What follows is a delicious Whole 30 soup recipe. We just love this soup over here and to know it’s good for you as well as tasty comfort food is a total bonus.
First chop up about a cup each of onion, leeks, celery and carrots. Sauté those in olive oil in a medium size stock pot. Next add about 3 cups of chicken broth. Cube 4-5 large red potatoes and add these to the mix. Once the potatoes are cooked (about 20 minutes) remove half of this vegetable and broth mixture and put it in the blender and purée it. Add it back to the original mix. This will turn your soup into a rich cream soup. At this point I add 2 cups of cubed ham. (I usually buy a couple of ham steaks, chop them into small cubes and sauté them in olive oil before adding them to soup.) add salt, pepper and thyme (to taste) and the final step is to add a couple of cups of chopped kale to the soup. Once it’s wilted it’s time to eat.
Last time I made this I ran out of thyme. It’s amazing how much flavour seasonings will add to whole food. Whole food tastes much better than fast food or processed food but it takes preparation. All I can say is, it’s worth it because it also makes you feel so great. Like you’ve done something good for yourself and everyone else you feed. Try it!
PS – I know you are seeing green beans in the photo. I threw those in that one time to use them up. Peas would also enhance the recipe.
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