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Chicken, potato and cannellini bean soup

11/9/2017

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I could eat this Italian-inspired soup again and again. Nourishing, delicious, full of lovely seasonal veg, and comforting in cold weather. The chicken can be left out and more cannellini beans added to make a hearty vegetarian soup.
 
Serves 2, prep time 60 mins (including making sourdough croutons if desired)
Olive oil

5-6 large potatoes (organic if possible – potatoes can be heavily sprayed with pesticides)
Sea salt and ground black pepper
½ large white onion
1 large leek
Good handful cavalo nero
Few cloves of garlic, roughly chopped

Fresh thyme sprigs
1 tin cannellini beans (use 2 tins if making vegetarian version)
A few good handfuls of shredded or sliced roasted free range chicken
Optional extra: Pre-made sourdough croutons – simply cube the end of a stale loaf of sourdough and bake in the oven for 20 mins with olive oil and a generous sprinkling of salt.
-Bring a pot of salty water to the boil while roughly chopping the potatoes into small chunks. Cook the potato pieces until soft. Keep the water.
-Finely slice the white onion, leek and cavalo nero and sautee in olive oil, adding salt and pepper to season and a few sprigs of thyme. When the onion and leek are soft and slightly golden, add the garlic.
-Add the cooked potato, leeks, onion, cavalo nero and garlic to a blender, along with either some of the potato water OR a cup of chicken
bone broth, and half a tin of cannellini beans. Blend until smooth. You can adjust the consistency by adding a little more water or broth if a thinner soup is desired, or by reducing to make it thicker.
-Transfer to a large pot and add the remaining cannellini beans. Leave to simmer for about 30 mins. Add a few more sprigs of fresh thyme and the shredded chicken toward the end, warm and season to taste.
-Serve in bowls and scatter the sourdough croutons for some crunch, or use a few sprigs of thyme for a gluten-free garnish.

Buon appetite!
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