Two for the price of one!

While I was on a cooking jag last week, I wanted to use up some leftover roast vegetables.  I was of a mind to make a vegetable mince mixture.  Well that's not what happened!  I ended up with a soup and a mince mixture.

I started out cutting all the leftover roast vegetables into small cubes.  The I added some celery, red capsicum, half an onion, some more carrots, and I think some sweet potato, but don't quote me on that.  I also added a tin of crushed tomatoes, and a tin of 4 bean mix, with some added tomato paste and water. I used dried mixed spice and parsley too. As you can imagine I ended up with a soup instead of a base for my mince!

As I had already defrosted the mince I browned it in another pan, and slowly added a number of spoonfuls of the soup mixture.  What I ended up with something that tasted brilliant and was healthy too.

I have since blitzed the soup and frozen it in snap lock bags to added to other dishes; and the mince? I've also portioned that out and frozen it too!  Although if I do too much more batch cooking, with on accident or purpose, I'll run out of room in my freezer!

On the left is the mince mixture and on the right is the soup.

... and yes that is a crochet tea cosy in the background!