Chickpea & Spinach Soup

Provides
1 serve of legumes Each serve is 100g of legumes. GLNC recommends 2-3 serves each week.

Serves: 4

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 60 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 medium red onion, finely chopped
• 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
• 2 celery stalks, leaves reserved, stalks finely sliced
• 1 medium carrot, thinly sliced
• ½ teaspoon mixed dried herbs
• ¼ teaspoon chilli flakes
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon sugar
• 1 cup puréed tomato
• 2 × 400g canned chick peas, drained
• 4 cups (1 litre) water
• 1 cup (50 g) baby spinach

Method

1. Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat and sauté onion, garlic, celery, carrot until onion is translucent.
2. Stir through herbs, chilli flakes, salt, sugar, puréed tomato, chick peas and water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, for about 1 hour.
3. Just before serving, toss through spinach and season with pepper.

Tip

You could add grated kefalograviera or parmesan cheese at the end, but note that this will affect the fat and sodium content.

Recipe kindly provided by Professor Catherine Itsiopoulos.