Recipe of Award-winning Essex Greengrocer’s Soup

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, essex greengrocer’s soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Essex Greengrocer’s Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Essex Greengrocer’s Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook essex greengrocer’s soup using 21 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Essex Greengrocer’s Soup:

1. Get 1 tbsp hazelnut oil
2. Prepare 2 onions, finely sliced
3. Take 1 shallot, finely sliced
4. Prepare 3 cloves garlic, finely sliced
5. Get 1 red chili, finely sliced (I leave the seeds in but that’s optional)
6. Prepare 1 red pepper, finely sliced
7. Make ready 140 g chestnut mushrooms, finely sliced
8. Get 2 tbsp tomato purée
9. Make ready 2 carrots, finely diced
10. Get 1 x 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
11. Take 2 l vegetable stock (I use “Marigold” powder unless fresh stock to hand)
12. Make ready 140 g French beans, in 2 cm slices
13. Take 2 bay leaves
14. Make ready 1 tsp dried oregano
15. Get 1 tsp dried thyme
16. Make ready 1 tsp smoked paprika
17. Make ready Handful pasta, in small pieces
18. Take 1/4 Savoy cabbage, torn into small pieces. I also use the core, finely diced
19. Prepare Salt
20. Make ready Ground black pepper
21. Take Parmesan cheese

Steps to make Essex Greengrocer’s Soup:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Stir in the carrots and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the ingredients are nicely softened but not browned.
4. 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.
5. Add the pasta and cook for another 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
6. Add the cabbage and cook, uncovered on a fast simmer, for a final 5 minutes.
7. Season to taste and serve piping hot, with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese.

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