Jamie Oliver's Chickpea Rosemary & Pancetta Soup

When I have a free weekend I love to try out new recipes. Today I made Jamie Oliver's "Chickpea and Rosemary & Pancetta Soup" from the magazine "Recipe Yearbook 2011/12"

This is a quick and simple recipe...well it is if your food processor doesn't leak half the liquid all over the worktop and makes a beastly mess all down the kitchen units.

I didn't have any croutons so I served it with a fresh wholemeal bap but to be honest, the chickpea soup is pretty filling so you don't really need to serve any bread with it.

 I'll probably make this again because it's quick to cook, filling, cheap (if you used streaky bacon instead of pancetta) and tasty. Another advantage to this recipe is that all the ingredients are things I usually have to hand.

However, this is yet another Jamie Oliver recipe where there is a discrepancy with yield. The recipe states that it will feed 4 but I had enough soup for at least 6 good sized portions.

I would recommend that you also choose your lunch guest wisely; eating lunch with somebody that is as miserable as sin and exudes negativity does take the edge of any meal, regardless of how tasty it is and how much love and care was put into its creation.

I noticed while flicking through the book that the "Jamie Magazine" is also available as an iPad app.