Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, minestrone soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really 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 well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Minestrone soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook minestrone soup using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Minestrone soup:

1. Take olive oil
2. Prepare medium onion diced
3. Make ready large carrots peeled and chopped
4. Prepare celery chopped
5. Prepare garlic minced
6. Prepare fresh baby spinach washed and trimmed
7. Take large russet potato peeled and cubed
8. Prepare diced tomatoes
9. Make ready tomato paste
10. Prepare kidney beans
11. Make ready low sodium chicken stock
12. Get short cut pasta
13. Get basil leaves

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Steps to make Minestrone soup:

1. In a large heavy bottom soup pot heat the olive oil on medium heat and sauté the pancetta until crispy, just a couple minutes. Once the pancetta is crispy remove from the pan and set aside.
2. Add the chopped onion, carrots and celery and sauté until the vegetables start to cook down and caramelize about 3 minutes, add the potato and garlic and sauté for 3 to 5 minutes, you want all the vegetables to get a golden brown color all over.
3. Add the kidney beans, diced tomatoes, tomato puree and the chicken stock, place a lid on the pan turn the heat to medium high and cook for 30 minutes.
4. When all the vegetables are cooked (mixture should be slightly thicker) season with salt and pepper to taste and add the pasta (cook the pasta according to package instructions) when the pasta is about 2 minutes away from being done add the spinach and basil, cook just until the spinach is wilted . Serve with good crusty Italian bread and add some shredded Parmesan cheese if you'd like

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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