Garbanzo Bean Broth
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
1 hr 10 min.
Preparation
Ingredients
for
4
- Ingredients
- 3 Tbsps olive oil
- 1 stick Celery (diced)
- 1 onion (diced)
- 1 Zucchini (diced)
- 4 cloves garlic cloves (finely chopped)
- 3 carrots (diced)
- 3 tsps tomato puree
- 3 ½ cups vegetable stock (more if needed)
- 1 potato (diced)
- 14 ozs ripe Tomatoes (skined and chopped)
- 1 bay leaf
- 21 ozs canned chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
- salt
- peppers
- 3 ½ ozs diced vegetarian bacon
- To garnish
- bay leaves
- mint
Preparation steps
1.
Heat the oil in a large pan and cook the celery, onion, courgette, garlic and carrots for a few minutes until beginning to soften.
2.
Stir in the tomato puree, stock and potatoes.
3.
Add the tomatoes and bay leaf and simmer for 30 minutes.
4.
Add the chickpeas and simmer for a further 10 minutes. If it is too thick, add more stock. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
5.
Cook the bacon according to the instructions on the pack until it is cooked to your liking. Stir into the soup.
6.
Spoon into a serving bowl and garnish with mint leaves and a bay leaf.
