Cabbage Soup with Bacon
Ingredients
- 1oz butter
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 4oz rindless smoked bacon, diced
- 1lb cabbage, cored and shredded
- 1 medium potato peeled and diced
- 2 pints chicken or vegetable stock
- 3 tablespoons single cream
- Salt and pepper to taste
If you're on the cabbage soup diet leave out the bacon and cream, although only if you really, really have to, because they transform this soup from the bland to the fabulous.
Instructions
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Melt the butter and soften the onion with the bacon, until the onion is translucent and the bacon starting to brown
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Stir in the cabbage and potato, and cook for 2-3 minutes.
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Add the stock and season. Cover and cook gently for 30 minutes, until the cabbage is tender.
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Liquidize the soup and return to the saucepan, reheat and serve.
Serve with a swirl of the cream and some crunchy croutons.
Further Reading
 Pig: Cooking with a Passion for Pork Johnnie Mountain |  River Cottage Veg Every Day! Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall |  Preserves: River Cottage Handbook No.2 Pam Corbin |  Flour Water Salt Yeast Ken Forkish |  Cakes: River Cottage Handbook No.8 Pam Corbin |
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liz
Saturday 8 October, 2011 at 10:23am
This soup is delicious!!! My son doesnt like cabbage and he said it was the nicest soup he's ever tasted. I have to make batches of it now so that he can take some backe with him when he visits.