Irish Heart Minestrone Soup - Irish Heart

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 red onion, finely chopped
• 2 leeks, diced
• 2 carrots, diced
• 2 celery sticks, diced
• 2 teaspoons garlic paste or 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1.4 litres (2.5 pints) reduced salt chicken or vegetable stock
• 1 heaped tablespoon tomato purée
• Pinch of dried thyme or 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves, chopped
• 75g (3oz) small pasta shapes
• 400g (14oz) tin haricot beans, drained and rinsed
• Freshly ground black pepper