Recipe: To Try At Home Minestrone soup

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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 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Minestrone soup

1. You need of olive oil.

2. You need of butter.

3. You need of onion, chopped.

4. It’s of garlic, chopped.

5. It’s of potato, diced to cubes.

6. Prepare of carrot, chopped.

7. Prepare of celery.

8. Prepare of tomato, chopped.

9. It’s of tomato paste.

10. You need of kidney beans.

11. Prepare of hummus.

12. Prepare of chicken broth.

13. You need of pasta.

14. It’s of basil.

15. It’s of parmesan cheese.

16. Prepare of salt.

17. You need of black pepper.

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

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!

Minestrone soup instructions

1. Heat the olive oil and butter in a large pot over medium-high heat..

2. Add the onion and cook until translucent, about 4 min. Then Add the garlic and cook 30 seconds..

3. Add the celery and carrot and cook until they begin to soften, about 5 min. Stir in the basil, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and pepper to taste; cook 3 more minutes..

4. Add the diced tomatoes & paste + chicken broth to the pot and bring to a boil..

5. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer 10 minutes..

6. Stir in the hummus, potato, kidney beans & pasta and cook until the pasta and vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes..

7. Ladle into bowls and top with the parmesan and chopped basil..

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

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).

Minestrone soup is an Italian classic!

This version is made with cannellini beans, chicken stock, cabbage, potato, zucchini, carrots, plum tomatoes, and Parmesan cheese.