This soup is perfect to boost your immune system and is also great if you’re already sick. It will make you feel better because is so delicious, warm and cozy. In addition, the ingredients are awesome and have amazing health properties.
If you don’t like spicy food, omit the cayenne powder, although is so helpful if you want to remove mucus or you can’t breath properly.
Anyways, the best way to be healthy is following a balanced diet all year long, although there are some magic foods that can help us, like this miraculous green soup!
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Immune Boosting Green Soup
- Prep: 15 mins
- Cook: 10 mins
- Total: 25 mins
- 6-8 1x
- Main dish
- Vegan, American
Servings 6-8 1x
This soup is perfect to boost your immune system and is also great if you’re already sick. The ingredients are awesome and have amazing health properties.
Ingredients
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1/2 chopped onion
- 1/2 chopped leek
- 1/2 cup frozen peas (60 g)
- 1-inch piece of fresh ginger (about 2 cm)
- 1/2 head of broccoli, chopped. Discard the stem (180 g)
- 3 handfuls of fresh kale or spinach (60 g)
- 1 14-ounce can coconut milk (400 ml)
- 3 cups water or vegetable broth (750 ml)
- 1/8 tsp cayenne powder
- 1 tsp sea salt
- Ground black pepper to taste
- 4 tbsp nutritional yeast
- The juice of half a lemon
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients in a pot, except the nutritional yeast and the lemon juice.
- Bring the soup to a boil and then cook over medium-high heat for 10 minutes.
- Pour the soup into a blender, add the yeast and the juice and blend until smooth.
- Serve the soup in a bowl and add your favorite ingredients on top. We added pumpkin seeds, chia seeds and almond flakes. We usually eat this soup with pasta, we cook it according to package directions, serve the pasta in a bowl and pour the soup into the same bowl.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/8 of the recipe
- Calories: 170
- Sugar: 4.1g
- Sodium: 272mg
- Fat: 12.5g
- Saturated Fat: 10.5g
- Carbohydrates: 10.9g
- Fiber: 4.2g
- Protein: 6.3g
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Hi Iosune! Thanks for this recipe. I really love it! I’ve been doing it for several years now. Just one little comment from me I keep wanting to share with you 🙂 You should use the stalks of the broccoli! They are as nutritious and tasty as the florets and it a great way to not waste a bit 🙂 In fact we eat them in slices as well when we steam broccoli but I’d understand you don’t like the roughness of it. On this note, I’m about to serve it for dinner. Thanks again for sharing this treasure.
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Hi Stella, thanks for your recommendation 🙂
So delicious and easy. I used green onion instead of leeks and canned peas since frozen were sold out. I would make this again and again. Thank you.
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Hi Justine! it is great to know you enjoyed the recipe!!! Thank you ! Have a nice day 🙂
Sooooooo good! 5 vegans in our family including a 7-year-old, 4-year-old, and 8-month-old and all of us were licking our bowls clean. We omitted the cayenne pepper but put a little more ginger in. We dropped off our extras to a friend who is currently recovering from the flu. This will be a regular recipe! Thank you!
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Hi Briona! I’m so happy to read that 🙂 Thank YOU for your comment!
So simple to make and I was blown away by how tasty it is! My immune system is very low just now and I made lots to have each day and enough to freeze too. Delicious and packed so full of goodness. Thank you for the recipe.
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Hi March! You’re so welcome 🙂 So glad you liked it!
Yes mate it taste great, fab comfort food, put a full Large lemon in instead.
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Hi Sarah! So glad you liked it 🙂
Delicious thick used 1 cup less water/stock. Tasty thank you
Hi Samantha! You’re so welcome 🙂 So glad you enjoyed it!
The recipe seemed too simple and I was doubtful whether it would really be tasty. But as soon as I tasted, I wanted to write “Excellent” on the printed recipe and make it a regular in my diet. It’s fantastic! Thank you!
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Hi Karen! Thank YOU so much 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
I had a tickle in my throat and stuffy nose a couple of days ago and was worried I might be getting sick. I started looking up green soup recipes when I got home from work and decided to make this one. I had everything on hand except the leek, so I just omitted that. I used three or four huge handfuls of spinach/kale mixture because I wanted to up the greens. I added an extra cup of veggie broth since I added so many greens. It was super easy and fast to make! It was also really delicious and made a ton! I’ve been eating it for lunch the last two days, too. I’m not sure if the soup was part of the reason, but I did not get sick after all. I’ll save this recipe and use it a lot in the future. Thanks!
Hi Susie! I’m so happy to hear that 🙂 So glad you liked it!
I stumbled on your beautiful recipe for boasting immune system. I like it and it makes sense but I would like to know the substitute for coconut milk as I am allergic to coconut and almond milk. Could I use rice milk instead. Or just water.
Hi Ifeoma! Any plant milk will do 🙂
Wow! Immune boosting green soup is a great idea when it is cold outside. Know from my own experience that the immune system is weakened in winter. Eating this soup you won’t catch a cold. At the same time, it is good for vegetarians, like me. Planning to cook this soup as soon as possible. Question: is it helpful for losing weight?
