Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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 well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Minestrone Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are 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 can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:

1. Prepare olive oil
2. Take unsalted butter
3. Take large carrots, peeled and diced
4. Prepare celery, diced
5. Prepare yellow onion, diced
6. Get garlic, minced
7. Get tomato paste
8. Prepare each oregano, dried basil
9. Make ready ground thyme
10. Make ready fire roasted crushed tomatoes
11. Prepare unsalted vegetable broth
12. Prepare bay leaves
13. Make ready salt
14. Take pepper
15. Take small potatoes, scrubbed and diced
16. Make ready zucchini, diced
17. Take yellow squash, diced
18. Get unsalted cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
19. Prepare ditalini pasta (or other small shape)
20. Take heaping cups spinach, roughly chopped

It's super-easy to tweak according to the vegetables you have in the house. 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 Essentially, minestrone is a thick, hearty variety of vegetable soup, thanks to the addition of beans and sometimes pasta or rice.

Instructions to make Minestrone Soup:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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. 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). 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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