Description
This hearty Veggie Dumpling Soup combines tender baby potatoes and fresh vegetables in a flavorful broth with fluffy homemade dumplings. Perfectly seasoned with thyme and garlic, this comforting soup offers a satisfying vegetarian meal that is easy to prepare and full of delicious textures.
Ingredients
Scale
Dumplings
- 2 cups (250g) all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 3/4 cup milk
Soup
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 carrots, sliced into half coins
- 2 celery stalks, diced
- 1-2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1.5 pounds baby potatoes, halved
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 cups vegetable or chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
Instructions
- Sauté Vegetables: Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add diced onion, carrots, and celery, and sauté for about 5 minutes until the vegetables begin to soften.
- Add Garlic and Potatoes: Stir in the minced garlic and cook for 1 minute until fragrant. Add halved baby potatoes, 1/2 teaspoon salt, dried thyme, and the broth. Cover the pot and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes.
- Prepare Dumpling Dough: While the soup simmers, combine flour, baking powder, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and dried thyme in a bowl and mix well. Pour in the milk and melted butter over the dry ingredients and gently stir with a spatula until just combined. Do not overmix to keep dumplings light and fluffy. Divide the dough into 15-16 even pieces.
- Add Peas and Dumplings: After the initial simmer, stir frozen peas into the soup. Spoon dumplings evenly over the surface of the soup, spreading them out so they have space to puff up. Cover the pot and cook for 15 minutes without lifting the lid, until dumplings are cooked through and a toothpick inserted into a dumpling comes out clean.
Notes
- Do not overmix the dumpling dough to keep dumplings tender and light.
- Cover the pot tightly while dumplings cook to ensure proper steaming and rising.
- You can substitute vegetable broth for chicken broth to keep the recipe fully vegetarian.
- Serve hot with fresh herbs like parsley if desired for extra flavor and color.
- The dumplings can be shaped smaller or larger depending on preference; adjust cooking time slightly if needed.
