J J's Smoked Gouda Vegetable Soup

Serves: 4

Clarabelle Lynch

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

51

Spice

67

Sweetness

51

Sourness

34

mins

Prep time (avg)

4.5

Difficulty

Ingredients:

1.5 cups

Onion (sliced)

1

Salt

Directions:

1

Render bacon slowly in nonstick skillet over medium-low heat until crisp

2

Remove bacon from pan, reserve for garnish, and heat fat on medium-low

3

Add onion and cook for 3 minutes

4

Add garlic and continue cooking until onions are translucent

5

Do not allow garlic to burn

6

Transfer onions and garlic to a soup pot

7

Add carrots, tomatoes, and season with salt and pepper

8

Cook on medium heat for 5 minutes

9

Add the beans, red peppers, chicken broth, zucchini, and yellow squash

10

Bring to a boil

11

Add basil and oregano

12

Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes

13

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

14

Spray baguette slices with cooking spray and lightly toast in oven

15

Sprinkle Parmesan cheese and paprika on toast and toast until light brown and bubbly

16

Five minutes before serving, add Gouda cheese to soup and allow a few minutes for cheese to soften

17

Ladle soup into serving bowls

18

Sprinkle reserved bacon over top

19

Place 2 slices of toast per serving on top of soup

20

Mix flour and salt in a bowl

21

Remove 1/3 cup of the mixture and set aside

22

Add the chilled shortening and, using a pastry cutter, incorporate until shortening and flour become pea-sized (be patient), set aside

23

Use reserved 1/3 cup of flour/salt mixture and 1/4 cup of water, mix to make a paste

24

Using hands, add paste to flour/shortening mixture and work it just enough for paste to cover everything - don't work it too much

25

Roll out dough, and then roll onto pin to transfer to pie tin

26

Fill with preferred pumpkin pie or other pie filling