Minestrone soup

Minestrone soup is real Italian style meal in a bowl and is a perfect way to feed a crowd on a winter's day. The vegetables have a robust flavour and the beans and pasta are filling and nutritious.

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp olive oil

  • 1 onion

    diced

  • 4 cloves garlic

    crushed

  • 3 carrots

    diced

  • 4 celery

    sliced

  • 4 zucchini

    diced

  • 20 green beans

    sliced into 1 cm pieces

  • 2L chicken stock

  • 2L water

  • 1/4 cabbage

    sliced

  • 1 diced tomatoes

  • 1 cup cooked macaroni pasta

  • 1 3 bean mix

    400g, drained and rinsed

Allergy Advice

Contains Gluten

Equipment

  • 1 Soup pot
  • 1 Knife
  • 1 Cutting board

Instructions

  1. Heat olive oil in soup pot and add onion, garlic, celery and carrots. Fry gently for 4 minutes.
  2. Add zucchini, green beans, tinned tomatoes and stock and bring to the boil. Simmer for 5 minutes.
  3. Stir in beans, pasta and cabbage. Add more boiling water to the pot if it needs more liquid. Simmer for 5 minutes and serve.

Notes

Tip
This makes a LOT of soup due to the sheer amount of different vegetables to add to the pot!!
Tip
The sequence I add the vegetable in this soup is important so they don’t lose their structure and go too soft.
Tip
I love to serve this with a good grating of parmesan cheese and some sourdough bread.
Tip
Make sure you taste it before you season.
Variation
You can adjust this to your liking so easily. Add an extra tin of tomatoes or maybe some Italian seasoning to boost the flavour.

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