This delightful Chickpea Soup is filled to the brim with chickpeas, rainbow chard, and yellow summer squash. Garlic and parsley give it a fresh taste for a chickpea soup everyone can enjoy!
What Makes This Chickpea Soup So Good
This is a recipe for a vegan Chickpea Soup that I made in my Pressure Cooker. There is this soup I used to make with lots of fresh vegetables. I remember starting with leeks and some kind of greens.
I couldn't remember much of it, but I do remember that what made it really shine was the addition of fresh parsley and chopped garlic after the soup was cooked.
The other thing I remember about that Chickpea Soup was that it took a while to sauté the leeks and veggies for it. I loved that soup because it's chock full of fresh vegetables, but it took a while longer to make it that I didn't make it very often.
Well, okay. It takes maybe 10-15 minutes of cooking the leeks and then occasionally stirring the soup, so it's not like you're in the kitchen for hours. But somedays I need something that will cook itself.
Enter the pressure cooker. I don't know why it's taken me so long do re-make this in my Instant Pot, but I tried it last weekend. Actually, I do know why it's taken me so long.
I couldn't figure out how to get the vegetables and the chickpeas to cook together at the same time. And to be honest, I still haven't figured that out. So when making this soup, you can either prepare chickpeas in the Instant Pot as I did for the Chana Salad recipe, or you can do what I did, which is to use canned chickpeas.
How To Make Chickpea Soup
I'm providing both stovetop and pressure cooker directions for this soup, so you can enjoy it either way 🙂
Pressure Cooker Instructions
- Ensure your leeks and greens are well-washed and clean
- Add all soup ingredients into your pressure cooker. For the pressure cooker, you may choose to omit the oil, since we are not sautéing the leeks.
- Set the pressure cooker to cook for 3 minutes at high pressure, and when done release all pressure immediately.
- Add more stock if needed.
- Turn the Pressure cooker on Sauté and add the yellow squash, parsley, and garlic
- Allow it to cook for 2-3 minutes until the squash is done, sprinkle each bowl with parmesan cheese, and serve.
Stovetop Instructions
- Heat oil in a large pot, and when hot, add leeks and stir until the leeks are translucent about 10-12 minutes.
- Add all soup ingredients and cook until the vegetables are cooked through.
- Add more stock if needed.
- Once the leeks and greens are cooked, add the yellow squash, parsley, and garlic
- Allow it to cook for 2-3 minutes until the squash is done, sprinkle each bowl with parmesan cheese, and serve.
What Else Can you Include in this Soup?
So I see this as a soup that takes a little bit of whatever is in the fridge. The only "must-haves" are the leeks, some kind of greens, parsley and garlic. Other than that, put whatever you want and it should be fine.
- For the Rainbow chard, you could substitute spinach, kale, or collard greens.
- For the chickpeas, you could substitute really any kind of beans you'd like.
- For the yellow summer, pick some sort of vegetable with a little color against the green of the soup.
- You could add green beans, cauliflower, peppers etc. during the last sauté step and allow things to cook.
- Leave me and the other readers a comment telling us what you subbed with, so we can all experiment.
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Make sure you make this delicious Chickpea Soup the next time you're craving a warm, filling and comforting soup. You're sure to thank me, and make sure to share this with your friends on Facebook and Pinterest so they can enjoy it too!
Equipment
Ingredients
For the Soup
- 1 tablespoon (1 tablespoon) Vegetable Oil, if making stovetop
- 4 cups (356 g) Leeks, finely sliced
- 1 cup (101 g) Celery, sliced
- 14.5 ounce (411.07 g) Canned Chickpeas
- 8 cups (288 g) rainbow chard, chopped
- 1 tablespoon (1 tablespoon) Garlic, for the soup
- 1 teaspoon (1 teaspoon) Dried Oregano
- 1 teaspoon (1 teaspoon) Kosher Salt
- 2 teaspoons (2 teaspoons) Ground Black Pepper
- 2 cups (470 g) Vegetable Stock
For Finishing
- 2 cups (226 g) Yellow Summer Squash, cut in half and then sliced
- 1/4 cup (15 g) Chopped Parsley, chopped
- 1 tablespoon (1 tablespoon) Garlic, for finishing
- 4-6 tablespoon (4 tablespoon) shredded Parmesan cheese, (omit for vegan)
Instructions
Pressure Cooker Instructions
- Ensure your leeks and greens are well-washed and clean
- Add all soup ingredients in to your pressure cooker. For the pressure cooker, you may choose to omit the oil, since we are not sautéeing the leeks.
- Set the pressure cooker to cook for 3 minutes at high pressure, and when done release all pressure immediately.
- Add more stock if needed.
- Turn the Pressure cooker on Sauté and add the yellow squash, parsley and garlic
- Allow it to cook for 2-3 minutes until the squash is done, sprinkle each bowl with parmesan cheese, and serve.
Stovetop Instructions
- Heat oil in a large pot, and when hot, add leeks and stir until the leeks are translucent about 10-12 minutes.
- Add all soup ingredients and cook until the vegetables are cooked through.
- Add more stock if needed.
- Once the leeks and greens are cooked, add the yellow squash, parsley, and garlic
- Allow it to cook for 2-3 minutes until the squash is done, sprinkle each bowl with parmesan cheese, and serve.
- For the Rainbow chard, you could substitute spinach, kale, or collard greens.
- For the chickpeas, you could substitute really any kind of beans you'd like.
- For the yellow summer, pick some sort of vegetable with a little color against the green of the soup.
- You could add green beans, cauliflower, peppers etc. during the last sauté step and allow things to cook.
- Leave me and the other readers a comment telling us what you subbed with, so we can all experiment.
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Linda
This was truly delicious, I'm a bit surprised there are no comments here. Next time I will half the pepper. Otherwise, I used summer squash, kale instead of spinach, and onion instead of leeks all out of my garden. what an absolutely wonderful way to use up some of that garden produce!
I can see if you added a can of tomatoes or fresh tomatoes, and some browned hamburger or leftover roast that you could have an amazing vegetable beef soup.
Anyways, thank you for giving me a wonderful recipe when I was searching ways to use up my summer squash! I'll definitely make this recipe again.