Not-exactly Minestrone Soup
Not-exactly Minestrone Soup

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, not-exactly minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Not-exactly Minestrone Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Not-exactly Minestrone Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Heat the oil in a stock pot or large saucepan. Add the garlic and fry for a further minute. 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.

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

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

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. This makes enough for four big bowls of soup.

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.

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. Stir in the green beans, tomato sauce, kidney beans, Italian seasoning and chicken stock. The trick with this soup is to vary the time each vegetable spends cooking.

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