Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a 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 favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Minestrone Soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook minestrone soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
- Make ready 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Get 1 large rib celery, sliced
- Take 1 medium carrot, diced
- Get 2 tsp dried basil
- Take 1 tsp dried thyme
- Prepare 1 tsp dried oregano
- Prepare 1 can whole plum tomatoes (32oz)
- Get 3 tbsp tomato paste
- Get 4 cups chicken broth
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Get 1 can red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- Prepare 1 can cannellini or great northern beans, rinsed and drained
- Take 1/4 cup orzo
- Make ready 1 medium zucchini, sliced
- Take 1-2 cups baby spinach
- Get to taste Kosher salt and pepper
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:
- Heat olive oil in a heavy soup pot or Dutch oven. Add onion, garlic, carrots, and celery. Saute several minutes until vegetables are softened.
- Add basil, oregano, and thyme. Saute for additional minute.
- Add tomatoes and use a spatula to break into pieces. Add bay leaf, chicken broth, kidney beans, and cannellini beans.
- Bring to a boil, then lower heat and simmer for 25 minutes.
- Stir in dry pasta and zucchini, and cook for an additional 10 minutes until pasta is al dente. Add spinach and wilt for 1 minute.
- Season to taste with kosher salt and pepper. Serve immediately.
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. Add some mini turkey meatballs, or even some sauteed crumbled turkey sausage. How To Make Minestrone Soup 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!
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