Not-exactly Minestrone Soup

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, not-exactly minestrone soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Not-exactly Minestrone Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Not-exactly Minestrone Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have not-exactly minestrone soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

This version is made with cannellini beans, chicken stock, cabbage, potato, zucchini, carrots Made it for our family of teen boys and we all loved it! 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… The pasta. You can use any pasta in a soup like this or even rice.

Instructions 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.

It has a lot of vegetable in it and I find it "flexible" in a way… The pasta. 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). Well, in spite of that I've been on a soup kick lately. Broccoli soup, tomato soup, roasted butternut squash and bacon soup, vegan carrot soup, today this Light Italian Minestrone Soup, and I still feel manly and cool, as if I was chopping wood.

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