Minstrone Soup

Minstrone soup

Ingredients:
1 Onion
I-2 stalks celery
1-2 slices of turnip
1 Large carrot
1 potato
1 leek
1heaped tablespoon tomato puree
Vegetable stock cube or powder to make up 1 pint of stock
Salt and black pepper
1 tsp basil
1 tsp oregano
100g spaghetti broken into pieces.

Method
Peel and chop all the vegetables. Heat 1 tbsp of oil or butter and toss the vegetables in the oil, put on a lid and sweat for 4-5 mins without removing the lid. Toss occasionally. Add the herbs, salt and pepper and tomato puree, stir well.

Add the stock to the pan and place a lid on top and simmer for at least twenty mins preferably longer, stir in the broken spagetti for the last ten minutes, taste and check seasoning. Serve with crusty bread.