One-pot Cabbage Soup

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

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.
6. Reduce heat and simmer a further 10 minutes. Lift out bacon, cut into small pieces and return to pot.
7. Taste for salt and season with pepper and nutmeg.
8. Serve with good sourdough bread.