Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, minestrone soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This famous Italian soup has been much imitated around the world with very different results. The homemade version is a delicious revelation and is also extremely healthy, as it has pasta, beans and fresh vegetables. Try to make the minestrone a day early and refrigerate as this improves the flavors. Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat.
Minestrone Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Minestrone Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have minestrone soup using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
- Make ready 2 tbsp. olive oil
- Make ready 1 tbsp. unsalted butter
- Take 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
- Prepare 2 stalks celery, diced
- Prepare 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Make ready 1/4 cup (2 oz.) tomato paste
- Take 1/2 tsp. each oregano, dried basil
- Make ready 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
- Get 1/4 tsp. pepper
- Get 2 small potatoes, scrubbed and diced
- Make ready 1 zucchini, diced
- Make ready 1 yellow squash, diced
- Get 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- Get 1 cup ditalini pasta (or other small shape)
- Take 2 heaping cups spinach, roughly chopped
The beauty of this soup is that you can make it a hundred times and have it taste different every time you make it. Essentially, minestrone is a thick, hearty variety of vegetable soup, thanks to the addition of beans and sometimes pasta or rice. Tomatoes, carrots, onion, and celery are usually included, with other vegetables added at the cook's discretion. Minestrone soup Wholesome, hearty & flexible "This hearty and nutritious minestrone soup is brilliant at embracing what you've got in your fridge.
Steps 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.
Tomatoes, carrots, onion, and celery are usually included, with other vegetables added at the cook's discretion. Minestrone soup Wholesome, hearty & flexible "This hearty and nutritious minestrone soup is brilliant at embracing what you've got in your fridge. We make it every month and all the kids love it - it's one of the dishes where they always go in for seconds. Classic Minestrone Soup A Classic Minestrone Soup loaded with vegetables, beans, pasta and flavorful tomato broth. Serve with a spoonful of basil pesto, parmesan and grilled bread.
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