Best Garden Vegetable Soup Recipe - Our WabiSabi Life (2024)

Get ready to knock your taste buds out of this world with this Instant Pot Garden Vegetable Soup. This is the perfect way to use up your fresh garden harvest or warm your bones up on a cool evening.

Best Garden Vegetable Soup Recipe

Whether you’re looking to clean out the refrigerator or use up the fresh garden harvest of vegetables, this is by far the best garden vegetable soup to make.

You’ll be even happier to learn that you can make this soup in less than half an hour, including prep time, using your Instant Pot.

The seasonings and spices add a flavorful combination to this vegetable soup giving you a slight kick from the crushed red pepper flakes.

This is an excellent way to enjoy using up those vegetables so they don’t go bad and providing your family with many of the much-needed nutrients vegetables give our bodies.

What Vegetables Go In Soup?

This flexible “clean out the refrigerator” recipe can be adapted countless ways to include whatever fresh vegetables and herbs you happen to have on hand.

I’m using carrots, celery, red onion, red potatoes, and cherry tomatoes in my best garden vegetable soup in my Instant Pot.

Some of the other types of vegetables that work well in vegetable soup include beets, squash, turnips, parsnips, and cauliflower.

You’ll find that just about any vegetable combo will work in this garden vegetable soup, so feel free to swap a few of my vegetables out for your preferred flavor.

Can I Season With Different Herbs?

I love the seasonings that I’ve opted for in my best garden vegetable soup. The herbs listed in this recipe include garlic cloves, crushed red pepper flakes, sea salt, pepper, and bay leaves. I’ve seen other garden vegetable soup recipes with thyme, oregano, or Italian seasoning and curry powder or paprika.

How Many Weight Watchers Points in Vegetable Soup

I love this Garden vegetable soup. It comes in at 3 points on each plan. If you wanted to decrease the points of this Weight Watchers Soup, you can decrease the oil and the potatoes since these are the things that increase the point count.

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Ingredients

Get the full list of ingredients, with measurements, and step-by-step instructions at the bottom of the post in the printable recipe card.

• Extra virgin olive oil
• Garlic,
• Celery
• Carrots
• Red onion- Learn How to Cut Onions without Crying
• Red pepper flakes
• Salt & Pepper
• Chicken broth or vegetable broth
• Red potatoes
• Whole bay leaves
• Cherry or grape tomatoes
• Fresh arugula
• Lime juice
• Parmesan cheese

Tougher herbs, such as rosemary and thyme, can be added prior to cooking, while more tender options, such as basil and parsley, should be stirred in when the arugula is added. (Discard the woody stems for the tougher herbs before serving).

How to Make Garden Vegetable Soup

Add olive oil to your Instant Pot and select the saute function. Add the minced garlic, celery, carrots, red onion, and crushed red pepper flakes. Season the mixture with sea salt and black pepper to taste and stir to combine.

Stirring occasionally, saute until fragrant and the vegetables start to develop some color. This will take approximately 4-5 minutes. Add broth and stir to combine. Scrape any of the brown bits off the bottom of the Instant Pot int he process, turn off the unit.

Next, you’ll add your potatoes, bay leaves, and chopped tomatoes to your Instant Pot. Add lid, and lock into place. Switch the vent to sealing and set the manual setting for 3 minutes.

Allow the pressure to release naturally for 10 minutes once the cooking time is complete. Then manually release any remaining pressure.

Remove the lid and discard the bay leaves. Stir fresh arugula and lime juice in. You may add additional sea salt and black pepper if desired. Stir to combine.

Serve immediately garnished with freshly shaved or grated Parmesan cheese and enjoy!

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