Minestrone Soup

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Minestrone Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Minestrone Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have minestrone soup using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
  1. Make ready 2 tbsp. olive oil
  2. Make ready 1 tbsp. unsalted butter
  3. Take 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
  4. Get 2 stalks celery, diced
  5. Make ready 1⁄2 yellow onion, diced
  6. Get 4 cloves garlic, minced
  7. Prepare 1⁄4 cup (2 oz.) tomato paste
  8. Take 1⁄2 tsp. each oregano, dried basil
  9. Prepare 1⁄4 tsp. ground thyme
  10. Make ready 1 can (28 oz.) fire roasted crushed tomatoes
  11. Take 4 cups unsalted vegetable broth
  12. Make ready 2 bay leaves
  13. Get 3⁄4 tsp. salt
  14. Take 1⁄4 tsp. pepper
  15. Prepare 2 small potatoes, scrubbed and diced
  16. Make ready 1 zucchini, diced
  17. Take 1 yellow squash, diced
  18. Get 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
  19. Make ready 1 cup ditalini pasta (or other small shape)
  20. Prepare 2 heaping cups spinach, roughly chopped

Add the root vegetables, and stir well to seal them so they do not turn mushy. Add the remaining vegetables, and ingredients except the bacon and pasta. Italian Minestrone soup is made with seasonal veggies, legumes and small pasta shape or rice. The beauty of this soup is that you can make it a hundred times and have it taste different every time you make it.

Steps to make Minestrone Soup:
  1. In a large pot over medium heat, add the olive oil and the butter. Once it's hot and the butter has melted, stir in the onions, celery and carrot with a big pinch of salt. Cook, stirring occasionally until they have begun to soften up, about 3-5 minutes. Then stir in the tomato paste, garlic, oregano, thyme and basil. Cook about 2-3 minutes more, stirring pretty often.
  2. Pour a bit of the broth in and deglaze the pan. Then the rest with the crushed tomatoes and bay leaves. Increase the heat to med-high and let this come up to a simmer. Once its simmering, stir in the beans, potatoes, zucchini and yellow squash along with the salt and pepper. Let this all simmer together until the veggies are all tender. Last, take out the bay leaves and stir in the chopped spinach and let it wilt down. Taste and add more salt, pepper, etc until you're happy with the flavor.
  3. While the soup is coming to a simmer, heat a separate pot of salted water over high heat. Once its boiling, cook the ditalini pasta according to package directions, then drain and set it aside until the soup is done.
  4. To serve, you can stir the cooked pasta into the soup, or if you're going to have a lot of leftovers, you can just keep them separate and add the pasta to individual bowls and pour the soup over top of it… that way the pasta won't absorb all the liquid.

Italian Minestrone soup is made with seasonal veggies, legumes and small pasta shape or rice. The beauty of this soup is that you can make it a hundred times and have it taste different every time you make it. Heat the oil in a large pot. Stir in courgette, tomatoes, stock and water. Minestrone is often lauded for its hearty qualities (the name means "big soup"), evoking romantic visions of peasants as brown and gnarled as their olive trees (Italian soups are "rough and crude.

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