Carpenter's Winter Vegetable Casserole I Flagship Wines I Carpenter's Nursery I St Albans I Hertford

Ingredients

• 2 onions - each cut into 6 wedges
• 3 carrots - cut into chunks
• 3 celery sticks - cut into chunks
• 400g sweet potato or swede - cut into chunks
• 1 ltr hot vegetable stock
• 2 garlic cloves - finely chopped
• 3 leeks (300g in total) - thickly sliced
• 150g pearl barley
• 2 tsp dried sage
• salt & pepper
• 3 tbsp coarsely chopped fresh flat leaf parsley to garnish