🥘 Carole’s minestrone and kielbasa soup…

Kielbasa is the generic name for any Polish meat filled sausage and is available in most Polish supermarkets.

The smoky flavour of the sausage and addition of gnocchi makes this a delicious and hearty soup. Ready in less than half an hour, it freezes well in the very unlikely event there are any leftovers.

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 large carrot, chopped
• 1 medium size onion, chopped
• 2 sticks celery, chopped
• 1 small red pepper, chopped
• 6 mushrooms, chopped
• 2 low salt vegetable stock cubes to make 500ml stock
• 1 tin cannellini beans
• 1 tin tomatoes
• 1/4 Polish sausage, chopped
• 1/2 packet gnocchi
• Chopped parsley

Step by step:

1. Sauté the chopped vegetables in the olive oil, approx 5 minutes
2. Add the tomatoes, stock and sausage. Bring to the boil and simmer for 15-20 minutes, until the vegetables are cooked
3. Add the gnocchi which will thicken the soup and cook for another 3-5 minutes

Notes:

We use Kallo® organic vegetable very low salt stock cubes.