Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Minestrone Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have minestrone soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:

1. Get yellow onion, diced
2. Make ready garlic, minced
3. Take large rib celery, sliced
4. Get medium carrot, diced
5. Get dried basil
6. Take dried thyme
7. Take dried oregano
8. Make ready whole plum tomatoes (32oz)
9. Prepare tomato paste
10. Prepare chicken broth
11. Make ready bay leaf
12. Prepare red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
13. Prepare cannellini or great northern beans, rinsed and drained
14. Take orzo
15. Prepare medium zucchini, sliced
16. Take baby spinach
17. Take Kosher salt and pepper

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 Minestrone soup. Wholesome, hearty & flexible "This hearty and nutritious minestrone soup is brilliant at embracing what you've got in your fridge.

Instructions to make Minestrone Soup:

1. Heat olive oil in a heavy soup pot or Dutch oven. Add onion, garlic, carrots, and celery. Saute several minutes until vegetables are softened.
2. Add basil, oregano, and thyme. Saute for additional minute.
3. Add tomatoes and use a spatula to break into pieces. Add bay leaf, chicken broth, kidney beans, and cannellini beans.
4. Bring to a boil, then lower heat and simmer for 25 minutes.
5. Stir in dry pasta and zucchini, and cook for an additional 10 minutes until pasta is al dente. Add spinach and wilt for 1 minute.
6. Season to taste with kosher salt and pepper. Serve immediately.

We make it every month and all the kids love it - it's one of the dishes where they always go in for seconds. It's super-easy to tweak according to the vegetables you have in the house. 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.

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