Magnificent Minestrone Soup!
Author: www.sparklesintheeveryday.com
Cuisine: Soup
Serves: 4
- 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
- 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.
Recipe by Sparkles in the Everyday! at https://www.sparklesintheeveryday.com/2014/08/magnificent-minestrone-soup.html
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