Essex Greengrocer’s Soup
Essex Greengrocer’s Soup

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Find Greengrocers in Essex at Locallife.co.uk. Essex Greengrocers. covering Southend, Havering, Colchester, Harlow and Epping, Basildon, Chelmsford. Greengrocer's Soup with Onion, Peppers, Rapini, and Potatoes.

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

Local Food Essex - helping you find local Essex cheeses that turn your cheeseboard into a gastro-journey of regional Essex cheeses. Find Greengrocers in Essex at Locallife.co.uk. The soup is also a great transitional recipe between winter and spring. The potatoes and the splash of plant milk keep it creamy and give it some heft, but it's also light and fresh, a great way to welcome asparagus when the season hits, or to put your chard and spinach to good use.

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.

I like to top the soup with rice, legumes, and other easy. I have loved radishes since reading about them in Beatrix Potter - but never really ate many growing up. I did try to grow them recently - but was dismally unsuccessful (although the squirrel dug them all up, so it is possible he really liked them; I never heard back). Now that new spring radishes are appearing in greengrocers all over the place, I am using them in all sorts of (mostly. It might be hailing and rainy outside, but my poor cucumber plants are still limping on in the garden. and although I didn't think you could buy broad beans now, I found these at my greengrocers, and they were grown in Kent which I thought was rather brilliant.

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