Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Minestrone Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Minestrone Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.

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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook minestrone soup using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:

1. Take onion (1 large – chopped) / 8 oz.
2. Take carrot (3 medium – cubed) / 6 oz.
3. Prepare potato (2 large – peeled and cubed) / 16 oz.
4. Take celery (3 sticks – sliced) / 9 oz.
5. Prepare cabbage (shredded) /4½ oz.
6. Make ready spinach (chopped /4½ oz.
7. Make ready plum tomatoes x chopped / 14oz. cans
8. Prepare butter cannellini beans x or / 14oz. cans
9. Make ready spaghetti , broken into short lengths / 5 oz.
10. Take tomato purée (or cassata)
11. Prepare vegetable stock / 60 fl. oz.
12. Get mixed Italian herbs
13. Get pepper ground
14. Get garlic powder
15. Make ready “Spray2Cook” (a word used to describe any low-cal. non-stick cook’s oil spray)

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. Microwave the onion and carrot together for 4 minutes.
2. Microwave the potato and celery together for 4 minutes.
3. While the potato and celery are microwaving put the onion and carrot in a large lidded pan, well sprayed with Spray2Cook, on a high heat.
4. Stir regularly to ensure nothing sticks. Add the potato and celery and (hot) stock. Add the beans, plum tomatoes, tomato purée, herbs, pepper and garlic powder. Bring to boil then simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Add the pasta, cabbage and spinach - return to a simmer for 15 minutes.
6. Check the pasta is cooked to you liking and serve.

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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