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Finding yourself with leftover vegetables? Try this easy and healthy one pot Minestrone Soup full of classic Italian flavours! #minestronesoup #minestrone #vegansoup #veganrecipes #souprecipe #vegetables #onepotmeal | Recipe on thecookandhim.com

Easy Minestrone Soup Recipe

Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 30 mins | Total: 45 mins | Quantity: 4 generous portions

Ingredients

  • Drizzle of oil
  • 1 red onion – peeled and finely diced
  • 2 sticks celery – finely diced
  • 2 carrots – peeled and roughly diced
  • 3 large cloves garlic – peeled and crushed
  • 1 small or 1/2 large courgette – roughly diced
  • 2 sprigs fresh rosemary – needles only or 1/2 tsp dried rosemary
  • 2 sprigs fresh thyme – leaves only or 1/2 tsp dried thyme
  • 2 cups (500ml) passata
  • 2 cups (500ml) vegetable stock
  • 2 tblsp tomato puree
  • 1 + 1/2 cups (100g) pasta (see note)
  • 1 + 1/2 cups (400g can) cooked kidney beans
  • handful of green beans – ends trimmed and beans cut in half
  • 1-2 tsp sugar
  • Salt and pepper

Large saucepan

Instructions

  1. Put a drizzle of oil to a large saucepan and add the onion, celery, carrots and garlic and saute for 5 minutes, stirring frequently
  2. Add the courgette and herbs and saute for another 5 minutes
  3. Stir in the passata, vegetable stock and tomato puree then bubble for 10-15 minutes until the vegetables are softened - you don't want them still to be crunchy but you do want a little bit of bite to them (al dente)
  4. Add the pasta, kidney beans and green beans, stir and simmer for 10 minutes until the pasta is just cooked
  5. Taste and add sugar, salt and pepper
  6. Serve immediately or cool and chill or freeze

Notes

  • For the pasta I used fusilli twists but use whatever shapes you have
  • Don't have the same specific veg but have stuff that needs using up? You can swap/add almost anything - replace the carrots with any root veg, the courgette for aubergine, the onions for shallots, the kidney beans for cannelini or haricot beans and so on. Add potatoes if they need using, stir in some spinach right before serving and vary the herbs if you need to!

Recipe by The Cook & Him at https://thecookandhim.com/recipes/easy-minestrone-soup-recipe/