Smoked hock-bone soup

Recipe's preparation

Method:-

1.
Place hock bone into very large soup pot (Approx 8 litre capacity) and cover with water. Put onto stove, cover, and bring to the boil. Boil for 1 1/2 hours.

2.
While this is cooking, prepare the vegetables.

3.
Quarter the potato and place in TM bowl and chop 5 sec / sp 5 . Tip chopped potato into a large bowl.

4.
Quarter the onion and chop in TM bowl 10 sec / sp 5. Place in bowl with potato.

5.
Cut carrots into chunks and chop in TM bowl 5 sec / sp 5. Tip into other chopped vegetables.

6.
Cut swede, parsnip, and celery into chunks and chop in TM bowl 5 sec / sp 5. Tip into other chopped vegetables.

7.
Cut pumpkin into chunks and chop in TM bowl 15 sec / sp 5.Reserve with other chopped vegetables.

8.
Rinse TM bowl but this water can be added to the soup when the vegetables go in.

9.
Once the hock bone has cooked for 1 1/2 hours, remove bone and meat and place onto a plate to cool.

10.
Meanwhile, add the dried green peas, risoni noodles, pearl barley and salt to the soup and once it has come to the boil, cook for 1/2 hour, stirring occasionally.

11.
Once hock bone is cool enough to handle, break meat off the bone and cut into bite-sized pieces.

12.
Add reserved chopped vegetables, diced bacon, and the hock bone meat into the soup, adding extra water to make it a "soupy" consistency, and bring to boil, then cook for a further hour.

13.
Enjoy with a crusty bread, or bread of your choice!!