Vegetable soup with bacon & pasta

[maddy]

Name of Recipe: Vegetable soup with bacon & pasta
Number of People: 4
Ingredients:

1 onion
1 clove garlic
20g olive oil
4tsp vegetta gourmet vegetable stock (I had run out of TM stock)...or 2 Tbsb. TM veg. stock Concentrate
4 cups boiling water
500g chopped vegetables (I use a mix of carrot, celery, mushroom, zucchini)...but use what you like.
60-100g  chopped bacon
1 small tub leggos pizza sauce (garlic, onion, herb - 140g)
80g small spiral pasta
cracked black pepper

Preparation:

Place the chopped veggies into jug, and chop 5 secs - speed 4. Set aside
* I like to chop the carrots a little first, before adding the rest of the veg.*

Place in quartered onion and garlic clove, chop 5 secs - speed 5.

Add oil and bacon to onion mix, and cook 5 mins - 100c - reverse speed 1, MC off.

Mix vegetta stock with boiling water, then add into jug. Add the veggies, pizza sauce, black pepper, and pasta.
Cook 20 mins - 100c - reverse speed 1.

Once cooked, mix in some freshly grated parmesan, and serve with some chopped herbs on top if you wish

Photos:






Made a crusty cob loaf to go with.....great for dunking in soup


members' comments Everyone loves this recipe.

Shazzy - I added risoni instead of pasta spirals & tomato paste and some mixed herbs instead of the pizza paste.

ahoney - Made this with 220g tomato paste, 1 tsp mixed Italian herbs, corn and 2 veg stock cubes (massel).

JD - I added some of Tenina's flavour boosters - caramelized garlic paste and a cube of umami paste.

Dizzygirl - Added some curry powder for kick. 

Kazza14 -  I too added my own pizza sauce (Thermomix of course) and I also added an extra rasher of bacon which I had chopped and quickly crisped up in the microwave. I also added Risoni instead of pasta shells and added a leek with the veggies.

foodgroupie - Followed the recipe to a T except for adding another 60 grams of bacon.

knittercook - I used carrots, cabbage and frozen corn as that is all I had and macaroni pasta, 1 tbs of vegetable stock, 2 rashers of bacon.

MangoJam -  left out the pasta.  We just love it with parmesan cheese liberally applied!!

 

[Thermomixer]

Good work Maddy, something to make for the stepson who is ill and great pic.  Ta 

[achookwoman]

Maddy,  this sounds really nice.   It has turned cold so will give it a go.

[cookie1]

Maddy, lovely picture and great looking soup. Thanks.

[judydawn]

Yes, the weather is becoming cooler and soon it will be soup time again - yay!  This summer didn't seem as long as previous ones but I'm sure it hasn't completely finished yet.  Thanks for the delicious looking soup maddy - things always on hand so easy to whip up.  I made MJ's pasta sauce today and it fits the description of the leggos one in your recipe so I will be using that for this soup.

[obbie]

i was looking for inspiration, and i found it here.
have just made this soup for dinner tonight.


thanks,
Robyn

[judydawn]

Made this late last night for lunch today maddy - it was a lovely thick, full flavoured soup.  Thank you for posting it.

[maddy]

Glad you enjoyed it.
I love a filling soup.....although hubby would eat 2 big bowls, eat 1/2 the cob loaf, and then ask "what's next?"  

[judydawn]

Mine is the complete opposite.  We had a bowl for lunch with a freshly baked roll and when teatime came around DH didn't want much to eat at all.  I served him up a small piece of leftover spinach & rice pie from the freezer with salad and corn on the cob but he left half of it. 

[achookwoman]

JD,  I had a bowl of this tasty and filling soup for lunch today and it filled me up,  so can understand your DH not wanting much for tea.

[judydawn]

It is a good one isn't it Chookie, seems to get better each day too. 

[I Love Bimby!]

This looks good Maddy. And your pictures are just as inspiring as JulieO's 

[cathy79]

Ohhh yummy.  Just finished making this soup, and it is so thick and rich.  Delicious.  And worked out beautifully as I had just the right amount of "sad" veggies that needing using, a little bit of tomato paste left from something else, and finished off the last of my vegie stock concentrate.  So cleaned out the fridge beautifully too.

Thanks Maddy!

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

We love this soup too Maddy - delicious!!! Thank you for the recipe. 

[meganjane]

Thanks Maddy, I'll make that today. I made some pizza sauce yesterday for Pizza Scrolls, so will definitely make the soup for lunch today.