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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have essex greengrocer’s soup using 21 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Essex Greengrocer’s Soup:
Take 1 tbsp hazelnut oil
Take 2 onions, finely sliced
Make ready 1 shallot, finely sliced
Take 3 cloves garlic, finely sliced
Prepare 1 red chili, finely sliced (I leave the seeds in but that’s optional)
Prepare 1 red pepper, finely sliced
Make ready 140 g chestnut mushrooms, finely sliced
Make ready 2 tbsp tomato purée
Take 2 carrots, finely diced
Prepare 1 x 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
Get 2 l vegetable stock (I use “Marigold” powder unless fresh stock to hand)
Get 140 g French beans, in 2 cm slices
Take 2 bay leaves
Make ready 1 tsp dried oregano
Make ready 1 tsp dried thyme
Take 1 tsp smoked paprika
Make ready Handful pasta, in small pieces
Take 1/4 Savoy cabbage, torn into small pieces. I also use the core, finely diced
Get Salt
Take Ground black pepper
Make ready Parmesan cheese
Instructions to make Essex Greengrocer’s Soup:
Fry the onion and shallot on a medium-high heat in the oil in your stockpot or large saucepan for 4 minutes, stirring only to avoid sticking.
Add the garlic and chili and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the tomato purée, pepper and mushrooms and cook for a further 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Stir in the carrots and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the ingredients are nicely softened but not browned.
Add the chopped tomatoes, stock, bay leaves, oregano, thyme, smoked paprika and beans and stir thoroughly. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add the pasta and cook for another 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add the cabbage and cook, uncovered on a fast simmer, for a final 5 minutes.
Season to taste and serve piping hot, with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese.
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