Slightly spicy minestrone soup with parsley and kale

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Prue: My All-time Favourite Recipes

By Prue Leith

Published 2018

  • About

Traditional Italian minestrone requires everything to be chopped very finely to make a soup that’s eaten as a starter. I’ve just adapted it to make a hearty, chunky main course.

Ingredients

  • 100 g dried haricot beans, soaked overnight to soften
  • 1 bouquet garni (see Tip)
  • 3

Method

  1. Rinse the soaked beans and put into a large, heavy-based saucepan. Add the bouquet garni. Cover with roughly twice the volume of water to beans and bring to the boil. Turn down and simmer, uncovered, until the beans are soft and tender – about 1½–2 hours. Drain and set aside the softened beans, discarding the aromatics.

  2. Rinse out the pan, add the ol