Chicken Minestrone: Hearty Traditional Italian Minestrone Soup

Ingredients

• ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 red onion, finely diced
• Salt flakes, to taste
• 2 leeks, washed and finely sliced
• 2 litres chicken stock or water
• 1 carrot, grated
• 1 stalk celery, finely diced
• 250g ditali or other small pasta shapes
• ¼ Chinese cabbage, finely sliced
• 350g chicken thigh fillets, thinly sliced
• 400g canned borlotti beans, drained, rinsed and partly crushed
• Handful flat-leaf parsley leaves, chopped