Vegetable Beef Soup

total time:: 45 min (to prepare plus cooking time)

Serves 8.

Karen Seavers

Vegetable soup with beef roast.

ingredients

3-4 lb. beef chuck roast
3-5 potatoes peeled and cubed
3-5 carrots peeled and sliced into coins
3-5 stalks celery sliced into coins
1 small onion chopped
1-2 tsp minced garlic
1/2 head cabbage coarsely chopped
1 can (64 oz) tomato juice
salt
1/2 lb spaghetti broken into small pieces and cooked as package directs. (optional)

directions

Place beef roast in pressure cooker. Add 1 tsp salt. Cover with enough water to fill cooker 2/3 full. Pressure cook as per cooker directions. Remove roast and add prepared vegetables to broth. Add 1 tsp salt. Pressure cook as per cooker directions. While vegetables are cooking, shred roast in bite size pieces, discarding fat. Place roast in large saucepan. Add vegetables and broth plus 2/3 to 3/4 can of tomato juice. Simmer on stove top 20 minutes to blend flavors. May add cooked spaghetti just before serving if desired.

Source: Karen Seavers