Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mighty minestrone. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mighty Minestrone is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Mighty Minestrone is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook mighty minestrone using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mighty Minestrone:
- Make ready 1 onion, diced
- Take 1 carrot, diced
- Take 1 stick celery, diced
- Get 2 cloves garlic, crushed/finely chopped
- Get 1 courgette, diced
- Make ready 2 small pots, diced
- Take 2 heaped tbsp tomato puree
- Prepare 1 L veg stock (I use Kallo)
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Get 1 can borlotti beans, drained and rinsed
- Make ready 1 handful shredded cavolo nero
- Prepare 2 handfuls small pasta or broken up spaghetti
- Get Parmesan rinds or vegetarian alternative
- Make ready Extra virgin or rapeseed oil
- Prepare Salt and pepper
- Get (Optional) 1 tsp of green pesto
Instructions to make Mighty Minestrone:
- Add a lug of oil into a large pan. Add the onion, carrot and celery and soften for 5-6 minutes until translucent. Add the garlic and soften for 2 more minutes.
- Add the tomato puree to the pan, stir and cook out for 2 minutes. Add the potatoes and stock. Bring to the boil then add the courgette, borlotti beans, pasta, Parmesan rinds (or veggi alternative if using), bay leaves and seasoning.
- Simmer for around 15 mins until the potatoes and pasta are cooked. A couple of minutes from the end, add the cavolo nero and add a drop more water if you need to make it more ‘soupy’.
- Pull out the rinds and bay leaves. Serve with grated Parmesan and teaspoon of pesto on top of each bowl, if using.
- Don’t have borlotti beans? Use pinto or cannellini beans - -No Parmesan rinds? Don’t let it stop you, just save them in a bag in the fridge or freezer for next time….they keep for ages! - -No cavolo nero? Use kale as an alternative or spinach - -Feel free to add and interchange vegetables that you have or that need using up.
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