Farmhouse Soup
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 2 carrots
- 2 turnips
- 2 celery ribs
- 2 leeks
- 1⁄2 cabbage
- 60 g butter
- 300 g bacon joint
- 8 cups chicken stock
- 125 g French beans
- 2 potatoes
- 125 g peas
- 1⁄2 cup gruyere cheese
directions
- Dice the carrots, and turnips and white portion of the leeks.
- Melt butter in a large pan. Put in the carrots, turnips, leeks and soften on low heat for 10minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Wash the bacon in cold water and put in a saucepan of water, bring to the boil and simmer for 10minutes on low heat, drain and set aside to cool.
- Finely shred the cabbage, and chop the bacon into cubes.
- Add stock and bacon and cabbage to the vegetables, salt and pepper to taste. Bring to the boil, reduce heat. Cover and simmer gently for about 1hour.
- Cap and string the beans, wash and cut into pieces about 4cm long. Chop the celery and cube the potatoes.
- About 20minutes before end of cooking time, add cubed potatoes and peas to soup and cook further until tender.
- Serve with croûtons (optional) and grated Gruyère Cheese.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Roxxy
Australia