Warming Winter Lentil Soup | Peninsula Physical Health and Nutrition

Ingredients

• 1 tbs olive oil
• 3 rashers of bacon, fat trimmed and chopped
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 carrot, diced
• 2 sticks of celery, diced
• 1/2 a medium zucchini, diced
• 1 small sweet potato, diced
• 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 1/2 a red chilli, finely chopped
• 2 sprigs of thyme, stems removed
• 1 x 400g tin of lentils
• 100g of dried red lentils
• 1 reduced salt chicken or vegetable stock cube
• 1L water
• 1 x 400g tin of cannelloni beans
• 1 large handful of baby spinach leaves.