Roasted Garlic Noodle Soup
This Roasted Garlic Noodle Soup is the perfect cozy comfort food for when you're feeling under the weather. It's packed with roasted garlic and veggies!
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Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil or vegan butter
- 1 small onion diced
- 2 carrots peeled and sliced
- 2 stalks celery sliced
- 10 cups vegetable broth divided
- 1 handful baby spinach or kale chopped
- 1 bay leaf
- 2-3 sprigs fresh herbs of choice such as rosemary, thyme, or sage
- 6 ounces dry pasta of choice I like fusilli or bowties
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice from about half a lemon
- 2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley or dill optional
Roasted Garlic
- 2 heads garlic
- olive oil
- salt
Instructions
Prepare the Roasted Garlic
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Peel off the outer, papery layers of skin from the garlic.
- With the bulb still intact, chop off the tops of the heads of garlic, exposing the cloves inside.
- Place garlic heads on a sheet of tin foil, or in a small, heavy baking dish.
- Liberally drizzle olive oil over the garlic, allowing oil to seep in between the cloves. Season with salt.
- Wrap garlic securely with tin foil and place on a baking sheet (just in case oil drips). If using a heavy baking dish, cover with a lid or tinfoil.
- Roast until soft and lightly caramelized. Exact time will vary depending on size of garlic. I like to start checking for color at 45 minutes. If it looks a little pale, wrap it back up and bake in additional 5 minute increments until it reaches the perfect texture.
- Remove and let it cool.
Making the Soup
- In a large pot, heat olive oil or vegan butter over medium-high heat.
- Add in celery, carrot, and onion and sauté for 3-5 minutes, or until the onion is translucent.
- Pour in vegetable broth, preserving 1 cup for later. Let it come to a boil.
- In the meantime, gather a few sprigs of fresh herbs like rosemary, thyme, and sage. Tie them with kitchen twine so you can easily remove them later. (You can also make an herb sachet with a piece of cheesecloth if you like.) If you'd like to sub in dried ground herbs, see the notes.
- Place the herb bundle in the soup along with bay leaves. Once the soup comes to a boil, reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer for at least 30 minutes, or up to 2 hours.
- When the veggies are as tender as you like, add in your dried pasta. Let it simmer until very al dente — usually about 8-10 minutes depending on your pasta shape. Make sure to stir it every now and then so the pasta doesn't stick together (or to the bottom of the pot).
- In the meantime, extract the cloves of roasted garlic from the skins. Place the roasted garlic in a blender along with 1 cup of vegetable broth and blend until smooth. (If you don't want to use a blender, you can also simply chop/mash the garlic into a paste.)
- Once the pasta is almost done, pour in the roasted garlic broth (or add the roasted garlic paste with 1 cup veggie broth). Add in your handful of greens. Let the soup keep simmering (just a few extra minutes) until the pasta is fully cooked and the greens are wilted.
- Remove the herb bundle/sachet. Squeeze in fresh lemon juice and fresh chopped parsley/dill. Add extra salt and pepper to taste.
- Enjoy immediately!
Notes
To avoid mushy noodles: If you think you'll have a lot of leftover soup, you may wish to cook your pasta separately (in heavily salted water) and so you can keep them separate and the noodles don't get soggy.
Pasta choices: Fusilli is my go-to for this soup (specifically the Rao's fusilli). But sometimes I'll switch it up with ditalini, orzo, or stelline. Just adjust the cook time accordingly, since smaller shapes will cook faster.
Broth: Regular vegetable broth from a carton will work in this recipe. If you want to boost the umami you can instead use water and a good chicken-style bouillon (I like the vegetarian one from Better Than Bouillon).
Dried herbs: If you don't want to sub in dried herbs, try 1/2 teaspoon ground rosemary, 1/2 teaspoon thyme, and 1/4 teaspoon sage. Dried herbs can be quite potent, so you might want to start with less and then add more depending on your preference.
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