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Healthy Gut-Friendly Vegetable Soup in the Instant Pot
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Healthy Gut-Friendly Vegetable Soup in the Instant Pot

Make Healthy Gut-Friendly Vegetable Soup in the Instant Pot, that is delicious and hearty and perfect for restoring your gut health.
Course dinner, lunch
Keyword green soup, Gut Friendly, gut healing, Gut Health, happy gut, Soup, vegan
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 4
Author Cat Barker

Equipment

  • Instant Pot, but can also be made in a normal pot.
  • chopping board
  • knife

Ingredients

  • 300 g butternut cubed
  • 1 leek, only green part sliced
  • 2 celery stalks chopped
  • 1 carrot chopped
  • 2 cm ginger grated
  • 3 baby marrow sliced
  • 200 g baby spinach
  • 1 handful italian parsley fresh
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 vegetable stock cube
  • 1 litre water
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 can plain chopped tomatoes
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • 1/2 Lemon

Instructions

  • Chop and slice all veggies as per above
  • Melt coconut oil in the instant pot using the saute function and add leek, carrot, spinach celery, ginger, butternut and baby marrrow. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring continuously.
  • Now add tomato paste, canned tomatoes, hot water and stock cube. Stir well.
  • Close the Instant Pot lid and set for 15 minutes with natural release.
  • After the cooking cycle is finished, carefully move the venting knob from Sealing Position to Venting Position to quickly release the pressure. Wait until the Floating Valve (metal pin) completely drops before opening the lid.
  • Add half of the fresh parsley and blend the soup with a stick blender until smooth.
  • Serve with salt, pepper, remainder fresh herbs (i used some thyme as well) a squeeze of lemon and a sprinkle of nutritional yeast.

Notes

Make sure to use an organic preservative-free stock cube.