Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, minestrone soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Minestrone Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Minestrone Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have minestrone soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
- Make ready yellow onion, diced
- Make ready garlic, minced
- Get large rib celery, sliced
- Get medium carrot, diced
- Prepare dried basil
- Prepare dried thyme
- Get dried oregano
- Prepare whole plum tomatoes (32oz)
- Make ready tomato paste
- Take chicken broth
- Get bay leaf
- Take red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- Prepare cannellini or great northern beans, rinsed and drained
- Prepare orzo
- Get medium zucchini, sliced
- Prepare baby spinach
- Get Kosher salt and pepper
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.
Steps to make Minestrone Soup:
- Heat olive oil in a heavy soup pot or Dutch oven. Add onion, garlic, carrots, and celery. Saute several minutes until vegetables are softened.
- Add basil, oregano, and thyme. Saute for additional minute.
- Add tomatoes and use a spatula to break into pieces. Add bay leaf, chicken broth, kidney beans, and cannellini beans.
- Bring to a boil, then lower heat and simmer for 25 minutes.
- Stir in dry pasta and zucchini, and cook for an additional 10 minutes until pasta is al dente. Add spinach and wilt for 1 minute.
- Season to taste with kosher salt and pepper. Serve immediately.
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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