Don’t you just love it when you’re able to can/jar a product and all its contents are from your garden? Well that’s what I’ve got going on here – a garden vegetable soup preserved with my new pressure canner. The first batch made 3 quarts, and the second batch made 6 quarts and 1 pint (hiding behind the big guys). Finally – my world has just opened up another chapter on what to do with all these tomatoes. I just love this pressure canner !!
If anyone has other recipes for tomatoes … please share them as I have tons that I’ve picked that are sitting in boxes; with more so still growing in the garden. Enjoy 🙂
GARDEN VEGETABLE SOUP
INGREDIENTS
4 carrots, sliced
2 medium zucchini, halved and sliced
2 onions, chopped
6 celery stalks, chopped
3 corn on the cobs, shaved
4 garlic cloves, minced
20 nice size tomatoes, prepared below
1 tsp salt
2 tsp fresh ground pepper
1 tbls fresh Basil
1 tbls fresh Thyme
Olive oil
2 lemons, juiced
1\2 cup of water
1 cup beans (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Heat up the olive oil in a large pot. Sauté the onions, corn, celery and garlic for 2 minutes. Add carrots, zucchini, basil, thyme, water, salt and pepper – stir together and cook on a slow simmer while you’re preparing the tomatoes.
THE TOMATOES
Drop 4-5 tomatoes in a pot of pre-boiled water for 30 seconds to loosen the skin. Remove them from the pot (be careful because they’re hot to handle), slip the skins off the tomatoes and remove the cores. Place them in another bowl while you repeat the process with the rest of the tomatoes.
Once all are de-skinned and their cores removed, squish the tomatoes with your hands or use a potato masher and make them into bite size pieces.
Add the squished tomatoes to your soup pot along with the lemon juice and beans (optional). Mix together and simmer for 1 hour.
Ladle the soup into very warm and clean jars, leaving 1/4″ head space. Seal with lids and tops and place them in your prepared pressure canner for 25 minutes. Remove from canner and let them sit on your kitchen counter for 24 hours.
Viola – home made and home grown vegetable soup for storage.
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