Recipe: Tasty Minestrone Soup

Recipe: Tasty Minestrone Soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Minestrone Soup. But you can bottle it, and that's exactly what we did. Introducing a Vegetable Minestrone Soup with nothing to hide. Minestrone is a hearty, traditional Italian soup typically made with beans, pasta and lots of vegetables.

Add more tomato paste for a thicker, more stewlike minestrone.

I also added a can of green beans, used kidney instead of cannellini beans, and used shredded spinach instead of cabbage.

Essentially, minestrone is a thick, hearty variety of vegetable soup, thanks to the addition of beans and sometimes pasta or rice.

You can cook Minestrone Soup using 18 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Minestrone Soup

1. Prepare 2 Tbsp of olive oil.

2. Prepare 1 of small onion chopped.

3. Prepare 3 cloves of garlic minced.

4. You need 2 of carrots peeled and diced.

5. You need 1 of medium potato peeled and diced.

6. Prepare 1 of medium zucchini diced.

7. Prepare 1/2 cup of fresh or frozen green pease.

8. You need 1/4 cup of frozen or fresh sweet corn.

9. You need 1 cup of white beans boiled and drained or use can.

10. It’s 2 (14 ounce) of cans diced tomatoes or fresh tomatoes.

11. You need 6 cups of vegetable broth.

12. It’s 1 cup of pasta.

13. It’s 1 tsp of dried basil.

14. Prepare 1/2 tsp of dried oregano.

15. Prepare 1/2 tsp of dried thyme.

16. You need to taste of Salt and black pepper.

17. Prepare 1/4 cup of fresh coriander chopped.

18. It’s 1 of bay leaf.

Tomatoes, carrots, onion, and celery are usually included, with other vegetables added at the cook's discretion.

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 Pancetta (optional) - since minestrone is a vegetable soup it's a perfect meal for lent.

Minestrone Soup instructions

1. Heat olive oil in a large pot. Add onion, garlic, carrot, and Cook for about 5 minutes, or until lightly browned. Add in zucchini, potato, and diced tomatoes. Stir in vegetable broth, then add pease, sweet corn, pasta, basil, oregano, bay leaf, coriander and thyme. Simmer until vegetables and macaroni are tender, about 35 minutes..

2. Season soup with salt and pepper and serve warm with bread..

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).

A Classic Minestrone Soup loaded with vegetables, beans, pasta and flavorful tomato broth.

Serve with a spoonful of basil pesto, parmesan and grilled bread.

It's like every week I'm posting a new soup or stew recipe!

However, if I'm being honest, minestrone is at the top of my favorite soups list.