Minestrone Soup

cooking-mama

Thanks Pink-winged I did search,but couldnt find a minestrone thread,I think il just adapt your recipe,no fresh basil(but i have dried...at least i have dried italian herbs),il add my mix instead of pasta,and wont bother with the cheese..Thankyou.

SailorSam

I get similar soup mix from Morrisons and use whatever veges are in freezer; lots of onions and tinned tomatoes but add pearl barley instead of pasta.

lucylema

I bought spaghetti yesterday and there are lots of broken bits in the wrapper. I would like a meaty tasting soup I can put these into i.e ministrone but no idea where to start - can anyone advise please?

lucy_lemon

Sometimes I think you are me, our user names are so similar!

I don't eat red meat, so not much experience with making meaty flavoured soup, but when I make minestrone I usually just saute onions and garlic, then add tinned tomatoes, some tomato puree and whatever veg I am using. I should imagine that you could add beef stock, if you wanted the taste without the actual meat, or maybe just add some leftover bits of meat? The pasta usually goes in towards the end, as otherwise it will cook too much. I hope that helps! I'm not really one for measuring things, I just chuck stuff into the pan!

vanoonoo

that sounds good lucy lemon - I would jsut add some cooked bacon to give it the minestrone feel altho the last minestrone I had at an italian was a totally veggie one and was delicious.

Billie-jo

I make a meaty soup with some skirt beef, onions, carrots, parsnip or swede and some small soup pasta.
Cut the beef into small cubes and add the onion sliced up, cook with either home made stock or stock cubes till almost soft then add the veg and cook till they are done. Add the pasta in at the end as doesnt need a lot of cooking. You can add any veg to this soup that needs using up or even some lentils pulses etc. Much like a minestrone soup but with added meat. You could use a ham shank as well in a similar way. Also a good French Onion soup could have a small amount of pasta or rice added to it for a bit more depth and dont forget there is chicken noodle soup.

goingsenile

MINESTONE SOUP
Serves 4

INGREDIENTS
2tbsp Olive oil
2 medium Onions
3 medium Carrots
2 sticks Celery
1 medium Leek
½ tsp Lazy garlic
3 pints Stock
14oz Canned chopped tomatoes
4oz shredded green cabbage
1 oz Small pasta
2tbsp tomato puree


DIRECTIONS
1. Heat oil
2. Fry onion, add carrots, celery, leek and garlic and saut! for 10 minutes
3. Add stock and tomatoes and tomato puree
4. Simmer for 30 minutes
5. Add cabbage and pasta and cook for a further 120 minutes
6. Season

Eenymeeny

goingsenile wrote: »

MINESTONE SOUP
Serves 4

INGREDIENTS
2tbsp Olive oil
2 medium Onions
3 medium Carrots
2 sticks Celery
1 medium Leek
½ tsp Lazy garlic
3 pints Stock
14oz Canned chopped tomatoes
4oz shredded green cabbage
1 oz Small pasta
2tbsp tomato puree


DIRECTIONS
1. Heat oil
2. Fry onion, add carrots, celery, leek and garlic and saut! for 10 minutes
3. Add stock and tomatoes and tomato puree
4. Simmer for 30 minutes
5. Add cabbage and pasta and cook for a further 120 minutes
6. Season

I like the sound of this recipe goingsenile, have never added cabbage to soup, can I use up frozen cabbage that lurks at the bottom of the freezer? I'm the only one who likes it! I seem to remember something about it foaming or something?
Also don't like to nitpick but is it definitely 120mins at the end? Seems a lot...