Pasta Soup
Lebbencsleves

1 chopped onion
3 medium-sized potatoes diced
2 chopped sweet peppers
2 tomatoes chopped
fat rendered form 1 thick slice smoked bacon
4 oz broken pasta
1/2 tsp paprika
ground pepper
salt

Fry the onion gently in half the bacon
fat until pale yellow. Remove from the
heat and stir in the paprika. Add the diced
potatoes, peppers, tomatoes and the season.
Add 4 cups of water, bring to the boil and
simmer until the potatoes are cooked. Brown
the pasta in the rest of the bacon fat until
they turn golden-yellow, then cook them in
the soup until they soften.