Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, minestrone soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Minestrone Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Minestrone Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have minestrone soup using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
- Take 2 tbsp. olive oil
- Get 1 tbsp. unsalted butter
- Prepare 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
- Prepare 2 stalks celery, diced
- Get 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- Take 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Get 1/4 cup (2 oz.) tomato paste
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. each oregano, dried basil
- Get 1/4 tsp. ground thyme
- Take 1 can (28 oz.) fire roasted crushed tomatoes
- Make ready 4 cups unsalted vegetable broth
- Get 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 3/4 tsp. salt
- Get 1/4 tsp. pepper
- Make ready 2 small potatoes, scrubbed and diced
- Make ready 1 zucchini, diced
- Take 1 yellow squash, diced
- Prepare 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- Prepare 1 cup ditalini pasta (or other small shape)
- Take 2 heaping cups spinach, roughly chopped
Steps to make Minestrone Soup:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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