Warm Your Winter Nights With Annie Smithers' Hearty Minestrone | Homes To Love

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 brown onion, finely diced
• 3 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 small leek, trimmed and thinly sliced; white part only
• 2 carrots, finely diced
• 2 celery sticks, trimmed and finely dice
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
• 70g tomato paste
• 2 large tomatoes, finely chopped
• 1 smoked ham hock
• 100g small pasta shells
• 1/4 savoy cabbage, shredded
• 420g tin white beans (such as cannellini), rinsed and drained
• 100g frozen peas
• 1/2 cup coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley
• 1/2 cup coarsely chopped basil
• 40g shaved parmesan