Pasta Soup

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup macaroni
• 1 cup kidney beans, soaked overnight and boiled with salt
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 2 garlic cloves crushed
• 2 spring onion bulb, cut into thin slices
• 5-6 babycorns, sliced
• 4 cups vegetable stock
• 3 tablespoons tomato puree
• 2 spring onion greens, cut into thin slices
• 1 tomato finely chopped
• 2 teaspoons tobasco sauce
• Salt to taste
• Black pepper powder  to taste
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 6-8 fresh basil leaves torn

Method

1. Heat oil in a deep non-stick pan, add garlic, spring onion bulbs and babycorns and sauté for two minutes.
2. Add kidney beans and vegetable stock and mix well.
3. Add macaroni and mix. Cover and simmer for ten minutes or till the macaroni gets cooked.
4. Stir in tomato puree, spring onion greens, tomato and mix.
5. Add Tabasco sauce, salt, pepper powder, thyme and basil leaves and mix well.
6. Serve hot.

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