Anna Valentine's winter warmers | RNZ Recipes

Ingredients

• 2 whole onions, skin on and roughly chopped
• 1 whole leek, roughly chopped
• 1 whole bulb garlic, halved widthways
• 2 sticks of celery (plus the end and scrappy tops), roughly chopped
• 2 whole carrots, roughly chopped
• 1-2 beetroot, roughly chopped (optional)
• 2-3 sweetcorn cobs (optional)
• 2-3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 400g tomatoes, halved, or tin tomatoes/passata
• 8cm piece fresh ginger, sliced
• 8cm piece fresh turmeric, sliced or 2 tablespoon turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
• 1 stick lemongrass, bruised
• 1 large stick fresh rosemary
• 4 bay leaves
• 8 (35g) dried or fresh mushrooms, shiitake, oyster, porcini or foraged
• 10g medicinal mushrooms, reishi, turkey tail, chaga or cordyceps (optional)
• 1-5 pieces dried seaweed, kombu, wakame or kelp
• 4 litres water