Cabbage And Bacon Soup

Back to that cabbage I mentioned earlier, I had no chance of using it before the weekend so I made a soup out of it with some streaky bacon. Cabbage soup doesn't sound that exciting but great things happen when some crispy bacon is thrown into the pot. Making a soup is easily the best way to use up leftover veg. Especially when you're cooking for one and you only need two leaves of savoy cabbage for dinner.

Cabbage and Bacon soup

25g buitter
1 small onion, chopped
8 rashers streaky bacon, cut into bite-sizzed pieces
1 450g savoy cabbage, shredded
1 litre vegetable stock
2 tablespoons of creme fraich
1/2 tsp caraway seeds
2 tbsp creme fraiche
1 potato, peeled and diced

1. Melt the butter in a large pan and fry the onion and 6 rashers of bacon together for ten minutes.
2) Next add the cabbage, the stock, potato and caraway seeds. Bring to the boil and turn down the heat to simmer for 30 minutes until the vegetables are soft.
3) Finally fry the remaining two rashers of bacon that that have been cut into pieces. Meanwhile add some creme fraiche and top the soup with crispy bacon.

Now this is a tasty soup - so much better than anything you can buy in the supermarket. Cabbage soup sounds a bit worrying but it is full of flavour and is brilliant with bacon. I'm looking forward to my lunch tomorrow already.