Jamie Oliver served up a tasty simple minestrone soup with smoked bacon, cannellini beans, green pesto and garlic bread on Jamie’s £1 Wonders.

The ingredients are: 2 rashers of smoked back bacon, olive oil, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 teaspoons dried thyme, 2 carrots, 2 sticks of celery, 2 onions, 2 x 400g tins of plum tomatoes, 2 x 400g tins of cannellini beans, 1 sweetheart cabbage, 200 g spaghetti, 400 g self-raising flour , plus extra for dusting, 125 g mature Cheddar cheese and ½ x 190g jar of green pesto.

See recipes by Jamie in his book titled: One: Simple One-Pan Wonders available from Amazon now.