Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. 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 popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Minestrone soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook minestrone soup using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Minestrone soup:

1. Get some butter
2. Prepare 1 onion, finely chopped
3. Prepare 2 carrots, chopped
4. Take 3 sticks celery, chopped
5. Prepare 1-2 cups other vegetables eg squash, sweet potato, leeks.
6. Prepare 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
7. Get Bunch fresh thyme, finely chopped
8. Take 1 tin chopped tomatoes
9. Make ready 500-750 ml vegan/ veggie stock
10. Get 1 tin cannellini beans, drained
11. Prepare Handful kale/ cavolo nero, roughly shredded
12. Make ready 1-2 handfuls fresh basil leaves, roughly shredded
13. Make ready 2-3 handfuls cooked pasta
14. Take Parmesan/ veggie parmesan, grated

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.

Steps to make Minestrone soup:

1. Heat the butter in a oan (with a lid for later). Add the onion and fry for about 10 mins until soft. inion then carrots celery
2. Add the carrots and celery. Cook until starting to go tender.
3. Add the other vegetables (not the greens).
4. Add the garlic and thyme. Cook for 2-3 mins.
5. Add tomatoes and stock. Put the lid on. Bring to the boil and simmer for 15 mins.
6. Add the beans and simmer for 5 mins with lid off.
7. Stir in greens for about 2 mins.
8. And then stir in the basil and pasta.
9. Serve with grated parmesan/ other cheese. Enjoy 😋

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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