Vegetable Noodle Soup

Here is a quick and delicious noodle soup which is perfectly delicious as a vegetarian dish. But if you happen to have cooked chicken handy...that is also a good addition.  It started with a vegetable soup recipe on the back of a 'fine egg noodle' package and evolved from there.  Since we like things zippy around here...I add Sambal Oelek (a chili paste) but a hot sauce of any kind would do the trick as well.

• 1 Tablespoon oil
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 2 carrots, sliced
• 2-3 cups chopped cabbage
• 8 cups chicken stock or vegetable broth
• 1 cup fine noodles, uncooked
• 1 cup green peas (small)
• 2 tablespoons Soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon Sambal Oelek (hot chili paste), optional
• 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
• 2 Tablespoons chopped parsley

1. Heat oil; cook onion, carrots and cabbage for 5-6 minutes.
2. Stir in chicken stock.  Bring to a boil; then simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Add noodles, peas, soy sauce and salt (along with hot sauce, if desired).  Simmer for about 5 minutes, or until noodles are tender.
4. Stir in the parsley and serve.

Serves six.