Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, quinoa minestrone "soup". It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Finding fresh green beans at my grocery store can be hit or miss, so I used canned to make this minestrone soup happen. Traditional minestrone soup includes pasta noodles, but I replaced the noodles with quinoa in order to keep the soup gluten-free. You can easily re-tradition this recipe by adding noodles and skipping the quinoa.

Quinoa Minestrone "Soup" is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Quinoa Minestrone "Soup" is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook quinoa minestrone "soup" using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Minestrone "Soup":

1. Make ready cup of quinoa (around 150g I've used, that wasn't half cup)
2. Get Around 1 liter of veggie stock
3. Get spinach, chopped
4. Prepare basil leaves, chopped
5. Prepare onions, chopped
6. Make ready medium potatoes, diced 🥔
7. Prepare garlic, minced
8. Make ready tomato, diced 🍅
9. Take carrots (3/4 cup), diced
10. Get Green beans (3/4 cup), diced
11. Make ready peek sliced
12. Make ready cup celery, diced
13. Take zucchini, peeled and diced
14. Get Olive oil,
15. Take Salt and pepper

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Steps to make Quinoa Minestrone "Soup":

1. So first of all this recipe is a bit of experiment. I definitely wouldn't call it a soup, as it became quite thick even though I have added some splash of water during cooking, and also I would probably change a few things next time. I will write some conclusions as a last 'step' so I won't forget…
2. First things first, let's dice and prepare everything. On this picture, the 2 darker green bowls contain the "spinach-basil base", in the next step I will write down how I made that and this picture also contains the cooked quinoa.
3. Spinach-basil base: so we got the chopped spinach and basil leaves, and about a liter of stock. We mix them and blend it as smooth as possible. I've used a normal hand blender.
4. So just to don't forget, as a step please cook the quinoa, if you haven't done already.
5. On a bit of oil sauté the onions over medium heat for a few minutes until they get golden a bit,then add the garlic and the diced tomato, bit of salt and pepper and cook for a few minutes.
6. Add the carrots, green beans, leek and celery then mix well.
7. Poor in the blended Spinach-basil base and add the quinoa to the pot. Season to taste. Cook on medium heat for 15 minutes.
8. Finally, add the zucchini and the potatoes and cook for another 15 minutes, or until the veggies reached how you like them (super soft or a bit al dente? 😊) finally if needed season again with salt and pepper.
9. Finally, serve it!
10. And as I was cooking some notes here what I tried to differently. I definitely need more liquid or less filling as at the end, especially on the next day it looks more like a veggie stew. I also wonder how it could be a bit better looking. Advises welcome! 😊

Gluten-free minestrone soup recipes are delicious and great part of our easy vegan recipes. Soup thickness: Healthy Minestrone Soup is a very thick and hearty soup — more the consistency of a stew. This is exactly how we love it, but you can always make it thinner by adding additional broth. Additional protein: The quinoa and beans add a lot of protein, but if you'd like more, stir in some shredded rotisserie chicken near the end of cooking to warm it through. This minestrone packs a serious nutritional punch with quinoa instead of pasta or rice.

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