Not-exactly Minestrone Soup

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Great recipe for Not-exactly Minestrone Soup. Another soup (vaguely inspired by the Italian staple) using up vegetables before they "go off" and other ingredients from the larder. If I had any celery, that'd be in too. Basically, just use up any vegetables to hand.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook not-exactly minestrone soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Not-exactly Minestrone Soup:
  1. Get 1 tbsp Oil
  2. Take 1 onion, chopped
  3. Prepare 4 cloves garlic, chopped
  4. Get 2 tbsp tomato purée
  5. Prepare 1 leek, sliced
  6. Make ready 3 carrots, diced
  7. Get 1 pepper, deseeded and diced
  8. Prepare 100 g chestnut mushrooms, chopped
  9. Prepare A few cherry tomatoes, halved
  10. Make ready 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
  11. Take 2 litres vegetable stock. “Marigold” or stock cubes fine
  12. Take Handful dried pasta. I’ve used Trofie but otherwise break large types of pasta into pieces
  13. Prepare 400 g tin cannelloni beans, drained
  14. Get 1⁄4 cabbage in strips. The core stalk has also been used, diced
  15. Make ready 1 tsp each dried oregano and thyme
  16. Get 1⁄2 tsp dried basil
  17. Prepare Grated Parmesan cheese

This classic minestrone soup recipe is healthy, easy to This classic minestrone soup recipe is healthy, easy to make, and tastes. Now this syn-free minestrone soup looks like it'll be a pain in the arse but it's ridiculously easy, although I've taken some liberties with the recipe. The recipe this is cribbed from (Delia Smith) has you sweating vegetables and taking your time. Balls to that: this is soup in a hurry.

Instructions to make Not-exactly Minestrone Soup:
  1. Heat the oil in a stock pot or large saucepan. Gently fry the onion for 3 minutes, only stirring to avoid sticking.
  2. Add the garlic and fry for a further minute. Then stir in the tomato purée, pepper, mushrooms and the leek and continue to fry gently for another 2 minutes.
  3. Stir in the carrots and continue gently frying for 2 minutes or until all the vegetables are nicely softened but not browned. Add the cherry tomatoes and give it all another gentle stir.
  4. Add the tinned tomatoes and the stock. Gently but throughly stir, add the oregano, thyme and basil, bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer, put a lid on and cook for 15 minutes.
  5. Add the beans and the pasta, stir and continue to cook until the pasta is cooked, around 8-12 minutes.
  6. Stir in the cabbage and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Then season to taste and serve piping hot, with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese.

The recipe this is cribbed from (Delia Smith) has you sweating vegetables and taking your time. Balls to that: this is soup in a hurry. This makes enough for four big bowls of soup. Ours looks a bit oily because we didn't cut the fat. Del Conte suggests using borlotti beans, carrots, celery, courgettes, green beans, fresh peas and savoy cabbage, alongside potatoes and Vialone Nano rice to make the Milanese Minestrone.

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