MINESTRONE
MINESTRONE

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, minestrone. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

MINESTRONE is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. MINESTRONE is something that I have loved my entire life.

In a stockpot, saute the onions, celery and parsley in oil until tender. Stir in the broth, tomatoes, tomato sauce, cabbage, carrots, basil, salt and pepper. I created this soup after becoming tired of the excess salt and lack of veggies in canned minestrone.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook minestrone using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make MINESTRONE:
  1. Make ready liquids
  2. Get V-8 juice
  3. Take 10.5 oz. beef consomme'
  4. Take water
  5. Get spices
  6. Get sea salt
  7. Prepare course black pepper
  8. Get italian seasoning
  9. Make ready crushed red pepper
  10. Prepare minced garlic
  11. Make ready canned items
  12. Get 15 oz. kidney beans
  13. Prepare 15 oz. green beans
  14. Get 15 oz. stewed tomatoes
  15. Prepare fresh vegetables
  16. Take sliced zucchini
  17. Get thinly sliced carrots
  18. Get thinly sliced celery
  19. Take shredded cabbage
  20. Prepare diced onion
  21. Prepare uncooked pasta
  22. Get small shell pasta
  23. Make ready meat
  24. Get ground pork sausage

I nixed the potatoes, added extra celery, zuchini, green beans and carrots. Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Minestrone typically includes lots of leafy greens, other veggies, and beans. You're only limited by the contents of your refrigerator and pantry.

Instructions to make MINESTRONE:
  1. Using a LARGE crockpot, place every thing BUT the uncooked pasta in the crockpot in the order of listed ingredients.
  2. After everything but the pasta is in the crockpot, cook for 4 hours on crockpot "high" setting.
  3. Prepare water in a sauce pan for boiling pasta. Add a tablespoon of olive oil and a pinch os salt to the water.
  4. When water comes to a boil, drop pasta in and boil for 1 minute less than the "al dente" instructions on the package.
  5. When pasta is done, rinse thoroughly through a strainer with COLD water and set it aside.
  6. When soup has cooked for the 4 hours, add the cooked pasta quickly, and cook on crockpot high setting for another 1/2 hour.
  7. At the end of cooking time, keep soup on crockpot "warm" setting until ready to serve. (Serve immediately when possible.)
  8. Serve with garlic chessy bread.

This beloved Italian soup isn't just hearty and healthy – it's really flexible. Minestrone typically includes lots of leafy greens, other veggies, and beans. Minestrone is a thick, mixed vegetable soup using almost any combination of seasonal vegetables. Short cuts of pasta or rice may also be added. Essentially, minestrone is a thick, hearty variety of vegetable soup, thanks to the addition of beans and sometimes pasta or rice.

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