african vegetable soup

Ingredients For african vegetable soup

• 1 Tbsp

  vegetable oil
• 2 md

  onion, diced med. size
• 1 to 2

  stalks celery, diced
• 1 md

  sweet potato, cubed 1/2 in size
• 1/4 c

  chopped fresh parsley
• 4 c

  water
• 1

  28 oz. can stewed tomatoes
• 1 tsp

  salt or to taste
• pepper, fresh ground to taste
• 1 tsp

  turmeric, ground
• 1/2 tsp

  dried thyme leaves
• 1/2 tsp

  cumin
• 1/8 tsp

  cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp

  red pepper
• 1

  bay leaf
• 1 sm

  zucchini, sliced 1/4 in.
• 1

  15 oz. can garbanzos beans, rinsed and drained
• 2 oz

  uncooked macaroni, elbow or ditalini