Hi Kseniya! It could be, as long as you’re following a healthy diet 🙂
Made this soup for especially for my wife, she loved it and so did I, Fantastic flavour. The second time I made it I added some celery that needed using up, this didn’t alter the flavour just added a little more texture. I found the nutritional yeast in Holland & Barrets only £2-99. I think this really helped the flavour
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Hi Paul! So glad your wife and you enjoyed it 🙂
Hey Iosune,
What does the yeast bring nutritionally, and what does it do to the taste?
Thank you,
Jenn
Hi Jenn! It gives the soup a cheesy flavor 🙂
High in B12 too as well as that nice cheesy flavour
Love love love this soup!! I make double quantity and also add cauliflower to it…best ever winter warmer, goes well with a nice Shiraz. 😉 xxxx
Hi Kerry! I’m so glad you liked it so much 🙂 Have a nice day!
Loaded with flavor! Delicious. I made this every week for 3 weeks running. I added one potato and jalapeño – masking an excellent soup even better!
Hi Gretchen! Thanks a lot 🙂 Sounds amazing!
This is hands down my favourite soup ever! I find it especially good when I’m feeling under the weather or a bit low, or when I feel my diet hasn’t been as good as it could have been. Also, it’s delicious!
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Hi Hannah! Thanks a lot, so glad you liked it! Have a nice day 😀
I love this soup! I made it twice, it’s great over pasta and rice.
Have you frozen it before? This is the only way I’ve used leeks and I want to use them all up, so I’ve thought about making 4 times as much and freezing the extras.
Thank you for this delicious recipe!
Hi Robin! So glad you liked it 🙂 No, I haven’t, but I think it should work. Have a nice day!
Saved to try when I’m home from my current trip. But I would never throw out the stalk of broccoli. I always use it for something: soup, stir fry, slaw, etc.
Hi Linda! Hope you like th soup 🙂
I made this recipe and loved it! It’s fresh and healthy and very different to any other soup recipe I would normally cook. Ingredients very easy to find and it’s so easy to make!
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Hi Paula! So glad you liked it 😀
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I tried this last night. Super yummy!
Many thanks for the recipe. I luv the fact that it is easy to make and ingredients are not so difficult to find :-).
Next, I am trying the vegan mayo..
Many thanks again!
Hi Miles! I’m so glad you liked it 😀 Hope you enjoy the mayo!
Made this last night and poured it over some rice, it was amazing and sooooooooooo easy to make! Will for sure be something I make again 🙂
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Hi Kas! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 😀 Have a nice day!
I am just eating a bowl of this soup as i’m writing this comment and it tastes amazing!
Usually i’m not a huge fan of peas at all – but in this combination they taste delicious!
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe and the video! I am a huge fan of your blog and have made quite a few recipes. All of them were just great in taste and really easy to cook. Thank you, thank you, thank you <3
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Hi Else! Thank you so much, you’re so kind 🙂 Have a beautiful week!
I have to admit, I was quite surprised at how good this tasted!
so simple and easy to make – yet so flavourful!!! My 2 year old and I couldn’t get enough. I put some udon noodles in for her thinking she would mostly eat the noodles but she proceeded to lift the bowl and drink the soup :)))
Definitely a keeper!
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Hi Orly! I’m so glad you liked it! Udon noodles are great and so delicious 🙂 Have a nice day!
I was skeptical when I read the ingredients but it actually tastes good. Made me feel better, Thanks you! 🙂
One more thing, I didn’t use Nutritional Yeast because I couldn’t find it. Why do you use it?
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Hi Omid! I’m so glad you liked it 🙂 I use nutritional yeast because I love how it tastes, but you can omit it if you want. Have a nice day!
Making my second batch tonight, for my husband who is fighting a cold. The first batch was divine over black rice with pumpkin seeds on top.
Hi Marissa! I’m so glad you liked it! Hope your husband is better 🙂
My wife has been craving something hot for some & comforting for some time now and so I decided to surprise her by making the soup.
It was easy and she loved it.
My wife is normally not a fan of smooth soups so I added cubes of cooked potatoes on the bottom and poured the soup over them. I highly recommend that addition if you do not mind the additional starch in your diet.
This will be a regular for our household.
Thanks,
Fred & Carrie
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Hi Fred! I love starches, I eat them all the time. Thanks a lot for the amazing idea!
i live alone this is to much soup for me why don’t you send me some dishes for one i will make this but cut down the amounts
Hi Olive! I’m so sorry, but we only post the recipes on the blog, we can’t send you the recipes for one, but as you said, you can cut down the amounts 🙂
This looks amazing. I really like you’re blog and videos. Please keep posting, your dog a great job.
Hi Esther! Thank you so much, you’re so kind 🙂
The soup looks very interesting, I have got all the ingredients, I shall make the soup and take a flask with me Saturday when I’m walking in beautiful Derbyshire, I am more than sure the soup will go down a treat.
Thank you so much for these fabulous recipes. .?
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Hi Cathy! Thanks a lot 😀 Hope you like it!
Thanks so much for the recipe. This is my favourite soup ever now. It is so easy and so delicious.
Hi Annelise! You’re so welcome 🙂 I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Have a nice day!