Michelle's Freefrom Spring Cabbage Minestrone

Corn, egg, gluten, lactose, milk, nightshade, nut, peanut, sesame, soya & wheat free

This is really not a minestrone at all – except that it includes bacon, cabbage and pasta – but a 'minestrone' sounds so much more exciting than 'cabbage soup'! This is a serious winter meal-in-a-bowl – I defy anyone to fit in another mouthful of anything else after a good helping!

Serves 4Spring cabbage minstrone

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 medium onion chopped fairly small
  • 100g turnip, grated
  • 2 large rashers of fatty back bacon, ideally smoked, chopped small
  • 1 head spring cabbage or green, washed, the stalks removed and chopped fairly small
  • 1.5 litres gluten and wheat free vegetable stock
  • 120g fusilli (We used the Dell'Ugo chickpea fusilli but you could use any other gluten-free fusilli)
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

  1. Heat the oil in a biggish pan and fry the onion, turnip and bacon fairly briskly for around 5 minutes or until they are softening.
  2. Add the cabbage and the stock, bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
  3. Add the pasta continue to cook for a further 5–10 minutes (depending on the pasta) until the pasta is cooked.
  4. Season to taste and, ideally, leave aside for several hours for the flavours to mature.
  5. Reheat to serve and add more water or stock if it is too thick/solid.

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