Coloured vegetable soup

AUTHOR
Brooke Calhoun
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
120 mins
TOTAL TIME
120 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 collar Soup Greens
  • 1 Onion
  • 500 g streaky smoked bacon
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • 4-6 Juniper berries
  • 6-8 Peppercorns
  • 500 g broad beans
  • 250 g Cutting beans
  • 250 g Carrots
  • 1 collar Parsley

Directions

  1. 1

    Clean, wash and coarsely chop the soup greens. Peel and halve the onion. Boil up bacon, soup vegetables, onion halves and 1 1/2 litre water in a pot. Add bay leaf, juniper berries and peppercorns and let everything boil gently for about one hour.

  2. 2

    Remove the broad beans from their shells and wash them. Clean, wash and cut the beans into two centimetre pieces. Peel, wash and halve carrots and cut into thick slices. Remove the bacon.

  3. 3

    Pour the stock through a sieve, pour it back into the pot and cook the beans and carrots for 15 to 20 minutes. Cut bacon into bite-sized cubes. Wash and finely chop parsley. Add bacon and parsley to the soup and serve.

Categories & Tags

AppetizerMain dishexoticSoups