This vegan French onion soup (Ela Vegan) is a nice simple recipe to replace conventional French onion soup that usually contains beef stock. This cooks onions in vegan butter (Flora is free from palm oil) and adds lentils, good veggie broth, bay leaf and wine. Once cooked, remove the bay leaf, season and serve with grilled bread and vegan cheese.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets. Just bin garlic/onion/allium scraps (plus citrus and rhubarb) as the acids can harm compost creatures.
This soup contains lentils, which give the soup lots of protein and calcium. Lentils are popular in Italian and Middle East cuisine, and very easy to cook. They are also cheap and filling. In fact, this plant-based French onion soup is way higher in protein than most watery tinned soups, which are not even vegetarian. Who said that vegans can’t get their protein?
If you like making soup, invest in a stick blender, as it saves all the faffing around with washing jug blenders. When buying a new electrical appliance, UK says the store has to take the old one back. So take the dusty broken jug blender back to the store you buy a new one from, and it will be recycled on for you.
Also invest in Souper Cubes. Made from silicone, just pour leftover soup in, then freeze and the soup is ready to thaw and cook, whenever you want it.
