Root Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

• Tbs. olive or canola oil
  1 unit
• carrots

  trimmed, peeled, thinly sliced (1 1/2 cups)
  3 unit
• white or yellow onions

  peeled, chopped (2 cups)
  2 medium
• garlic

  minced
  3 cloves
• beets (about 1 1/4 lbs.) trimmed

  peeled, quartered and thinly sliced (4 cups)
  6 unit
• head cabbage

  cored, quartered, very thinly sliced (about 6 cups)
  1 small
• water
  10 cups
• Tbs. tomato paste
  3 unit
• Tbs. brown sugar
  3 unit
• Tbs. rice vinegar
  2 unit
• caraway seeds
  1 tsp
• salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  1 unit
• Low-fat yogurt or dairy-free soy sour cream for garnish (optional)
  1 unit