Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, minestrone. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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

In a stockpot, saute the onions, celery and parsley in oil until tender. Stir in the broth, tomatoes, tomato sauce, cabbage, carrots, basil, salt and pepper. I created this soup after becoming tired of the excess salt and lack of veggies in canned minestrone.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook minestrone using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make MINESTRONE:

1. Make ready liquids
2. Take V-8 juice
3. Take 10.5 oz. beef consomme'
4. Make ready water
5. Take spices
6. Prepare sea salt
7. Take course black pepper
8. Prepare italian seasoning
9. Make ready crushed red pepper
10. Prepare minced garlic
11. Make ready canned items
12. Make ready 15 oz. kidney beans
13. Get 15 oz. green beans
14. Take 15 oz. stewed tomatoes
15. Prepare fresh vegetables
16. Prepare sliced zucchini
17. Prepare thinly sliced carrots
18. Get thinly sliced celery
19. Get shredded cabbage
20. Make ready diced onion
21. Take uncooked pasta
22. Make ready small shell pasta
23. Prepare meat
24. Make ready ground pork sausage

Common ingredients include beans, onions, celery, carrots, stock, and tomatoes. There is no set recipe for minestrone, since it can be usually made out of whatever vegetables are at one's disposal. Minestrone means 'big soup' in Italian, and this soup is sure to satisfy even the biggest of appetites. Served with a crisp loaf of bread, it's a meal in itself!

Steps to make MINESTRONE:

1. Using a LARGE crockpot, place every thing BUT the uncooked pasta in the crockpot in the order of listed ingredients.
2. After everything but the pasta is in the crockpot, cook for 4 hours on crockpot "high" setting.
3. Prepare water in a sauce pan for boiling pasta. Add a tablespoon of olive oil and a pinch os salt to the water.
4. When water comes to a boil, drop pasta in and boil for 1 minute less than the "al dente" instructions on the package.
5. When pasta is done, rinse thoroughly through a strainer with COLD water and set it aside.
6. When soup has cooked for the 4 hours, add the cooked pasta quickly, and cook on crockpot high setting for another 1/2 hour.
7. At the end of cooking time, keep soup on crockpot "warm" setting until ready to serve. (Serve immediately when possible.)
8. Serve with garlic chessy bread.

Minestrone typically includes lots of leafy greens, other veggies, and beans. You're only limited by the contents of your refrigerator and pantry. This beloved Italian soup isn't just hearty and healthy – it's really flexible. Minestrone typically includes lots of leafy greens, other veggies, and beans. Minestrone is a hearty Italian vegetable soup made with tomato-y broth and pasta or rice.

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