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Walton Road Allotments

Minestrone Soup

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Contributed by Stan Gorman
​This is a lovely way to use some of your newly harvested crop.  It tastes great too! 

Ingredients

  • 3 rashers of bacon, rinded & diced
  • 60ml. olive oil
  • 2 onions peeled and chopped
  • 2 carrots peeled and sliced
  • 1 small potato, peeled and diced
  • 3 celery sticks, trimmed & sliced
  • 2 leeks, washed, and sliced
  • 225g. tomatoes, skinned & chopped
  • 100g. French beans, topped and tailed
  • 100g. haricot beans, soaked overnight
  • 30ml. tomato purée

Method

​Fry the bacon in the oil until just turning colour. 
 
Add the onions, carrots, potato, celery, leeks, tomatoes and French beans, cover and cook gently, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. 
 
Add the drained haricot beans, tomato purée and herbs.  Stir in the stock, add seasoning and bring to the boil. 
 
Cover the pan and simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.  Add the pasta 10 minutes before the end of the cooking time.
 
Serve with crusty bread and grated Parmesan cheese.
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