Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, minestrone soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. 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 well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Minestrone Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have minestrone soup using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:

1. Get 225 g onion (1 large – chopped) / 8 oz.
2. Prepare 175 g carrot (3 medium – cubed) / 6 oz.
3. Make ready 450 g potato (2 large – peeled and cubed) / 16 oz.
4. Make ready 250 g celery (3 sticks – sliced) / 9 oz.
5. Make ready 125 g cabbage (shredded) /4½ oz.
6. Make ready 125 g spinach (chopped /4½ oz.
7. Take 1 400 g plum tomatoes x chopped / 14oz. cans
8. Prepare 1 400 g butter cannellini beans x or / 14oz. cans
9. Take 150 g spaghetti , broken into short lengths / 5 oz.
10. Make ready 4 tablespoons tomato purée (or cassata)
11. Make ready 1.75 litres vegetable stock / 60 fl. oz.
12. Get 1 tablespoon mixed Italian herbs
13. Take ½ teaspoon pepper ground
14. Make ready 2 teaspoons garlic powder
15. Get “Spray2Cook” (a word used to describe any low-cal. non-stick cook’s oil spray)

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. 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.

Steps to make Minestrone Soup:

1. Microwave the onion and carrot together for 4 minutes.
2. Microwave the potato and celery together for 4 minutes.
3. While the potato and celery are microwaving put the onion and carrot in a large lidded pan, well sprayed with Spray2Cook, on a high heat.
4. Stir regularly to ensure nothing sticks. Add the potato and celery and (hot) stock. Add the beans, plum tomatoes, tomato purée, herbs, pepper and garlic powder. Bring to boil then simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Add the pasta, cabbage and spinach - return to a simmer for 15 minutes.
6. Check the pasta is cooked to you liking and serve.

Essentially, minestrone is a thick, hearty variety of vegetable soup, thanks to the addition of beans and sometimes pasta or rice. Tomatoes, carrots, onion, and celery are usually included, with other vegetables added at the cook's discretion. 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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