Broad bean soup with bacon

1. 

broad beans dry 12.25 oz (350 g) • water 1.05 quart (1000 ml)

Sort dried broad beans and put them in cold water for 12 hours (overnight).

2. 

water 1.05 quart (1000 ml) • salt 1 tsp • bay leaf 3 pcs

On the next day pour water out, rinse the broad beans and pour them over with fresh water. Ad salt, bay leaf and cook the broad beans until soft (45 minutes).

3. 

smoked bacon 2 oz (60 g) • onion 3.5 oz (100 g) • pasta 5.25 oz (150 g) • water • salt

While cooking the broad beans, fry in a pan thin slices of smoked bacon with finely chopped onion. In other pot with salted water cook pasta.

4. 

sterilized tomatoes 10.5 oz (300 g)

Cut sterilized tomatoes into small pieces and add them, together with tomato paste from the can, to the bacon with onion.

5. 

Drain pasta, add it to broad beans together with tomato and bacon content of the pan.

6. 

vegetable stock 1.05 quart (1000 ml)

Pour in vegetable broth from bouillon without condiments (2 cubes of bouillon Natur vegetable for 1 liter of water) and bring soup to boil.

7. 

all-purpose flour / plain flour 1 tbsp • sweet cream for cooking ¾ cup (200 ml)

At the end stir in flour mixed with sweet cream for cooking, bring to boil.

8. 

schwarzwald ham 7 oz (200 g)

Cook thin slices of smoked bacon (ham) until crispy (use 3 slices for each portion).

9. 

Cut the bacon ...

10. 

... and top the soup with it.