Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Minestrone Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Minestrone Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Minestrone soup is an Italian classic! This version is made with cannellini beans, chicken stock, cabbage, potato, zucchini, carrots, plum tomatoes, and Parmesan cheese. Minestrone (/ˌmɪnɪsˈtroʊni/; Italian: [mineˈstroːne]) is a thick soup of Italian origin made with vegetables, often with the addition of pasta or rice, sometimes both.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have minestrone soup using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
- Take 2 tbsp. olive oil
- Take 1 tbsp. unsalted butter
- Take 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
- Make ready 2 stalks celery, diced
- Make ready 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- Get 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Prepare 1/4 cup (2 oz.) tomato paste
- Take 1/2 tsp. each oregano, dried basil
- Take 1/4 tsp. ground thyme
- Take 1 can (28 oz.) fire roasted crushed tomatoes
- Take 4 cups unsalted vegetable broth
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 3/4 tsp. salt
- Prepare 1/4 tsp. pepper
- Take 2 small potatoes, scrubbed and diced
- Get 1 zucchini, diced
- Get 1 yellow squash, diced
- Prepare 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- Make ready 1 cup ditalini pasta (or other small shape)
- Prepare 2 heaping cups spinach, roughly chopped
Minestrone Soup - the best chunky soup in the world! Minestrone Soup is the sort of soup that keeps life interesting - it's filled to the brim with a variety of vegetables, potato, beans and pasta, in a. Minestrone Soup Variations Swap the spinach for Swiss chard or baby kale. To keep this low-carb, omit the pasta, you honestly won't miss it with everything else in this 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.
The minestrone soup I've been serving for years began as Ina Garten's Winter Minestrone soup, but since I can't help but tinker with a recipe, it has since morphed into my own. Vegetarian minestrone soup packed with veggies like celery, carrots, green beans and spinach and simmered in a flavorful, Italian seasoned tomato broth. This Minestrone Soup is an easy vegan homemade soup recipe made with healthy fresh vegetables and hearty beans. It's easy to make and perfect as a comforting meal for busy weeknights. Cook up a pot of Ellie Krieger's healthy Minestrone Soup from Food Network, loaded with fresh veggies, pasta and herbs.
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