This easy recipe has it all! It's an easy meal! It's a healthy soup! It's a kid-friendly soup! The best part is this hot soup brings back nostalgia from your childhood! This delicious alphabet soup is a personal favorite for a rainy day or a healthy lunch!
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Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Comfort food for kids of all ages on a cold winter day!
- Pack this pasta soup in a thermos for school lunch!
- A simple soup with fantastic tomato flavor and edible alphabet pasta!
- You'll know how to make alphabet soup instead of using canned soup!
Ingredient Notes and Substitutions
- Frozen Vegetables - I like the corn, carrot, and green bean blend, but you can use anyone you prefer!
- Diced Tomatoes - for a spicy kick of extra flavor, use the diced tomatoes with diced green chilies.
- ABC pasta - You can find alphabet pasta in the pasta section of most grocery stores. If you're having a hard time locating it, I've found it in the Mexican food section if it's not anywhere else. Or you can order some alphabet noodles through Amazon with the link below. Tiny star pasta could be used in place of alphabet pasta as well.
- Vegetable Broth - You can buy cartons of already prepared vegetable broth or make your own from a base (not bouillon cubes). A base is a wet broth concentrate rather than dried-out granules. Better than Bouillon makes an excellent base. Do not substitute chicken broth or chicken stock for this recipe.
Couple Things You'll Need
Step-by-Step Recipe Instructions
- Pour vegetable broth into a soup pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
- Add the peeled and diced potatoes.
- Simmer until the potatoes are all the way cooked through.
- IMPORTANT for BEST RESULTS - if you add the tomatoes before the potatoes are cooked completely, the acid in the tomatoes will stop the potatoes from cooking and turn them hard!
- Add the frozen veggies and cook until thawed and heated through.
- Add the diced tomatoes and alphabet pasta.
- Add the onion and garlic powder.
- Once the pasta is cooked though, remove from the heat, cool slightly, and serve!
- Store leftover soup in an airtight container in the fridge!
Recipe FAQs
You must wait to add the tomatoes until after the potatoes are completely cooked! The high acidity level in tomatoes stops potatoes from cooking.
No, you can substitute any small pasta you would like!
Grilled cheese sandwiches are great with this childhood soup; however, let's go for some adult grilled cheese like Jalapeno Popper Grilled Cheese or Grilled Smoked Gouda with Pimento Sandwiches. And did you know you can make Grilled Cheese in an Air Fryer?
Yes, if you have leftovers or just want to make it the day before, it keeps just fine and reheats well the next day.
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Easy Alphabet Soup
Ingredients
- 8 Cups Vegetable Broth read notes about broth in post
- 1 teaspoon Onion Powder
- 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 12 oz. package Frozen Mixed Vegetables (carrots, corn, green beans, peas)
- 1 Cup small cubed Potatoes
- ¼ Cup Alphabet Pasta (trust me this will be enough)
- 14.5 oz Petite Diced Tomatoes 14.5 oz can
Instructions
- Pour vegetable broth into a soup pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
- Add the peeled and diced potatoes.
- Simmer until the potatoes are all the way cooked through.
- IMPORTANT for BEST RESULTSÂ - if you add the tomatoes before the potatoes are cooked completely, the acid in the tomatoes will stop the potatoes from cooking and turn them hard!
- Add the frozen veggies and cook until thawed and heated through.
- Add the diced tomatoes and alphabet pasta.
- Add the onion and garlic powder.
- Once the pasta is cooked though, remove from the heat, cool slightly, and serve!
- Store leftover soup in an airtight container in the fridge!
Notes
- DO NOT add the diced tomatoes before the potatoes are completely cooked! The acidity level of tomatoes will prevent potatoes from softening.Â
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KiMee Nicole Price
So good!