Baby Friendly Minestrone Soup

Ingredients

• 60ml (1/4 cup olive oil)
• 1 large onion finely diced
• 4 cloves garlic crushed
• 60ml olive oil
• Cut all vegetables into spears
• 2 large carrots
• 1 courgette
• 1 stick celery
• 6 sprigs fresh thyme leaves
• 1 heaped teaspoon English mustard
• 4 tablespoons tomato puree
• 1 400g tin tomatoes
• 1.5ltrs water
• 2 x 400g tin butter beans
• 250g (2 1/2 cups Fussili or Macaroni Pasta Shells)
• Black pepper to season
• 6 large tomatoes
• Fresh thyme leaves
• Parmesan (for smaller babies use a grated goat cheese as it is
• lower in salt)
• Bread toasted