Easiest Way to Cook Tasty MINESTRONE

Easiest Way to Cook Tasty MINESTRONE Delicious, fresh and tasty.

MINESTRONE. In a stockpot, saute the onions, celery and parsley in oil until tender. Stir in the broth, tomatoes, tomato sauce, cabbage, carrots, basil, salt and pepper. I created this soup after becoming tired of the excess salt and lack of veggies in canned minestrone.

Minestrone (/ ˌ m ɪ n ɪ s ˈ t r oʊ n i /; Italian: [mineˈstroːne]) is a thick soup of Italian origin made with vegetables, often with the addition of pasta or rice, sometimes both.

Common ingredients include beans, onions, celery, carrots, stock, and tomatoes.

There is no set recipe for minestrone, since it can be usually made out of whatever vegetables are at one's disposal.

You can have MINESTRONE using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of MINESTRONE

1. You need of liquids.

2. You need 20 oz of V-8 juice.

3. Prepare 1 can of 10.5 oz. beef consomme'.

4. Prepare 3 1/4 cup of water.

5. It’s of spices.

6. It’s 1 tsp of sea salt.

7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of course black pepper.

8. It’s 1 tbsp of italian seasoning.

9. Prepare 1/4 tsp of crushed red pepper.

10. It’s 1 tsp of minced garlic.

11. Prepare of canned items.

12. Prepare 2 can of 15 oz. kidney beans.

13. It’s 1 can of 15 oz. green beans.

14. You need 1 can of 15 oz. stewed tomatoes.

15. Prepare of fresh vegetables.

16. It’s 2 small of sliced zucchini.

17. It’s 1 cup of thinly sliced carrots.

18. You need 1/2 cup of thinly sliced celery.

19. You need 1 cup of shredded cabbage.

20. You need 1/2 cup of diced onion.

21. It’s of uncooked pasta.

22. You need 1 1/2 cup of small shell pasta.

23. Prepare of meat.

24. Prepare 1 lb of ground pork sausage.

Minestrone is a thick, mixed vegetable soup using almost any combination of seasonal vegetables.

Short cuts of pasta or rice may also be added.

I nixed the potatoes, added extra celery, zuchini, green beans and carrots.

Minestrone typically includes lots of leafy greens, other veggies, and beans.

MINESTRONE step by step

1. Using a LARGE crockpot, place every thing BUT the uncooked pasta in the crockpot in the order of listed ingredients..

2. After everything but the pasta is in the crockpot, cook for 4 hours on crockpot "high" setting..

3. Prepare water in a sauce pan for boiling pasta. Add a tablespoon of olive oil and a pinch os salt to the water..

4. When water comes to a boil, drop pasta in and boil for 1 minute less than the "al dente" instructions on the package..

5. When pasta is done, rinse thoroughly through a strainer with COLD water and set it aside..

6. When soup has cooked for the 4 hours, add the cooked pasta quickly, and cook on crockpot high setting for another 1/2 hour..

7. At the end of cooking time, keep soup on crockpot "warm" setting until ready to serve. (Serve immediately when possible.).

8. Serve with garlic chessy bread..

You're only limited by the contents of your refrigerator and pantry.

This beloved Italian soup isn't just hearty and healthy – it's really flexible.

Minestrone typically includes lots of leafy greens, other veggies, and beans.

Pancetta (optional) - since minestrone is a vegetable soup it's a perfect meal for lent.

So pancetta, guanciale or lard cut in cubes is completely optional, but it gives an incredible rich, intense flavor to the veggies as if they were cooked in meat stock (which by the way is also an option).