Magnificent Minestrone Soup!
 
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A delicious, full-flavoured and healthy soup...perfect for those cold, wintery days!
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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
  1. In a large pot, heat oil and fry onion, garlic, bacon and capsicum together till fragrant.
  2. Add in the chicken stock and water.
  3. Add in the root vegetables first - potatoes, pumpkin, carrot and then the celery and boil for 5 mins.
  4. Then add in the basil, sugar, tinned tomatoes, tomato paste and bring to the boil for 5 mins
  5. Add pasta or rice and simmer for 25 minutes till the vegetables are soft.
  6. Add the drained kidney beans and continue to cook for a further 5 minutes.
  7. Serve sprinkled with Parmesan cheese.
Recipe by Sparkles in the Everyday! at https://www.sparklesintheeveryday.com/2014/08/magnificent-minestrone-soup.html