Tasty Minestrone Soup recipe. Homemade for cold days with bacon and pasta pieces served with some cut pieces of bread or fresh buns.
Tasty Minestrone Soup
A homemade tasty minestrone soup recipe with fresh veggies, bacon and broken pasta. The most delicious soup to eat for a warm meal, lunch or dinner. The soup may be made ahead and stored for further meals in a freezer. It is a no bake recipe made on the stove top.
What is the secret to making good soup?
Some tips for succesful soup making.
- Using a thick bottomed sturdy heavy pot.
- Sauté the aromatics.
- Use a good broth for starters.
- Cutting the veggies to the correct sizes.
- Adding the veggies in stages.
- Keeping the liquid to simmer.
- Season just before serving.
Why is my minestrone soup bland?
To make your vegetables soup not bland use some herbs and spices. First use some vegetable broth and then add the spices and herbs to taste.
How do you add richness to vegetable soup?
You can add a small amount of butter to your broth or sauce to add richness in your soup. It will soften any harsh flavors and round out the other flavors that is already there.
Does cooking soup longer make it taste better?
Just know the longer you cook it, the more flavor that will come out of the food and into the soup. Think of marinara sauce. Though it’s not a soup, it’s the same concept. Allowing it to cook for awhile marries all the flavors together
Ingredients
View your exact ingredients according to the recipe attached. Vegetables and herbs and spices with broken pasta.
How to
Cut up the ingredients and chop them to serving size. Keep the leaves to add later.
You may use red or green cabbage or kale.
Sauté bacon and onion and garlic in a pan with a little olive oil. Bacon is a important ingredient in this soup and makes things so much tastier.
Adding all the other ingredients according to the recipe below. Simmering lastly with some broken pieces of pasta.
Buns or bread slices cut and buttered for the side dish and dipping in the soup is a preference.
(get the buns recipe on the highlighted link)
You could also add some cut pieces of bread to the soup or if you have croutons add them.
A pot of soup that has cooked with the beans and pasta bits. Ready to serve up in a soup bowl.
Add any other ingredients or vegetables you love as well. The basic ingredients is on the recipe.
Cut pieces of bread for the soup side dish. Serve up the soup in a bowl and enjoy hot.
The recipe below for tasty minestrone soup to save or download. A favorite no bake or stove top recipe.
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PrintTasty Minestrone Soup
Tasty Minestrone Soup recipe. Homemade for cold days with bacon and pasta pieces served with some cut pieces of bread or fresh buns.
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 30 min
- Total Time: 45 min
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: soups meals,
- Method: Stove top No Bake
- Cuisine: South african
Ingredients
- 250 g of bacon (chopped into pieces)
- 1 onion
- 2 large carrots
- 2 celery
- 1/2 cabbage or bunch of kale
- Garlic cloves (or flakes)
- Vegetable stock
- A tin of tomatos
- 1 cup of water
- Tin of butter beans
- Small broken pieces of pasta.
Instructions
- In a pot sauté chopped bacon and onion, as well as garlic cloves in a little oil.
- Then add the chopped carrots and celery to a pot with a cup of water.
- Cut stems off of the cabbage or kale and keep leaves for later. Adding in the to the pot.
- Open a tin of tomatoes and add the stock. (or use stock made and kept.)
- Add all of these to the pot to bring to boil. Adding butter beans and warm up and mix well. Can add leaves as well.
- Close the lid and simmer for a while stirring now and again.
- Next you add broken pieces of pasta or smash some add to the mix,
- Leave to simmer for 10 – 15 minutes till pasta is cooked.
- Cut open fresh buns or cut slices of bread in 1/3 rds. if you prefer butter them.
- Sometimes men love to add some soy sauce or Worcestershire sauce. To hotten it up.
- Serve hot in a soup bowl and add the bread or buns to a side plate. Break pieces of bread in the soup and enjoy. (you could make croutons with the cut pieces of bread.)
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