Big, Hearty Pasta Soup
This Big, Hearty Pasta Soup is the perfect easy, flexible meal for families with a range of appetites and who want to eat at different times, but also delicious and no fuss for a family meal all dining together.
Tweaked from a recipe in BBC Good Food.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 35 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Soup
- Method: Hob
- Cuisine: Western
Ingredients
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 2 carrots, finely chopped
- 1 litre (1¾ pints) stock - chicken or vegetable
- 400g (1lb) can chopped tomatoes - I used one with added herbs
- 100g (4oz) frozen peas
- 100g (4oz) sugarsnaps, each cut into 3 pieces
- 1 x 198g (7oz) can sweetcorn, drained
- 1-2 x 250g (9oz) packets fresh filled tortellini (I used pesto)
- handful of basil leaves
- shaved Parmesan (or vegetarian alternative), to serve
- a few spoonfuls of pesto, to serve
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large pan, big enough to hold the soup. Fry the onion and carrots for 5 minutes or so, until they are starting to soften. Add the stock and the chopped tomatoes and allow to simmer for 5 minutes. Add the peas, sugarsnaps and sweetcorn and simmer for a further 5 minutes.
- At this stage, the soup can be left to cool ready to reheat and serve later.
- When you are ready to eat, bring the soup up to a steady boil and drop in the required amount of pasta. Simmer for 1-2 minutes or until the pasta is just cooked (less is better than more here as it will continue to cook in the soup).
- Serve drizzled with a little pesto (loosened with a touch of olive oil or reserved pasta water from the fridge if necessary), a sprinkling of basil and a generous shaving of Parmesan.
Keywords: soup, family, cosy, quick
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