CREAMY VEGAN POTATO AND ONION SOUP

With winter here it's time to  bring more warmth, nutrition and tasty meals to your family. Vegan meals have come along way in recent times, but this meal would even keep the most steadfast carnivore licking their lips.

Ingredients:

• 2 onions, diced
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 4 cloves of garlic, chopped
• 6 medium-sized potatoes, chopped
• 2 small sprigs of fresh thyme
• 1/8 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
• 2 cups (500ml) unsweetened plain soy milk
• 3 cups (750ml) vegetable stock or boiling water
• ¼ cup nutritional yeast
• Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:

1. Add the onions to a large saucepan on high heat with the lid fully on for around a minute or two.
2. Add in the oil and stir constantly for a minute until they start to colour nicely.
3. Add in the garlic and stir for an additional minute. You'll release a beautiful aroma.
4. Add in the garlic and stir for an additional minute. You'll release a beautiful aroma.
5. Now add in the potatoes, thyme, nutmeg, soy milk and veg stock/water and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium and allow to simmer for 25 minutes or until the potato falls apart when you pierce a knife through it.
6. Once it's cooked, stir in the nutritional yeast. Remove the thyme sticks (the leaves would have fallen off into the soup for flavour).
7. Using a high powered Optimum blender, blend the soup until smooth. Just be careful not to burn yourself.
8. Season to taste and serve straight away.

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