🥘  Carole’s cabbage and bacon soup with nutmeg

Ingredients:

• 3 rashers bacon – finely chopped
• 1/2 green cabbage (ideally Savoy) finely shredded
• 1 small white onion – finely chopped
• 1 clove garlic – finely chopped
• 1/2 litre milk
• 1/2 litre water
• 1 chicken stock cube
• Ground nutmeg
• Chopped parsley

Step by step:

1. Add the finely chopped bacon to the pan with 2 dessert spoonfuls of oil. Fry off for 3-5 minutes until the bacon is slightly crisp
2. Add the chopped onion and garlic and sautée for 2-3 minutes. Sprinkle over 1 tbsp of plain flour and cook for another minute
3. Add the milk and stir thoroughly. Add pepper to taste and continue cooking and stirring occasionally. Add a good pinch of ground nutmeg. Add the water and chicken stock cube
4. Add the cabbage. Bring to the boil and continue cooking until the cabbage is soft (5-15 minutes), stirring occasionally. Add some chopped parsley. Add more pepper to taste 

Serve in warmed bowls with croutons, crusty bread or crackers.

Tip…The soup will be quite creamy, just add boiling water before serving of you want a thinner soup

If you want to cook a little extra bacon at the beginning and save it, you can add that just before serving in a small stack in the soup bowls with extra parsley and nutmeg