Bean & Vegetable Soup with Barley - Sesame Lane

Ingredients

• 2 tbs Olive oil
• 1 medium onion diced
• 2 cloves of garlic minced
• 3 carrots peeled and diced
• 3 stalks of celery diced
• 1 tbs tomato paste
• 1 zucchini diced
• 1.9 litres liquid stock
• 1 can of Cannellini beans- drained
• ¼ cup tomato paste
• 1 cup pearl barley
• 100gm of baby spinach
• 1 can of diced tomatoes
• 1 sprig of thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 handful of parsley