Recipe of Perfect Not-exactly Minestrone Soup

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, not-exactly minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Not-exactly Minestrone Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Not-exactly Minestrone Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook not-exactly minestrone soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Not-exactly Minestrone Soup:

1. Make ready 1 tbsp Oil
2. Take 1 onion, chopped
3. Prepare 4 cloves garlic, chopped
4. Make ready 2 tbsp tomato purée
5. Make ready 1 leek, sliced
6. Take 3 carrots, diced
7. Prepare 1 pepper, deseeded and diced
8. Get 100 g chestnut mushrooms, chopped
9. Prepare A few cherry tomatoes, halved
10. Take 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
11. Take 2 litres vegetable stock. “Marigold” or stock cubes fine
12. Get Handful dried pasta. I’ve used Trofie but otherwise break large types of pasta into pieces
13. Make ready 400 g tin cannelloni beans, drained
14. Make ready 1/4 cabbage in strips. The core stalk has also been used, diced
15. Prepare 1 tsp each dried oregano and thyme
16. Get 1/2 tsp dried basil
17. Make ready Grated Parmesan cheese

Steps to make Not-exactly Minestrone Soup:

1. Heat the oil in a stock pot or large saucepan. Gently fry the onion for 3 minutes, only stirring to avoid sticking.
2. Add the garlic and fry for a further minute. Then stir in the tomato purée, pepper, mushrooms and the leek and continue to fry gently for another 2 minutes.
3. Stir in the carrots and continue gently frying for 2 minutes or until all the vegetables are nicely softened but not browned. Add the cherry tomatoes and give it all another gentle stir.
4. Add the tinned tomatoes and the stock. Gently but throughly stir, add the oregano, thyme and basil, bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer, put a lid on and cook for 15 minutes.
5. Add the beans and the pasta, stir and continue to cook until the pasta is cooked, around 8-12 minutes.
6. Stir in the cabbage and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Then season to taste and serve piping hot, with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese.

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