Eating My Greens Soup

Lately I’ve been tracking what I eat using Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen app on my phone. (Check it out on iTunes or Google Play.) It appears I’m missing out on cruciferous vegetables and greens. So I came up with a strategy, make a bag of frozen vegetables (cruciferous, of course) and have them with lunch and dinner. So now I’ve tackled one problem but not the other. It’s not that I don’t like greens, well maybe that is it. Anyway I have to trick myself into eating the kale staring at me every time I open the fridge. So I thought why not throw all the leftover vegetables into my Instant Pot and see what happens?

It turned out I had a few items clamoring to be used. A bunch of semi-wilted kale, half an onion, zucchini, yellow squash and mushrooms. I added some garlic and tamari and about 1 cup of my favorite broth mix from My Plant-Based Family.

First I had to clean and chop everything. I sliced the onion and left them in pretty large pieces. The mushrooms were already sliced saving some time. I diced the zucchini and squash small so they would cook quickly. Also, after cleaning the kale I chopped it into a mix of ribbons and smaller pieces.

Then I began by setting the Instant Pot to sauté and adding the onions.

After they cooked for about 3 minutes it was time to add the mushrooms and garlic.

It took about 3 minutes of cooking and stirring for the mushrooms to cook.

Then it was time to add the zucchini and squash.

After stirring everything really well I added the kale, tamari and broth over the top. Closed and set the Instant Pot to 3 minutes. I did a quick release when it was finished.

Time to test the results! It’s delicious. Maybe next time I should add my cruciferous vegetables and get two checks with one recipe.