Portuguese Bean Soup/Sopa De Feijao

Portuguese bean soup which is quite an easy, healthy, filling and fantastic soup with plenty of veggies and beans..This portuguese bean soup is one of the local favourite and this soup tastes incredible when its cold or rainy days..Its seems each and everyone had their own personnal interpretation of this dish and traditionally this dish is mainly prepared with tomato base ingredients and gets its rich flavour from smoked ham hocks which i completely omitted in this recipe and prepared with plenty of veggies like carrots, potatoes, cabbages, celery ,diced tomatoes cooked with tomato paste and herbs with tinned red kidney beans..We enjoyed having this fantastic, filling and hearty soup for our dinner yesterday and we loved it...These soup goes directly to AWED-Portuguese which am hosting,the event started by DK..

2nos Yellow onions (chopped)

1cup Carrots (diced)

1cup Celery (diced)

3nos Potatoes (cubed)

3cups Cabbage (chopped coarsely)

4nos Tomatoes (diced)

2tbsp Tomato paste

3nos Garlic cloves (minced)

2cans Red kidney beans

5cups Vegetable broth

1/4cup Parsley leaves (chopped)

3nos Bay leaves

3/4tsp Pepper powder

Olive oil

Salt

In a large pot, heat the olive oil and saute the bay leaves, chopped onions and minced garlic cloves..once the onions turns transculent, add the chopped parsley leaves, followed by diced carrots, diced celery, diced tomatoes,diced potatoes and saute for few minutes, finally add the chopped cabbages,tomato paste, salt, pepper powder and cook everything again for few minutes, now add the red kidney beans and vegetable broth, keep the flame in medium flame and cook everything for 20minutes..finally put the flame to simmer and cook until the veggies get well cooked..

Serve hot with chopped parsley leaves and with buttered bread slices..