One-pot Cabbage Soup
(Source: Stephanie Alexander's "The Cooks Companion", Penguin books Australia,
1996)
(Supplied by Shay Telfer (shay@arts.uwa.edu.au))
(Serves: 6 people)
Ingredients
- 500g rindless smoked streaky bacon
- 12 small potatoes, halved
- 12 baby carrots, halved
- 6 golf ball sized turnips, halved
- 6 pickling onions, quartered
- 500g green beans, cut into 3cm pieces
- 250g shelled green peas
- 1/2 Savoy or other green loose-leafed cabbage, sliced
- freshly ground black pepper
- freshly grated nutmeg
Directions
- Put bacon, potato, carrot, turnip and onion in a heavy saucepan.
- Cover with cold water, bring to a boil and simmer very gently for 45 minutes.
- Raise heat to a bubbling boil and add beans.
- After 5 minutes add peas.
- After another 5 minutes add cabbage.
- Reduce heat and simmer a further 10 minutes. Lift out bacon, cut into
small pieces and return to pot.
- Taste for salt and season with pepper and nutmeg.
- Serve with good sourdough bread.
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