May 29, 2016 / In food , soup / Tagged as: beans, basil, tomatoes

Tuscan White Bean Soup

Total Cook Time

40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 X 400g cannellini beans
  • 2 X 400g chopped tomatoes
  • 1-1.5 litres vegetable stock
  • 100ml olive oil
  • 3 carrots diced
  • 1 onion diced
  • 2 bunches kale (stalks removed), roughly chopped
  • 6 garlic cloves, crushed
  • large bunch of fresh basil, leaves picked, stalks finely chopped
  • optional: 1 sweet potato. Increases simmer time.
  • optional: spinach instead of kale.
  • optional: sourdough bread drizzled in olive oil and baked in oven for 10 minutes as an accompaniement.

Method

  1. In large saucepan sweat the onion and carrot in the olive oil
  2. Add garlic, tomatoes, potato and stock.
  3. Season and simmer for 20 minutes.
  4. Add kale and simmer for further 10 minutes.
  5. Serve sprinkled with parmesan.

The recipe makes quite a large quantity so good to either freeze or halve the amount produced.