The Basic Best Soup

I love preserving the food from my garden and making up new recipes. Even after all these years I have learned a neat new trick. I made a soup with overaged green beans, cooked sorrel, and some chicken stock. It needed some body. In the blender, I puréed the drained and rinsed contents of a can of chickpeas with olive oil and some of the soup. I then combined this with the remaining soup, and it worked perfectly. I am going to try this thickening in other recipes. It is easy and has the ben