Vegetable Soup, Southwestern Style!

Southwestern Vegetable.

Mmm-mmm. Here is another good soup to add to my favorites list. I tried this one at my local Chili’s restaurant one chilly and busy Friday night.

What stood out for me the most was the flavor of those diced green chilies. That helps make this recipe go a long way to separate this soup from the garden variety vegetable soup, which yes, also has those delicious kidney and green beans.

I think the fact that the Southwestern Vegetable soup recipes also include Spanish onion, corn, and a dash of both chili and garlic powders also helps distinguish it a bit more from other vegetable soups.

No more living in the shadows of Garden Vegetable, Southwestern! Be out and proud in your own right. With this soup you also get a nice garnish of thin strips of corn tortilla and cheese, which I loved.

As with a lot of popular soups like this one, you can add or subtract a few things. For instance, add meat, or don’t add meat. You can even try out different peppers if you like. The Food Network has recipes available for this soup. Or you can also try the internet.

If you’re kitchen challenged like this soup blogger, Campbell’s, and Progresso are two of the many soup-makers out there you can try out from your local grocer’s shelves.

A little trivia for you too: My internet searching on this soup turned up an interesting fact which I have not yet confirmed. It’s quite possible that Campbell’s Soup came up with the recipe for Southwestern Vegetable back in 1966.

As to the picture. Not the neatest ladeling into a bowl you ever saw, huh? Yeah, well, on his way to serve it to me, the Chili's bartender whipped around to avoid a collision with another bartender and so it sloshed around the bowl a bit. Hey, it could've been worse. I could've ended up wearing it.

Enjoy Soupers!