• Italian vegetable soup with salsiccia

    Serves: 4
    Cooking Time: 30 mins

    Ingredients

    • 30ml (2 tbsp) extra virgin olive oil
    • 1 red onion, finely chopped
    • 2 fennel bulbs, roughly chopped
    • 2 celery sticks, roughly chopped
    • 2 garlic cloves, chopped
    • 30ml (2 tbsp) tomato paste
    • 100g green beans, horizontally sliced into bite-sized pieces
    • 1,5L beef stock, hot
    • 6 Italian salsiccia
    • salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
    • 60ml (¼ cup) fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped, to serve
    • crusty Italian bread, to serve

    Instructions

    1

    Heat the oil in a large frying pan and add the onion. Cover and let the onion sweat, about 5 minutes.

    2

    Mix in the fennel, celery and garlic with the onions, and cook for a minute.

    3

    Add the tomato paste, green beans and stock, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, about 15 minutes.

    4

    Heat the grill.

    5

    Place the sausages on a baking tray and grill, turning to grill all over and cook through. Remove, slice diagonally and add to the soup. Adjust seasoning.

    6

    Ladle the soup into four bowls, sprinkle with parsley and serve with crusty Italian bread.