The Secret To My 4 easiest Homemade Soups: Use Salsa as Your Base

It's soup season 🍅🥕🥔🍠 and a hot nourishing bowl of homemade soup may be just what you are craving to warm up and get cozy on a cold winter night. 

I'm reposting 4 of my easiest homemade soup recipes which use a jar of salsa as my soup base. Using salsa as a soup base is a great kitchen hack. 

There are quite a few reasons that I use salsa for making soups

• Salsa is a time-saving, healthy, and flavorful idea that can elevate your cooking game with minimal effort. Salsa, packed with fresh vegetables such as tomatoes, onions, and peppers, and provides a natural, low-calorie, low-fat foundation for soups, eliminating the need for lengthy chopping and simmering of ingredients.
•  It has a zesty kick brings immediate depth to your dish, while offering a variety of essential vitamins and antioxidants, thanks to its veggie-packed content.

• It saves time without sacrificing taste or nutrition. Plus, it’s a versatile base that can be customized to suit any flavor profile, making it a go-to shortcut for busy weeknights when you want a healthy, delicious meal in no time.

• Onions, garlic, bell peppers, tomatoes, hot peppers, spices - all of the ingredients that make a good base for many soup recipes. You choose from mild, medium, or hot salsa.

•  I always use organic salsa which contains all organic vegetables. Organic vegetables may otherwise be hard to find, may be expensive, or difficult to always have on hand. This is a game changer.  

If you are busy, don't like to cook, or just want a fast and easy recipe, you may yourself falling in love with my four easiest ever soup recipes using my simple "salsa" method. 

Choose from any or all of these healthy soups:

• Easiest Black Bean Soup  
• Spicy Cabbage Soup
• Sweet Potato (or butternut squash) Spicy Soup
• Red Lentil Vegetable Soup 

All four soup recipes start with the same base- a jar of organic salsa. 

My Fast and Easy Method: 

1. Open the jar of salsa and pour into Instant Pot liner.

2. Add remainder of ingredients to the liner and close lid. Set timer. When done, in under a half hour, enjoy a bowl of homemade, healthy, fiber rich, soup!!

Easiest Black Bean Soup  link to recipe)

Sweet Potato (or butternut squash) Spicy Soup-link to recipe)

Red 

Spicy Cabbage Soup - a staple and favorite in our home. 

Red Lentil Vegetable Soup  (link to recipe)

My Notes: 

1. All of these soup recipes meet gluten-free, dairy-free, kosher-parve, and vegan standards. All can be made oil-free as well. 

2.We love cabbage and use cabbage in the following delicious  recipes: 

• unstuffed easy cabbage rolls
• red and orange coleslaw 
•  red cabbage potato salad, 
•  my flu fighting winter soup  
•  Asian Quinoa Slaw  
• red lentil golden borsht. 
• Follow the links for the recipes.