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Chicken and vegetable soup with spinach pesto

This one is anything but ordinary. The spinach pesto adds a little something special to the mix you'll love. - by Chantal Walsh
  • 22 Sep 2015
Chicken and vegetable soup with spinach pesto
Cook: 130 Minutes - easy - Serves 6 - gluten-free - egg-free - pregnancy-safe
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This one is anything but ordinary. The spinach pesto adds a little something special to the mix you'll love.

Ingredients

2 carrots, roughly chopped

1 swede, peeled, roughly chopped

1 parsnip, peeled, roughly chopped

2 stalks celery, sliced

1 red onion, diced

1 fresh bay leaf

6 sprigs thyme

¼ cup flat-leaf parsley leaves

6 cloves garlic, smashed

10 black peppercorns

3 litres water

2 skinless chicken breast fillets, diced

Extra ¼ cup flat-leaf parsley leaves

Spinach pesto

50 g baby spinach leaves

½ cup basil leaves

20 g parmesan, finely chopped

¼ cup extra virgin olive oil

1 tbsp water

¼ clove garlic, crushed

Sea-salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper, to season

Method

  1. Put carrot, swede, parsnip, celery, onion, bay leaf, thyme, parsley, garlic, peppercorns and water in a large heavy-based saucepan. Bring to the boil over a high heat, then reduce heat to low and simmer gently uncovered for 2 hours.
  2. Increase heat to medium-high. 
Add chicken and cook for 8 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. Stir in extra parsley.
  3. Meanwhile, to make spinach 
pesto, put baby spinach leaves, basil, parmesan, oil, water and garlic in the bowl of a food processor and process until a chunky sauce forms. Season with salt and pepper.
  4. Serve chicken and vegetable soup dolloped with spinach pesto.
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