Ham, Bean and Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

• 250 g leftover ham cut into cubes
• 1 tablesp. rapeseed oil
• 1 large onion (peeled and finely chopped)
• 2 carrots (peeled and chopped)
• 2 sticks celery (chopped)
• 2 leeks (washed and chopped)
• 2 cloves garlic (peeled and chopped)
• 1 heaped teasp. smoked paprika
• ½ teasp. sugar
• 1 x 400g can chopped plum tomatoes
• 1 tablesp. tomato purée
• 700 ml stock reserved from cooking the fillet of ham (or water)
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 x 400g tin Cannellini beans drained and rinsed
• Freshly ground black pepper