One-Pot Cabbage Soup

Name: One-Pot Cabbage Soup
Ingredients: 500 g rindless smoked streaky bacon; 12 small potatoes, halved; 12 baby carrots, halved; 6 turnips, halved (golf-ball sized); 6 pickling onions, quartered; 500 g green beans, cut into 3cm pieces; 250 g green peas, shelled; 1/2 savoy cabbage or 1/2 other green loose-leafed cabbage, sliced; to taste black pepper, freshly ground; to taste nutmeg, freshly grated

10 ingredients

7 steps

Ingredients

500 g rindless smoked streaky bacon
12 small potatoes, halved
12 baby carrots, halved
6 turnips, halved (golf-ball sized)
6 pickling onions, quartered
500 g green beans, cut into 3cm pieces
250 g green peas, shelled
1/2 savoy cabbage or 1/2 other green loose-leafed cabbage, sliced
to taste black pepper, freshly ground
to taste nutmeg, freshly grated

Directions

1

Put bacon, potato, carrot, turnip and onion in a heavy saucepan.
2

Cover with cold water, bring to a boil and simmer very gently for 45 minutes.
3

Raise heat to a bubbling boil and add beans.
4

After 5 minutes add peas.
5

After another 5 minutes add cabbage. Reduce heat and simmer a further 10 minutes.
6

Lift out bacon, cut into small pieces and return to pot. Taste for salt and season with pepper and nutmeg.
7

Serve with good sourdough bread.