Foodista | Recipes, Cooking Tips, and Food News | Soup with string beans, garlic and bacon

Ingredients

• 200g thinly sliced bacon, cut into small strips
• 1 tbs olive oil
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, finely sliced
• 500 g young, green string beans, cut in half
• 1 large carrot cut into thin slices
• 1 stalk celery, finely chopped
• 200g canned chopped tomatoes
• 1 tbs tomato paste
• A good pinch of dried thyme
• A good pinch of dried basil
• 1 l chicken or vegetable stock from 2 cubes
• A pinch of sugar
• ¼ tsp pepper
• A handful of small sized pasta
• Parmesan cheese (optional)