this soup, the flavors blend beautifully, so no one ingredient overwhelms. Thanks for a great recipe!

Absolutely delicious. Made the second time and added some rotisserie chicken to add protein and more appeal for the guys in my family. But wonderful as written!

BEST VEGGIE SOUP EVER! I have made this soup for years and always get compliments on it. I don't add beans but other than that I follow it exactly. So, so good.

This is a wonderful soup!  Great alone ... or as a soup/sandwich combo! I filled 5 quarts and then pureed the remainder and divided it between the 5 containers for some "thickness".

Now my default vegetable soup recipe. So easy to adjust. I use different stock instead of water depending if I add meat. I use drained black beans and add a couple chopped red potatoes and chopped sweet potato about a cup. I use canned veggies if I don’t have frozen. Adding the liquid from a can of green beans adds just a hint of flavor. I make this soup at least once a week and give a quart of it to a neighbor who is having medical issues. She says it’s the best soup she’s ever had.

We liked this recipe a lot. Don't care for cabbage so left it out. I used vegetable broth in place of the water. We like to have a meatless meal once in a while. Most meatless meals are with pasta or rice. This is a nice change. Thanks for sharing Janice.

I was looking around the Internet for a good vegetable soup recipe and came across this one.  It caught my attention because of the V8 juice ingredient.  I just finished making it, and substituted chicken broth for the water and chicken bouillon.  It is very tasty, just like I anticipated.  It looks beautiful too, with all the colorful veggies in it.  I will make this recipe again!

Very good!  I left out the cabbage and instead of 4 cups of water, I used 1 can of Campbell's chicken broth and added the remaining water to equal 4 cups.  Also omitted the chicken bouillon granules.

Very good comfort food! Taste awesome! Followed recipe took the T and turned out great!

This was INCREDIBLE! I was actually done in 2 hours, but I let had it on warm all day. It was even better reheated after vacuum sealing it. I am Vegan, so I used all Cascadia Farms Organic frozen Vegetables and 2 Rapunzel Vegan Vegetable Bouillon Cubes in the 4 cups of water, replacing the chicken bouillon. Thanks so much for this GREAT recipe!

This is a delicious, low calorie soup.  I substituted 6 cups of beef broth and added an extra cup of V8 juice to give it more broth.  It upped the servings to 18, so it didn't really change the calories per cup.  I also added a 1/2 extra of each spice measurement to balance out the extra liquid used (used garlic salt instead of regular salt) and doubled the garlic.  I added garlic salt, Lawry's season salt, pepper, worcestshire and balsamic vinegar to taste.

I used regular tomato juice, omitted the marjoram and thyme and put one cup dry pasta in place of the cabbage and the pasta cooked right in the soup.  Delicious!

I used homemade bone broth and garden tomato juice. Excellent spice blend for perfect flavor no matter what veggies that you have on hand. Thank you for a well written recipe.

without a doubt the best veg. soup ever. I passed it out to friends and family and all raved and wanted the recipe.I would rate 10 stars if possible.

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hearty vegetable soup

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes

Total: 1 hours, 45 minutes

Servings: 10

Author : Taste of Home

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