Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

• 1 large onion, sliced
• 1 red pepper, diced
• 450g/1lb mixed potato and parsnip, peeled and sliced
• 25g/1oz barley flakes (optional)
• 1 leek, sliced
• 450g/1lb carrots, scraped and sliced
• 1 tbsp tomato puree
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1.2 ltr/2 pints vegetable stock
• 2 tbsp chopped fresh mixed herbs or 1 tsp dried mixed herbs

Instructions