I told my friend how much I love soup and she shared with me her grandmother's minestrone soup recipe!! I did make some modifications to it as I did not want to include (or simply didn't have) some of the ingredients in the original recipe, but what I ended up with was to die for!!
Ingredients:
- 2 onions, diced
- 1/2 cup lentil beans
- 1 cup pinto beans
- 1 cup red kidney beans
- 1-2T minced garlic
- 3 tablespoons chicken bullion
- 5-6 celery stalks
- 4 carrots
- 3 zucchinis
- 3 small red potatoes
- Handful of favorite pasta (I used classic ditalini!)
- In a large pot, caramelize the onions. Takes about 20+ minutes on medium heat. Once they have a deep color, add the garlic, and all the beans. Fill the pot 3/4 of the way with water and add the chicken bullion seasoning. Can also use broth instead of water/bullion. Simmer for 2 hours until the beans are almost completely tender.
- Then add the celery, carrots, zucchini, and potatoes. Cook 20 minutes. (I added my veggies before the 2 hour simmer was up because I like them very soft!)
- After 20 minutes, add pasta and cook until the pasta is cooked (about 10 minutes).
- Enjoy!
The original recipe called for adding swiss chard, homemade pesto, and parmesan cheese as well, but I opted not to add those (chard is added with the pasta, everything else at the end).
It made about fourteen 1 cup servings - meaning plenty to freeze and eat at a later date! Yum!!
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