Minestrone Soup is the mixture of a soup and a meal. Filled with vegetables, rice or pasta and topped with parmesan cheese, it is the best way to enjoy a cold, wintery day!
Do you need a warm, chunky soup to get you through the cold weather?
Maybe you want a delicious meal for your romantic Italian night in.
I have the perfect soup for you – Minestrone Soup!
This is a easy, healthy and delicious recipe that while it is bubbling away on the stove top, fills your home with delicious, comforting aromas!
The best part to making minestrone soup is that you can use a range of different vegetables…whatever vegetables you have on hand. Adding the pasta makes Minestrone into a meal all on its own. To change it up, sometimes we use rice instead of the pasta …delicious!
First Tip – Sometimes we add gluten free pasta or rice, while it is bubbling away on the stove and then serve it in a large stone bowl, with crusty bread.
Other times we serve it in a large soup mug that has cooked rice on the bottom and then we pour the soup on top. This way it is still gluten free but it is ‘just a little different’ to scoop down and find the rice that is soaked in the delicious soup….delicious!!
Second Tip – Add in a few leaves from the celery stalks, while the soup is bubbling away. It really adds a extra flavour to the soup !
Recipe for Minestrone Soup!
Magnificent Minestrone Soup!
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A delicious, full-flavoured and healthy soup...perfect for those cold, wintery days!
Author: www.sparklesintheeveryday.com
Cuisine: Soup
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon oil
- ½ onion, chopped
- ¼ capsicum, diced
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1 celery stick, sliced
- 2 potatoes, cubed
- 1 cup of pumpkin, cubed
- 1 carrot, diced
- 1 zucchini, cubed
- 2 rasher of bacon, chopped
- 1 tin of diced tomatoes
- 1 tin of tinned kidney beans or mixed beans (drained)
- 4 cups of chicken stock
- 2 cups water
- ½ cup pasta (you can use gluten free or wheat pasta or rice)
- ¼ teaspoon sugar
- ¼ teaspoon fresh basil
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
Instructions
- In a large pot, heat oil and fry onion, garlic, bacon and capsicum together till fragrant.
- Add in the chicken stock and water.
- Add in the root vegetables first - potatoes, pumpkin, carrot and then the celery and boil for 5 mins.
- Then add in the basil, sugar, tinned tomatoes, tomato paste and bring to the boil for 5 mins
- Add pasta or rice and simmer for 25 minutes till the vegetables are soft.
- Add the drained kidney beans and continue to cook for a further 5 minutes.
- Serve sprinkled with Parmesan cheese.
By using gluten free pasta and gluten free stock, this isa delicious soup/meal for someone who is Coeliac, gluten intolerant, gluten sensitive, gluten free or wheat intolerant.
This Minestrone Soup is so delicious and healthy and it can be served with gluten free crusty bread....
(and in a very lady like way.…you can use the bread to scoop up the soup ;-))
Enjoy!!
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I LOVE minestrone soup! Thanks for linking up to the Fall Fantabulous Linky Party! I've pinned your post to the Pintabulous Mom's Fall Favorites Board.
Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays Party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂 I can't wait to see what you share next time!
-Cindy
Homemade soups are my favorite – especially in the fall and winter seasons. Can’t wait to try out your Minestrone recipe! Thanks for linking up with Merry Monday last week.