Bean Soup with Pork Shank or Eisbein - The London Economic

Ingredients

• 500 g speckle beans, soaked overnight
• 30 ml olive oil
• 1 onion chopped
• 1 - 2 carrots, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 2 stalks celery, chopped, with the leaves
• 1 kg smoked eisbein or pork shanks
• 3 bay leaves
• 1 sprig of fresh oregano
• 1 sprig of fresh thyme
• 2 lt water
• 80 g flatleaf parsley
• juice of 2 lemons
• extra lemon to serve
• 250 g diced bacon