Add the vegetable chunks and cook for 5 minutes more, stirring occasionally. Stir in the garlic and cook for a few seconds more. Crumble over ... starchy root vegetables you like for this simple ...

and crumble over the stock cube. Bring the soup to a simmer, then add any vegetables you like. Add root vegetables first and cook for 10 minutes, before adding the raw green vegetables such as ...

which you can learn to do in this week's recipe for the staple dish in our second installment in our series on root vegetables. “Su-renkon,” literally “vinegar lotus root,” is a convenient ...