Not-exactly Minestrone Soup

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Great recipe for Not-exactly Minestrone Soup. Another soup (vaguely inspired by the Italian staple) using up vegetables before they "go off" and other ingredients from the larder. If I had any celery, that'd be in too. Basically, just use up any vegetables to hand.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have not-exactly minestrone soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Not-exactly Minestrone Soup:
  1. Make ready 1 tbsp Oil
  2. Make ready 1 onion, chopped
  3. Prepare 4 cloves garlic, chopped
  4. Take 2 tbsp tomato purée
  5. Get 1 leek, sliced
  6. Take 3 carrots, diced
  7. Take 1 pepper, deseeded and diced
  8. Take 100 g chestnut mushrooms, chopped
  9. Prepare A few cherry tomatoes, halved
  10. Get 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
  11. Prepare 2 litres vegetable stock. “Marigold” or stock cubes fine
  12. Take Handful dried pasta. I’ve used Trofie but otherwise break large types of pasta into pieces
  13. Take 400 g tin cannelloni beans, drained
  14. Make ready 1⁄4 cabbage in strips. The core stalk has also been used, diced
  15. Take 1 tsp each dried oregano and thyme
  16. Get 1⁄2 tsp dried basil
  17. Take Grated Parmesan cheese

Stir in the green beans, tomato sauce, kidney beans, Italian seasoning and chicken stock. I am not exactly a minestrone fan and I prefer tomato soup to minestrone, which has a milder tomato taste. But minestrone seems to be a healthier choice as compare to tomato soup (i can be wrong about that). It has a lot of vegetable in it and I find it "flexible" in a way… Heat olive oil in a large heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat.

Steps to make Not-exactly Minestrone Soup:
  1. Heat the oil in a stock pot or large saucepan. Gently fry the onion for 3 minutes, only stirring to avoid sticking.
  2. Add the garlic and fry for a further minute. Then stir in the tomato purée, pepper, mushrooms and the leek and continue to fry gently for another 2 minutes.
  3. Stir in the carrots and continue gently frying for 2 minutes or until all the vegetables are nicely softened but not browned. Add the cherry tomatoes and give it all another gentle stir.
  4. Add the tinned tomatoes and the stock. Gently but throughly stir, add the oregano, thyme and basil, bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer, put a lid on and cook for 15 minutes.
  5. Add the beans and the pasta, stir and continue to cook until the pasta is cooked, around 8-12 minutes.
  6. Stir in the cabbage and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Then season to taste and serve piping hot, with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese.

But minestrone seems to be a healthier choice as compare to tomato soup (i can be wrong about that). It has a lot of vegetable in it and I find it "flexible" in a way… Heat olive oil in a large heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat. Add water and bring to a boil. You can use any pasta in a soup like this or even rice. This is actually the macaroni I saved from the box of macaroni and cheese that I sacrificed for my Easy Cheesy Popcorn (I just used the cheese packet).

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