Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Quick Minestrone Soup
by Marcus Alvarez
Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, minestrone soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Minestrone Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Minestrone Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have minestrone soup using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
Make ready 2 tbsp. olive oil
Take 1 tbsp. unsalted butter
Take 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
Prepare 2 stalks celery, diced
Make ready 1/2 yellow onion, diced
Prepare 4 cloves garlic, minced
Make ready 1/4 cup (2 oz.) tomato paste
Take 1/2 tsp. each oregano, dried basil
Get 1/4 tsp. ground thyme
Make ready 1 can (28 oz.) fire roasted crushed tomatoes
Get 4 cups unsalted vegetable broth
Get 2 bay leaves
Prepare 3/4 tsp. salt
Get 1/4 tsp. pepper
Prepare 2 small potatoes, scrubbed and diced
Make ready 1 zucchini, diced
Get 1 yellow squash, diced
Take 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
Prepare 1 cup ditalini pasta (or other small shape)
Prepare 2 heaping cups spinach, roughly chopped
Steps to make Minestrone Soup:
In a large pot over medium heat, add the olive oil and the butter. Once it's hot and the butter has melted, stir in the onions, celery and carrot with a big pinch of salt. Cook, stirring occasionally until they have begun to soften up, about 3-5 minutes. Then stir in the tomato paste, garlic, oregano, thyme and basil. Cook about 2-3 minutes more, stirring pretty often.
Pour a bit of the broth in and deglaze the pan. Then the rest with the crushed tomatoes and bay leaves. Increase the heat to med-high and let this come up to a simmer. Once its simmering, stir in the beans, potatoes, zucchini and yellow squash along with the salt and pepper. Let this all simmer together until the veggies are all tender. Last, take out the bay leaves and stir in the chopped spinach and let it wilt down. Taste and add more salt, pepper, etc until you're happy with the flavor.
While the soup is coming to a simmer, heat a separate pot of salted water over high heat. Once its boiling, cook the ditalini pasta according to package directions, then drain and set it aside until the soup is done.
To serve, you can stir the cooked pasta into the soup, or if you're going to have a lot of leftovers, you can just keep them separate and add the pasta to individual bowls and pour the soup over top of it… that way the pasta won't absorb all the liquid.
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