The vegan diet style avoids the use of animal-oriented ingredients in the food including milk and its byproducts. This style is the stricter extension of the vegetarian diet, in which only meat and other animal-oriented ingredients are avoided. Vegan diet style is evolved from the word ‘veganism’. Veganism is not only related to the diet but it also restricts the use of animal-oriented things in a day-to-day life such as the use of fur, wool, honey, cosmetics, etc. Veganism roots from a cruelty-free approach towards animals, environment, and health consciousness.

Vegan diet followers have more restrictions compared to vegetarians, so here is our attempt to list out a few interesting soup recipes for vegan followers.

Cream of broccoli soup
This is a great recipe which requires basic ingredients like cashew, carrots, onion, celery, salt, pepper, garlic, and broccoli. All these ingredients have their own healthy characteristics which can boost and help vegan people to stay fit. A quick guide to the recipe is:

• Place cashews and water in a container. Soak for at least 1 hour.
• Add oil to a deep pan placed over medium to high heat. Once hot, add the chopped onion with a pinch of salt and sauté it, follow adding celery and carrots and sauté again. Add garlic and broccoli at the end and sauté for a minimum of five minutes.
• To prepare the soup, add water with your required consistency level (generally five cups) water, salt, and pepper powder. Stir well and bring mixture to a boil on low heat.
• Blend drained cashews with 1 cup water in the blender to get a very smooth and creamy texture. There should be no clumps. Set the cashew cream aside.
• Puree soup using a big blender or immersion blender in batches.
• Once the soup is pureed, mix and stir well in cashew cream. Garnish it using celery leaves.

Vegan curried pumpkin soup
This vegan curried pumpkin soup is a rich source of vitamins for vegans. It can be prepared in two ways either on the stovetop or using a slow cooker. Ingredients required for this healthy, delicious soup are butternut or Kent pumpkin, coconut milk, salt, curry powder, pepper, and coconut oil. Here is the quick recipe using the stovetop method.

• Heat the stovetop to medium level and pour some coconut oil in the deep pot or saucepan.
• Once heated, add the grated or chopped pumpkin and curry powder, pepper, and salt, mix well so that the curry powder mixture is evenly spread for the whole pumpkin quantity. Add coconut milk and water to the saucepan pumpkin and now adjust the heat level to low and wait till the pumpkin gets a soft and smooth texture.
• Blend the tender mixture using a stick blender to puree for required thickness.
• You can make it yummier by serving it hot with dried cilantro, pumpkin seeds, and red pepper flakes.

Try these simple vegan recipes with very common and easily available ingredients in your kitchen.