Andrea's Alphabet Soup

Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients:

2 tsp. olive oil
1 large onion, diced
1 garlic clove, diced
1 celery stalk, diced
1 cup carrots, diced
2 14-oz. cans tomatoes, peeled with liquid
1 pint tomato juice
kosher salt and pepper
3 oz. alphabet pasta
10 oz. box frozen petit peas, or 1 cup frozen edamame (out of the pod)

Instructions:

1. Chop onion, garlic and celery.
   
2. Heat oil in a large saucepan and cook onion, garlic and celery over a medium heat, stirring frequently, until soft and transparent but not browned.
   
3. Stir in tomatoes and their juice.
   
4. Chop carrots and add them, tomato juice and seasoning.
   
5. Bring to boil, lower heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
   
6. In a hand blender or food processor, blend a third of soup until smooth, then return it to pan.
   
7. Heat to boiling, then add pasta and cook over medium heat for another 10 minutes, until pasta is cooked.
   
8. During last three minutes of cooking, add frozen peas or edamame.