Garden of Eden soup | Reader's Digest Australia

Ingredients

• 300 ml boiling water
• 1 vegetable stock cube, crumbled, or 2 teaspoons vegetable stock powder
• 1 litre tomato juice
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 4 spring onions, finely chopped
• 1 large potato, scrubbed and diced
• 1 large carrot, diced
• 1⅔ cups (100 g) frozen broccoli florets
• 1⅓ cups (100 g) finely shredded or coarsely chopped white cabbage
• ½ cup (60 g) frozen sliced green beans
• ⅓ cup (50 g) frozen peas
• ⅓ cup (50 g) frozen broad beans
• 8 large sprigs of fresh basil
• salt
• pepper