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Minestrone-style Soup with Quinola Mixed Grains
Take your family’s favourite Italian flavours and turn them into a hearty soup. Vitamin-rich tomatoes, sweet carrots and soft courgettes simmer with fibre-rich lentils. Ground almonds, cashew parm cheez and nutritional yeast give it a delicious cheesy flavour. Get your spoons ready!
1/3 daily fibre
5 of 5 a day
Low sat fat
Serving size
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast (Dried Inactive Yeast, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Thiamine, Vitamin B6, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12.)
- 40g cashew parm cheez (Nuts) (Cashew nuts, Sunflower seeds, Nutritional yeast, Kale, Himalayan pink salt , Lemon peel)
- 1 leek
- 2 tbsp garlic, basil and parsley paste (garlic puree, basil, rapeseed oil, parsley, sea salt, acidity regulator: citric acid)
- 6 tbsp ground almonds (Nuts)
- 2 courgette
- 1 onion
- 250g puy lentils & wholegrain quinoa (48% Cooked Whole Grain Quinoa (Water, Quinoa) 48% Cooked Puy Lentils (Water, Puy lentils) Onion Olive Oil Laurel Salt)
- 1 vegetable stock cube (Celery) (Sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil*, sugar*, vegetables*(6,8%) [celery*, onion*, carrot*, parsnip*, tomato*], sunflower oil*, yeast extract, caramelised sugar*, herbs* & spices* ( lovage*, turmeric*, parsley*, black pepper*) *Organic ingredients)
- 400g chopped tomatoes (Tomatoes, Tomato Juice, Citric Acid (E330))
- 200g chana dal lentils (Chana Dal, Water, Vegetable Stock (Chicory Extract, Carrot Extract, Onion Powder, Tomato Powder, Salt, Yeast Extracts, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavouring))
- 2 tsp smoked paprika & oregano blend (smoked paprika, oregano)
- 2 carrot
Nutritional Information
Calories: 460
Protein: 20g
Carbs: 45g
Fat: 22g
Minestrone-style Soup with Quinola Mixed Grains
Take your family’s favourite Italian flavours and turn them into a hearty soup. Vitamin-rich tomatoes, sweet carrots and soft courgettes simmer with fibre-rich lentils. Ground almonds, cashew parm cheez and nutritional yeast give it a delicious cheesy flavour. Get your spoons ready!
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Cooking Instructions
- Slice the onion into 6 wedges. Cut the carrots into 1/2cm thick discs (peel optional). Slice the leek into 1cm half-moons. Slice the courgettes into 1/2cm thick half-moons.
- Make the cheez crumb; heat a large, deep frying pan on medium-high heat. Add the ground almonds and parm cheez. Toast for 2-3 mins, stirring regularly, until golden brown. Remove and set aside.
- Add 2 tbsp oil to the empty frying pan and turn the heat to high. Add the prepped veg. Cook for 5-7 mins, until softened and golden brown. Add the garlic paste and spice blend, cook for another 1 min then add the nutritional yeast, chopped tomatoes and 600ml hot water. Crumble in the stock cube and stir. Simmer for 10 mins.
- Add the Quinola and the chana dal lentils to the pan. Simmer for 3-4 mins, until thickened but still soupy. Season with sea salt and black pepper to taste.
- Serve the soup in bowls and sprinkle with the cheez crumb.
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