Food and Travel Magazine | Easy minestrone soup

Ingredients

• 2tbsp olive oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2-4 smoked streaky bacon rashers, diced (optional)
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 2 celery sticks, finely sliced
• 3 vegetables from your fridge (about 200g, such as courgette, carrot, small red pepper, handful of green beans, small leek)
• 750ml hot vegetable stock
• 750g tinned chopped tomatoes
• 75g spaghetti or linguine, broken into small pieces, or small pasta shapes
• green pesto (optional)
• freshly grated parmesan cheese