Recipe of Award-winning Minestrone Soup

Minestrone Soup.

Hello everybody, it's Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we're going to make a distinctive dish, minestrone soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Minestrone Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It's simple, it's quick, it tastes delicious. Minestrone Soup is something that I've loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook minestrone soup using 18 ingredients and 32 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:

1. {Prepare of garlic.
2. {Get of red onion.
3. {Get of carrots.
4. {Get of celery.
5. {Make ready of courgette/zucchini.
6. {Make ready of small leek.
7. {Take of large potato.
8. {Make ready of x 400g (15 oz) tin or can of cannellini beans.
9. {Prepare of higher-welfare smoked streaky bacon.
10. {Prepare of olive oil.
11. {Prepare of dried oregano.
12. {Make ready of fresh bay leaf.
13. {Take of x 400g (14-oz) tins or cans plum tomatoes.
14. {Get of organic vegetable stock.
15. {Make ready of large handful of seasonal greens, such as savoy cabbage, curly kale, chard.
16. {Take of wholemeal pasta.
17. {Make ready of fresh basil (optional).
18. {Get of Parmesan cheese.

Instructions to make Minestrone Soup:

1. Peel and finely chop the garlic..
2. Peel and finely chop the onion..
3. Trim and roughly chop the carrots..
4. Trim and roughly chop the celery..
5. Trim and roughly chop the courgette/zucchini..
6. Then add the vegetables to a large bowl..
7. Cut the ends off the leeks, quarter them lengthways..
8. Wash them under running water....
9. Then cut into 1cm slices. Add to the bowl..
10. Scrub and dice the potato..
11. Drain the cannellini beans, then set aside..
12. Finely slice the bacon..
13. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add the bacon....
14. And fry gently for 2 minutes, or until golden..
15. Add the garlic, onion, carrots, celery, courgette/zucchini, and leek..
16. Add oregano and bay..
17. Cook slowly for about 15 minutes, or until the vegetables have softened, stirring occasionally..
18. Add the potato, cannellini beans and plum tomatoes.....
19. Then pour in the vegetable stock..
20. Stir well, breaking up the tomatoes with the back of a spoon..
21. Cover with a lid and bring everything slowly to the boil, then simmer for about 30 minutes, or until the potato is cooked through. Meanwhile....
22. Remove and discard any tough stalks bits from the greens....
23. Then roughly chop..
24. Using a rolling pin, bash the pasta into pieces while it’s still in the packet or wrap in a clean tea towel..
25. .
26. To check the potato is cooked, pierce a chunk of it with a sharp knife – if it pierces easily, it’s done..
27. Add the greens and pasta to the pan, and cook for a further 10 minutes, or until the pasta is al dente..
28. This translates as ‘to the tooth’ and means that it should be soft enough to eat, but still have a bit of a bite and firmness to it..
29. Try some just before the time is up to make sure you cook it perfectly..
30. Add a splash more stock or water to loosen, if needed..
31. Pick over the basil leaves (if using) and stir through..
32. Season to taste with sea salt and black pepper, then serve with a grating of Parmesan and a slice of wholemeal bread, if you like..

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