Vegetable Beef Soup

Ingredients

• 7 ounces/200 grams grass-fed beef/bison (ground or cubed)
• 1.5 tablespoons celery flakes
• 4 cups beef broth (Imagine is Nan's favorite brand)
• 1 tablespoon onion flakes
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/2 tablespoon dried parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
• 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon of dried thyme
• 1/4 teaspoon of paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon of chili powder
• 1- 1.5 teaspoons of pink salt
• Pepper to taste
• 7 ounces of whole canned tomatoes
• 2 cups kale (cigar rolled and thin ribbon sliced)

Preparation

1. Cook beef in saute pan until done.  Ground beef/bison will take 8-10 minutes and cubed beef will take 15-20 minutes.  Save the juices & drippings and add to the broth.
2. Combine all ingredients (except tomatoes and kale) and simmer for 20-30 minutes.
3. The last 10 minutes add the tomatoes (or the other veggie you chose) and kale.

Optional Ideas

• If you use chicken or turkey as your protein, don't forget to switch the broth.
• This could be a vegetarian/vegan soup if you use the Simple Girl Dry Bouillon to make the broth and one of the legume choices from the vegetarian protein choices.
• You could also use this as a FREE broth if you eliminate the tomatoes and kale.  If you use the kale, you could have a bowl of this every day as an extra food!
• You could also use salsa as the tomato flavor and then add a different vegetable like zucchini or spinach.
• You can also make this more like a stew by adding in some xanthan gum on step 2.

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• Simple Girl Dry Bouillon
• Xanthan Gum