Winter cannellini bean soup recipe | Good Food

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 4 shallots finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves finely chopped
• 1 carrot finely chopped
• 2 celery sticks, finely chopped
• 2 leeks finely chopped
• 140g streaky bacon finely chopped
• 1.4l chicken stock or vegetable stock (Kallo is good)
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 tsp chopped fresh oregano or marjoram or ½ tsp dried
• 2x 450g cans cannellini beans drained and rinsed
• a handful of flatleaf parsley chopped
• extra-virgin olive oil
• 6 tiny parsley sprigs