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Winter chunky vegetable soup

A substantial minestrone-type soup with homemade garlic bread that’s great for using up leftovers.

A substantial minestrone-type soup with homemade garlic bread that’s great for using up leftovers.

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Cooking Time

Cook: 40 Mins

Cooking Time

Serves: 4

Cooking Time

Price: 95p per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 459g serving contains

Energy
1868kj
446kcal
22%
Fat
17g
Med
24%
Saturates
4.2g
Med
21%
Sugars
11g
Med
12%
Salt
2.9g
High
49%
1
of your 5-a-day
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
407kj/97kcal

Ingredients

3 tbsp olive oil

1 large onion, sliced

3 celery sticks, sliced

½ x 180g pack kale, spinach or pak choi, roughly shredded

4 garlic cloves, crushed

8 semi-dried tomatoes

1 tbsp tomato purée

750ml hot vegetable stock

290g can borlotti beans, drained

75g frozen broad beans

75g frozen peas

A few sprigs of fresh thyme

1 white baguette, sliced

2 tbsp Parmesan, grated or shaved

Method

1
Heat half the oil in a large pan and slowly cook the onion and celery until soft.
2
Add the shredded greens and half the garlic. Cook for another 2 minutes.
3
Stir in the tomatoes and purée. Add the stock, beans, peas and thyme. Simmer for 30 minutes.
4
Mix the remaining oil and garlic and spread on the bread. Toast under the grill.
5
Season the soup and serve with Parmesan and the garlic baguette.