Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, minestrone soup. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Minestrone Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Minestrone Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook minestrone soup using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
- Make ready 2 tbsp. olive oil
- Get 1 tbsp. unsalted butter
- Prepare 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
- Get 2 stalks celery, diced
- Get 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- Take 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Make ready 1/4 cup (2 oz.) tomato paste
- Take 1/2 tsp. each oregano, dried basil
- Make ready 1/4 tsp. ground thyme
- Make ready 1 can (28 oz.) fire roasted crushed tomatoes
- Get 4 cups unsalted vegetable broth
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 3/4 tsp. salt
- Take 1/4 tsp. pepper
- Prepare 2 small potatoes, scrubbed and diced
- Prepare 1 zucchini, diced
- Make ready 1 yellow squash, diced
- Get 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- Take 1 cup ditalini pasta (or other small shape)
- Make ready 2 heaping cups spinach, roughly chopped
I also added a can of green beans, used kidney instead of cannellini beans, and used shredded spinach instead of cabbage. Minestrone soup is an Italian classic! This version is made with cannellini beans, chicken stock, cabbage, potato, zucchini, carrots, plum tomatoes, and Parmesan cheese. Photography Credit: Elise Bauer Minestrone soup.
Instructions to make Minestrone Soup:
- In a large pot over medium heat, add the olive oil and the butter. Once it's hot and the butter has melted, stir in the onions, celery and carrot with a big pinch of salt. Cook, stirring occasionally until they have begun to soften up, about 3-5 minutes. Then stir in the tomato paste, garlic, oregano, thyme and basil. Cook about 2-3 minutes more, stirring pretty often.
- Pour a bit of the broth in and deglaze the pan. Then the rest with the crushed tomatoes and bay leaves. Increase the heat to med-high and let this come up to a simmer. Once its simmering, stir in the beans, potatoes, zucchini and yellow squash along with the salt and pepper. Let this all simmer together until the veggies are all tender. Last, take out the bay leaves and stir in the chopped spinach and let it wilt down. Taste and add more salt, pepper, etc until you're happy with the flavor.
- While the soup is coming to a simmer, heat a separate pot of salted water over high heat. Once its boiling, cook the ditalini pasta according to package directions, then drain and set it aside until the soup is done.
- To serve, you can stir the cooked pasta into the soup, or if you're going to have a lot of leftovers, you can just keep them separate and add the pasta to individual bowls and pour the soup over top of it… that way the pasta won't absorb all the liquid.
Wholesome, hearty & flexible "This hearty and nutritious minestrone soup is brilliant at embracing what you've got in your fridge. We make it every month and all the kids love it - it's one of the dishes where they always go in for seconds. It's super-easy to tweak according to the vegetables you have in the house. Pancetta (optional) - since minestrone is a vegetable soup it's a perfect meal for lent. So pancetta, guanciale or lard cut in cubes is completely optional, but it gives an incredible rich, intense flavor to the veggies as if they were cooked in meat stock (which by the way is also an option).
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