Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, minestrone soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Soup so good we couldn't hide it in a can. Bring high-quality ingredients and flavors to your pantry. The homemade version is a delicious revelation and is also extremely healthy, as it has pasta, beans and fresh vegetables. Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have minestrone soup using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone soup:
- Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 medium onion diced
- Take 2 large carrots peeled and chopped
- Make ready 2 stalks celery chopped
- Get 1 clove garlic minced
- Prepare 1 bag (5 oz) fresh baby spinach washed and trimmed
- Take 1 large russet potato peeled and cubed
- Get 1 can (14 oz) diced tomatoes
- Make ready 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- Get 1 can (15 oz) kidney beans
- Take 4 (14 oz) cans low sodium chicken stock
- Take 1 cup short cut pasta
- Prepare 6-7 basil leaves
Directions In a stockpot, saute the onions, celery and parsley in oil until tender. Stir in the broth, tomatoes, tomato sauce, cabbage, carrots, basil, salt and pepper. Italian Minestrone soup is made with seasonal veggies, legumes and small pasta shape or rice. The beauty of this soup is that you can make it a hundred times and have it taste different every time you make it.
Steps to make Minestrone soup:
- In a large heavy bottom soup pot heat the olive oil on medium heat and sauté the pancetta until crispy, just a couple minutes. Once the pancetta is crispy remove from the pan and set aside.
- Add the chopped onion, carrots and celery and sauté until the vegetables start to cook down and caramelize about 3 minutes, add the potato and garlic and sauté for 3 to 5 minutes, you want all the vegetables to get a golden brown color all over.
- Add the kidney beans, diced tomatoes, tomato puree and the chicken stock, place a lid on the pan turn the heat to medium high and cook for 30 minutes.
- When all the vegetables are cooked (mixture should be slightly thicker) season with salt and pepper to taste and add the pasta (cook the pasta according to package instructions) when the pasta is about 2 minutes away from being done add the spinach and basil, cook just until the spinach is wilted . Serve with good crusty Italian bread and add some shredded Parmesan cheese if you'd like
Italian Minestrone soup is made with seasonal veggies, legumes and small pasta shape or rice. The beauty of this soup is that you can make it a hundred times and have it taste different every time you make it. Minestrone is a hearty Italian vegetable soup made with tomato-y broth and pasta or rice. I've been working hard on this recipe and I'm so excited to share it with you. Minestrone was traditionally made to use up leftover vegetables, so feel free to use any seasonal vegetables and greens you have on hand.
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