Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, minestrone soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Minestrone is a thick, mixed vegetable soup using almost any combination of seasonal vegetables. Short cuts of pasta or rice may also be added. Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat.
Minestrone Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Minestrone Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook minestrone soup using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
- Prepare 2 tbsp. olive oil
- Make ready 1 tbsp. unsalted butter
- Prepare 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
- Make ready 2 stalks celery, diced
- Take 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 1/4 cup (2 oz.) tomato paste
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. each oregano, dried basil
- Prepare 1/4 tsp. ground thyme
- Make ready 1 can (28 oz.) fire roasted crushed tomatoes
- Get 4 cups unsalted vegetable broth
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 3/4 tsp. salt
- Take 1/4 tsp. pepper
- Take 2 small potatoes, scrubbed and diced
- Take 1 zucchini, diced
- Prepare 1 yellow squash, diced
- Make ready 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- Take 1 cup ditalini pasta (or other small shape)
- Prepare 2 heaping cups spinach, roughly chopped
Minestrone soup is an Italian classic! This version is made with cannellini beans, chicken stock, cabbage, potato, zucchini, carrots, plum tomatoes, and Parmesan cheese. Photography Credit: Elise Bauer 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).
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.
Once the oil is shimmering, add the chopped onion, carrot, celery, tomato paste and a pinch of salt. Everyone loves minestrone soup, and this copycat Olive Garden Minestrone Soup recipe is very simple to make at home - it does not require much work. Just let everything simmer away and dinner is served! Plus this is a great soup to hit the spot at any time of the year. In a large saucepan, saute the carrots, celery and onion in oil and butter until tender.
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