Italian White Bean & Cherry Tomato

Name: Italian White Bean & Cherry Tomato
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon dried oregano; 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter; salt and freshly ground black pepper; a sprig of fresh basil; 1 courgette, finely chopped; 2 stock cubes; 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 10 cherry tomatoes, halved; 1 carrot, peeled and finely chopped; 1 x 400 g tin cannellini beans, drained

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Soups

By Fraser Reid

Published 2019

About

If you can find some fresh oregano or have some in the garden, then pick the leaves from a couple of sprigs instead of using dried oregano.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil or butter
1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
1

Europe
Italy
Mediterranean
Soup
Vegetarian
May
Spring
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the oil or butter in a pot over a medium-low heat. Fry the onion, carrot, courgette and garlic for 5–10 minutes until they are soft.

Pop in the cherry tomatoes along with the beans and oregano and mix everything together.

Add a litre of boiling water and the crumbled stock cubes, and then bring everything to the boil. Turn down the heat and simmer for 15 minutes.