One-pot Cabbage Soup

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 500 g rindless smoked streaky bacon
• 12 small potatoes, halved
• 12 baby carrots, halved
• 6 turnips, halved (golf-ball sized)
• 6 pickling onions, quartered
• 500 g green beans, cut into 3cm pieces
• 250 g green peas, shelled
• 1/2 savoy cabbage or 1/2 other green loose-leafed cabbage, sliced
• to taste black pepper, freshly ground
• to taste nutmeg, freshly grated

Recipe

• 1 put bacon, potato, carrot, turnip and onion in a heavy saucepan.
• 2 cover with cold water, bring to a boil and simmer very gently for 45 minutes.
• 3 raise heat to a bubbling boil and add beans.
• 4 after 5 minutes add peas.
• 5 after another 5 minutes add cabbage. reduce heat and simmer a further 10 minutes.
• 6 lift out bacon, cut into small pieces and return to pot. taste for salt and season with pepper and nutmeg.
• 7 serve with good sourdough bread.