Minestrone Soup

Minestrone Soup is an Italian vegetable and pasta soup. It is one of the most delicious meals you can have. The refreshing blend will leave you asking for more. You can enjoy it as an everyday food in your kitchen or you can also make it a weekly treat that your kids will absolutely fall in love with.

If you have a large family this is your dinner meal. It can serve about 8 people. So, enjoy this amazing treat on family dinners.

Let’s have a look at how this delicious soup is made!

Do not forget to store some Minestrone Soup in a water bottle from Vaya to sip through the day.

Health Benefits

It is a very healthy combination of different vegetables that you generally avoid because they seem so boring, but their nutrition comes to you quite easily with the minestrone soup.

Savor this fabulous and healthy soup with your friends and family!

Ingredients

italian bacon: 1/4 kg

vegetable oil: 1 tbsp

chopped onion: 1 large or 2 small ones

diced celery: 2 ribs

minced garlic cloves: 3

chicken broth: 2 cups

tomato puree: 1 can

Water as needed

cranberry beans/shelling beans: 1 cup

whole diced cabbage: 1/4

tsp red pepper flakes: 2

dry italian herbs: 2 tsp

salt to taste

garbanzo beans/chickpeas: 1 can

swiss chard leaves: 7-8

ditalini pasta: 2/3 cups

How To Make Minestrone Soup

1. Take a non-stick deep pan.
2. Sauté the bacon into it at low heat until it turns brown.
3. Add chopped onions and diced celery until it turns translucent.
4. Add minced garlic into the mix and let it all cook for about a minute.
5. Add chicken broth, water and tomato puree into the pan.
6. Let it all simmer for a few minutes.
7. Add cranberry beans and cabbage.
8. Spice up this soup with some red pepper flakes, dry Italian herbs and salt.
9. Add some canned garbanzo beans to make the soup even heavier.
10. Turn the heat to medium low and let the soup simmer for about 45 minutes or until the cranberry beans are tender.
11. Until the soup cooks, slice up some Swiss chard leaves, thoroughly washed.
12. Keep adding water to the soup if you feel it’s getting too thick.
13. As soon as you feel that the beans are finally tender, throw in the Swiss chards into the soup. Stir well and let them cook for another 15 minutes.
14. Add more water as the soup thickens as you will need sufficient water to cook the pasta.
15. Add more seasoning of salt and pepper into the soup before adding pasta into it.
16. Throw in the past and let the soup simmer at medium to high heat. In 15 minutes time the pasta will be cooked.
17. Ladle out this amazing big soup into some big bowls and serve it hot!

Trivia

• Minestrone Soup translates to the ‘big’ soup as it has some of the most filling ingredients.
• It was known as one of the humble dishes, as it mostly needed leftover ingredients from other foods.
• It was also one of the favorites for weddings and celebrations.