Fruits And Veggies Monday - Vegetables Soup With Dumplings

It is #FruitsAndVeggiesMonday, hosted by the wonderful @lenasveganliving!

This is the finished bowl of veggies soup with dumplings from the recipe I found on Tasty Vegetarian video. I thought I should try something new to do, especially when we have three consecutive days of rain last week.

As for vegetables, the recipe called for onion, garlic, mushroom, carrot, and celery. So I got all my vegetables cut and prepared for the onslaught of cooking :-)

Begin with saute' chopped onion, garlic, and sliced mushroom! I happened to have 4 shiitake mushroom caps, so I used them instead of common mushrooms in the recipe. Shiitake mushroom tastes like meat but so much better health-wise.

Season this with salt, pepper, oregano and thyme!

The recipe called for 2 bay leaves, tomato paste and vegetable broth, but I didn't have any on hands! I used plain water instead. I figure the vegetables will cook down with water anyway, thus, I didn't fuss too much about it. It turned out wonderful as I expected it would.

The dumplings were made with all purpose flour, baking powder, warm water and olive oil. I, being a weird one, added some chopped cilantro into the dough, and just dropped them in the soup by spoonful.

The result, as you can see, is delicious, tasty, and gives me a different taste for the week.

Eat well and live healthy!

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