Minestrone

Description:
This mealsoup is quite filling - a perfect dish for a winter evening!

Ingredients:
200 gr cooked (achter)ham in thick slices (ca. 0,5 cm)
200 gr salami, in thick slices (ca. 0.5 cm)
1 winter carrot
1 courgette (zucchini)
1 leek
1-2 pcs garlic
2-3 tbsp olive oil
150 gr blocks of lean smoked bacon
1 can peeled tomatoes (400 gr)
1 lt meat or chicken stock, from a jar, tablettes or self-made
100 gr elbow macaroni
1 jar white or brown beans (400 gr)
2 tbsp pesto (from a jar)
salt and freshly-milled pepper
freshly shred Parmesan or old Gouda cheese


Directions:
1. Cut the ham and salami into blocks. Cut the peeled winter carrot and the washed courgette into blocks and the leek in rings. Mince the garlic.
2. Heat the oil in a soup pan and let the bacon cook shortly. Put in the carrot, the courgette, the leek and the garlic and let them cook shortly. Pour the tomatoes and the stock and bring to boil.
Put the macaroni into the pan and let it cook for about 5 minutes. Put in the beans and let it cook for another 5 minuets, until the macaroni is almost done. Mix the pesto into the soup and bring to taste with salt & pepper. Serve the cheese apart.


Transalted freely from the Keurslager website [http://www.keurslager.nl]