Sausage Minestrone

Bulk out this chunky vegetable soup with hearty sausage and cannellini beans, then serve with our tapenade ciabatta toasts

• Cooking Time Prep 20 mins
  Cook 40 mins
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Serves 6

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  393

• Protein

  14g

• Carbs

  32g

• Fat

  23g

• Saturates

  7g

• Fibre

  6g

• Sugar

  19g

• Salt

  2.4g

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
• 2 onions, finely chopped
• 6 carrots, roughly diced
• 4 celery sticks, roughly diced
• 4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
• 8 good-quality sausages, skins removed and sausagemeat broken into walnut-sized pieces
• 1 tbsp tomato purée
• 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes
• 1 chicken stock cube, crumbled
• 400g can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
• 1 tbsp golden caster sugar
• 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
• large pack parsley, roughly chopped
• Tapenade toast (see 'goes well with'), to serve

Directions

1. Put the oil, onions, carrots, celery and garlic in a large saucepan. Cook gently over a low heat for 15 mins or until soft. Meanwhile, tip the sausage pieces into a non-stick frying pan, turn up the heat and sizzle for a few mins to brown. Put to one side.
2. Stir tomato purée through the soft vegetables and cook for 1 min more. Pour in the tomatoes, 3½ cans of water and the stock cube. Stir and simmer for 10 mins. Add the sausage pieces and beans, and bubble down for 10 mins until sausages are cooked through. Season and stir in the sugar, vinegar and parsley. Spoon into bowls, adding a Tapenade toast to float, and a drizzle more olive oil, if you like.

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