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Mix and Match for Easy Weeknight Meals

Learn how to choose broth, bulk, and vegetables for quick soup recipes.

December 10, 2020 By Mary's Nest Leave a Comment

Mix and Match for Easy Weeknight Meals

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In today’s vodcast, I chat about a Mix and Match strategy for pulling together easy weeknight meals that can be ready in minutes.

Get to know more about some of the topics I discuss in the following blog post sections:

  • Mix and Match Soup Ingredients
  • Soup Recipes for Easy Weeknight Meals
  • Making Delightful Soup Sides
  • Cooking with Grains
  • More Kitchen Pioneer Videos

These conversational vodcasts are available to the Kitchen Pioneers who have joined my YouTube membership community—The Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy.

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Mix and Match Soup Ingredients

As one of the options for an easy mix and match weeknight meal, you can make soup. For a mix and match soup, you’ll want to choose an ingredient from each of the following categories:

  • Broth – Choose a beef, chicken, fish, pork, or turkey bone broth.
  • Bulk – Choose a starch, like rice, beans, whole grains, and pasta.
  • Vegetables – See below.

For your soup’s vegetables, I like using a basic Mirepoix that includes onions, carrots, and celery. You can easily create your own Mirepoix. In the following recipe video, I show you how to make and dehydrate Mirepoix so it will be shelf-stable, enabling you to store it in your long-term pantry. That way you’ll always have it available whenever you want to make soup!

How to Make Mirepoix and Dehydrate It - FOOD DEHYDRATING 101 Video
  • How to Make Mirepoix and Dehydrate It – FOOD DEHYDRATING 101

You can also choose from other vegetables, depending on what is in season, such as:

  • Selection of greens
  • Zucchinis and other squashes
  • Potatoes (both white and sweet)
  • Green beans

Although technically a grain, corn can be an excellent choice. The same is true for peas. Although they are technically a legume, you can still include peas in your soup under the vegetable umbrella.

Revisiting the broth category, if you’re new to making bone broth, you can learn how to make a beef bone broth in my complete cooking class for Kitchen Pioneers.

  • How to Make Beef Bone Broth – Full Length Cooking Class

Soup Recipes for Easy Weeknight Meals

Try any of these easy soups for delicious weeknight meals with the following recipe videos. You can also add homemade sides that I show you how to make in the Making Delightful Soup Sides section.

  • Chicken Tortilla Soup – Ready in 10 Minutes! – Pantry Challenge
Beef and Barley Soup Recipe Video
  • Easy Beef and Barley Soup Recipe – Makes Bone Broth Too!
Mary holding a bowl of chicken soup.
  • Easy Chicken Soup Recipe Made with Bone Broth
  • Best Bean Soup with Ham Recipe – Easy 15 Bean Soup
Chickpea and Pork Rib Soup Recipe Video
  • Chickpea and Pork Rib Soup Recipe – A Northern Italian All Saints’ Day Tradition
  • Instant Pot Super Mineral Broth Vegetable Soup

If you’re looking for a jump start to a sliming soup for the new year, try one of these skinny soups.

Skinny Soups 101 - Start Slimming Today with Weight Loss Soups! Video
  • Skinny Soups 101 – Start Slimming Today with Weight Loss Soups
More Skinny Soups for Weight Loss Recipe Video
  • Skinny Soup – Start Slimming Today with this “Prebiotic” Rich Soup

Making Delightful Soup Sides

If you have an opportunity to make these sides ahead of time, any soup would enjoy an accompaniment of homemade sourdough bread or some cheese and homemade crackers along with a side of fermented veggies. Here are a few recipes to get you started making a traditional food that would go well alongside your soup.

Fast No Knead Sourdough Recipe Video
  • No Knead Sourdough Bread Recipe – FAST and FOOLPROOF
  • How to Make Easy Slice and Bake Healthy Crackers
How to Ferment Vegetables Giardiniera Recipe Video
  • How to Make Fermented Giardiniera – Probiotic Rich Italian Pickle Relish

Cooking with Grains

To speed up your soup-making process, be sure to have some pre-cooked beans and grains on hand that can be used to make any soup more filling.

How to Soak and Sprout Beans YouTube video
  • How to Soak and Sprout Beans – Techniques for Seasonal Differences

In the following video, I show you have to make your own sprouted flour. Note that the first part of the video shows you how to soak and sprout grains, and you can add the sprouted grains to any soup for an extra boost of nutrition.

How to Make Sprouted Flour at Home YouTube Video
  • How to Make Sprouted Flour at Home
  • Wheat Berries FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions About Wheat Berries

More Kitchen Pioneer Videos

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Remember that you’re always welcome to post questions and comments on my videos at any time, and I’m glad to reply.

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