Main Meals

Alphabet soup

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Easy
15 minutes
30 minutes

This soup is so much fun to eat and comes together so quickly. Use whatever veggies you have on hand to make it and add shredded leftover chicken to bulk it up.

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Ingredients

Method
  • 4 T extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 carrots, peeled and diced
  • 2 celery sticks, chopped
  • 1 leek, roughly chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 2 large baby marrows, sliced
  • 1 t dried origanum
  • 50 g tomato paste
  • 1 litre vegetable stock
  • 100 g Woolworths kids’ alphabet-shaped pasta
  • 1 x 400 g can cannellini beans, drained
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Method

Ingredients

1. Heat the oil in a saucepan. Fry the carrots, celery and leek until softened, then add the garlic and fry until fragrant.

2. Add the baby marrows and origanum, then stir in the tomato paste and stock. Add the pasta and stir.

3. Simmer for 5–8 minutes until the pasta is cooked through and the soup has thickened slightly. Stir in the beans and season to taste.

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Videography: Romy Wilson and Shavan Rahim
Photography: Shavan Rahim
Food assistant: Ellah Maepa

Khanya Mzongwana

Recipe by: Khanya Mzongwana

If you're anything like our deputy food editor Khanya Mzongwana, you're obsessed with uniqueness and food with feeling. Cook her family-tested favourites, midweek winners and her mouth-wateringly fresh takes on plant-based eating.

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