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Minestrone soup
Minestrone is a nutritious Italian hearty soup. The soup contains pasta, beans and various vegetables, which makes it a filling soup that you could eat as a meal. The recipe is flexible; you can add vegetables, pasta and beans of your choice. That is why it is suitable for all seasons and handy for using up ingredients too! It's also a great soup to make large batches of.
- Preparation Time: 15 minutes
- Cooking Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
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2 tbspoil
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1onion finely diced
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2garlic cloves finely chopped
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400 gtomatoes diced, from a can
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1carrot
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1500 mlvegetable stock
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4 tbsptomato purée
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1bay leaf
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100 gwholemeal pasta pasta type of your choice
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1courgette in half slices
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1bell pepper diced
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400 gcannellini beans, butter beans or other beans of your choice canned, drained and rinsed
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3 tspdried Italian herbs
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pepper and salt to taste
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plant-based Parmesan cheese optional, following this recipe
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plant-based pesto optional
Instructions
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Heat the olive oil in a soup pan and fry the onion over low heat for 10 minutes. Then add the garlic and fry for 1 minute. Add the diced tomatoes and let it cook gently for 5 minutes. Then add the winter carrot, stock, Italian herbs, tomato puree and bay leaf and let it cook for 10 minutes, until the carrot is soft.
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Add pasta, courgette and pepper. Stir regularly to prevent the pasta from sticking to the bottom of the pan. Let the soup simmer until the pasta is done, in about 8 minutes.
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Season with pepper and salt and remove the bay leaf before serving. Serve it with some Parmesan cheese and pesto if desired!
