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Minestrone Soup Recipe

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Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 2 stalks celery, finely chopped (around 1 cup)
  • 1 leek, quartered lengthwise and finely chopped
  • 2 courgettes, quartered lengthwise and chopped
  • 1/2 red capsicum, finely chopped
  • 2 carrots, finely peeled and finely chopped
  • 2 rashers bacon, fat removed and chopped
  • 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes
  • 4 cups chicken stock
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 420g can white beans (use cannellini, butter or haricot beans)
  • 1/3 cup small pasta (risoni, alphabets, tiny macaroni - whatever you can find)
  • handful fresh parsley, chopped
  • salt and pepper

How to make Minestrone soup

  1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan and toss in the onion, garlic, celery and leek and stir until beginning to soften.
  2. Add the bacon, cook for 2 more minutes.
  3. Add the other vegetables and cook over a gentle heat for around 10 minutes, stirring frequently, until vegetables begin to soften.
  4. Add the tomatoes, stock, sugar, salt and pepper and simmer for 10 minutes.
  5. If you like your soup vegetables very soft, cook them longer, but I like them to retain their texture.
  6. When the vegetables are tender add the beans, pasta and parsley and simmer a further 10 minutes, stirring frequently to prevent the pasta from sticking to the base of the pan.
  7. Taste and add salt or pepper as required.
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