Winter Vegetable and Bean soup

Winter Vegetable and bean soup – family size portions
Note – this recipe contains meat!


6 portions:

Ingredients

100g rindless streaky bacon, cut into strips
Olive oil
2 onions, chopped
1 large clove of garlic
2 carrots, chopped
2 celery sticks, chopped
2 parsnips, chopped
1 large leek (white part), chopped
1 tin of tomato, with the tomatoes chopped

1 tin of haricot or mixed beans

1 litres of water or stock

How to make:

Blanch the bacon in simmering water for one minute, then rinse in cold water and dry well.
Put the olive oil in a saucepan, add the bacon and sauté until bacon is crisp and golden.
Add the onions, carrots and celery – cover and sweat for 5 minutes
Add the parsnip and leek   - cover and sweat for a further 5 minutes

Add the tomatoes, season and add the stock/water. Cook until veg are tender – roughly 30 minutes.

Liquidise, leaving the mixture still fairly coarse. and then add the beans. Heat through thoroughly.