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Hearty beef and vegetable soup

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Ingredients

1 pack good quality diced stewing or braising steak
1 large onion
1 parsmnip
half a diced swede
2 carrots
1 leek
few mushrooms
handful new potatoes halved
4 beef oxo
salt and pepper to taste
2 tsp mixed herbs
cupful of soup mix or dried lentils of your choice
tin of canelleni or butter beans drained and rinsed
1 tablespoon flour
2 litres boiling water

Method

Fry beef and onion in an little olive oil until brown, add the tablespoon of flour and mix well
Add all the other ingredients and simmer for at least one hour.
If at any time the soup becomes too thick add more water and one more stock cube each time. Serve with crusty bread and cooked rice at bottom for a more filling meal
this will keep for three days in the fridge or freezes very well