Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Minestrone Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Minestrone Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Minestrone soup is an Italian classic! This version is made with cannellini beans, chicken stock, cabbage, potato, zucchini, carrots, plum tomatoes, and Parmesan cheese. This lentil soup is easy to make and tastes incredible!
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook minestrone soup using 18 ingredients and 32 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
- Make ready 1 clove garlic
- Make ready 1 red onion
- Take 2 carrots
- Prepare 2 stalks celery
- Prepare 1 courgette/zucchini
- Prepare 1 small leek
- Prepare 1 large potato
- Make ready 1 x 400g (15 oz) tin or can of cannellini beans
- Prepare 2 slices higher-welfare smoked streaky bacon
- Take olive oil
- Get 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- Make ready 1 fresh bay leaf
- Prepare 2 x 400g (14-oz) tins or cans plum tomatoes
- Take 1 litre (4 cups) organic vegetable stock
- Make ready 1 large handful of seasonal greens, such as savoy cabbage, curly kale, chard
- Get 100 g (4 oz) wholemeal pasta
- Get 1/4-1/2 bunch fresh basil (optional)
- Get Parmesan cheese
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. 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.
Steps to make Minestrone Soup:
- Peel and finely chop the garlic.
- Peel and finely chop the onion.
- Trim and roughly chop the carrots.
- Trim and roughly chop the celery.
- Trim and roughly chop the courgette/zucchini.
- Then add the vegetables to a large bowl.
- Cut the ends off the leeks, quarter them lengthways.
- Wash them under running water…
- Then cut into 1cm slices. Add to the bowl.
- Scrub and dice the potato.
- Drain the cannellini beans, then set aside.
- Finely slice the bacon.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add the bacon…
- And fry gently for 2 minutes, or until golden.
- Add the garlic, onion, carrots, celery, courgette/zucchini, and leek.
- Add oregano and bay.
- Cook slowly for about 15 minutes, or until the vegetables have softened, stirring occasionally.
- Add the potato, cannellini beans and plum tomatoes….
- Then pour in the vegetable stock.
- Stir well, breaking up the tomatoes with the back of a spoon.
- Cover with a lid and bring everything slowly to the boil, then simmer for about 30 minutes, or until the potato is cooked through. Meanwhile…
- Remove and discard any tough stalks bits from the greens…
- Then roughly chop.
- Using a rolling pin, bash the pasta into pieces while it’s still in the packet or wrap in a clean tea towel.
- To check the potato is cooked, pierce a chunk of it with a sharp knife – if it pierces easily, it’s done.
- Add the greens and pasta to the pan, and cook for a further 10 minutes, or until the pasta is al dente.
- This translates as ‘to the tooth’ and means that it should be soft enough to eat, but still have a bit of a bite and firmness to it.
- Try some just before the time is up to make sure you cook it perfectly.
- Add a splash more stock or water to loosen, if needed.
- Pick over the basil leaves (if using) and stir through.
- Season to taste with sea salt and black pepper, then serve with a grating of Parmesan and a slice of wholemeal bread, if you like.
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