Big Soup Recipe

Big soup

Name: Big soup
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 200g bacon lardons; 2 leeks chopped; 2 cloves garlic crushed; 2 carrots diced; 2 sticks celery diced; 4 tbsp red lentils; 4 tbsp pearl barley; 1 litre chicken stock; 1 tbsp tomato purée; 2tbsp flat-leaf parsley finely chopped to make 2 tbsp

Janine Ratcliffe

Published: October 14, 2019 at 4:18 PM

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Serves 6

Easy

Total time: 35 mins

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Make this all-in-one soup for a midweek winter warmer. It's packed full of nutritious veg, lentils, pearl barley and salty lardons

Low calorie

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Try our big soup then check out our winter pistou soup, spicy butter bean soup, minestrone soup, tomato soup and more warming soup recipes. Why not bake a batch of homemade bread rolls to serve on the side, too?

Ingredients

Nutrition

200g bacon lardons
2 leeks

chopped
2 cloves garlic

crushed
2 carrots

diced
2 sticks celery

diced
4 tbsp red lentils
4 tbsp pearl barley
1 litre chicken stock
1 tbsp tomato purée
2tbsp flat-leaf parsley

finely chopped to make 2 tbsp

Nutrition: per serving

kcal209

low
fat9.1g
saturates3.2g
carbs17.1g
sugars3.2g
fibre3.4g
protein13g
salt1.8g

Method

step 1

Heat a large pan and add the bacon lardons. Cook until golden and the fat has rendered down, then add the leeks, garlic, carrots, celery and 1 tsp salt, and cook over a low heat for 10 minutes until the veg has softened. Stir in the lentils, pearl barley, stock and tomato purée, then simmer for 15 minutes or until the barley and lentils are tender. Stir in the parsley and simmer for another couple of minutes before serving.

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