Vegetable-only Minestrone
Vegetable-only Minestrone

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, vegetable-only minestrone. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Vegetable-only Minestrone is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Vegetable-only Minestrone is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Stir in the green beans, spinach and pasta. Stir chicken broth, tomato juice, diced tomatoes and their juice, spinach, zucchini, carrots, celery, cannellini beans, Italian seasoning, salt, and black pepper. Minestrone means "big soup", and this big soup needs only thick slices of a whole-grain bread to make a big meal.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegetable-only minestrone using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegetable-only Minestrone:
  1. Take 1 clove Garlic
  2. Prepare 1 Onion
  3. Take 1 Carrot
  4. Take 2 Zucchini
  5. Get 2 Potatoes
  6. Get 1 can Canned tomatoes
  7. Make ready 1 can Cooked white kidney beans
  8. Get 1 leaf Bay leaves (if available)
  9. Prepare 4 tbsp Olive oil
  10. Take 1/2 tsp Salt
  11. Prepare 1000 ml Water

Add some cooked pasta, a little dried basil and top with a fresh grating of Parmesan cheese. Add some diced acorn squash or butternut squash, a handful of cooked brown rice, a sprinkling of nutmeg and some chopped parsley. Peel and finely chop the garlic and onion. Trim and roughly chop the carrots, celery and courgette, then add the vegetables to a large bowl.

Instructions to make Vegetable-only Minestrone:
  1. Mince the garlic and dice the onion, carrot, zucchini, and potatoes. Briefly soak the potatoes in water.
  2. Spread the olive oil in a pot. Sauté the garlic and onion until they are soft.
  3. Add the carrot, zucchini, and potatoes and continue to sauté.
  4. Pour in the water and turn up the heat. When it comes to a boil, lower the heat and skim off the scum. Add the bay leaf. Put the lid on the pot and simmer slowly for 30 minutes.
  5. Add the canned tomatoes (with the juice; add everything when using canned diced tomatoes, and mash it with your hands when using whole) and the salt. Cover the pot again, and continue to simmer for another 30 minutes.
  6. Drain the white kidney beans in a colander. Run them quickly under water and add into the pot to cook for another 10 minutes. Taste, and season with salt and pepper.

Heat a few tablespoons of oil in a large pot and add the onion, carrot, celery and leeks along with the garlic and herbs and cook until fragrant and starting to caramelize. It's healthy, packed with vegetables and Italian herbs and spices. My mom has the most INCREDIBLE hearty vegetable soup recipe ever! I have tried many other recipes in the past but nothing ever comes close to this family version. Tips for healthy vegetable soup: -Use low sodium broth.

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