Recipe: Perfect Minestrone soup with quinoa

Minestrone soup with quinoa. Finding fresh green beans at my grocery store can be hit or miss, so I used canned to make this minestrone soup happen. Traditional minestrone soup includes pasta noodles, but I replaced the noodles with quinoa in order to keep the soup gluten-free. You can easily re-tradition this recipe by adding noodles and skipping the quinoa.

Gluten-free minestrone soup recipes are delicious and great part of our easy vegan recipes. Add tomatoes, cannellini and red kidney beans, quinoa, vegetable stock and water to the pot and bring to the boil. This Winter Minestrone Soup is packed with seasonal root vegetables like potatoes, parsnips, cabbage, and kale, as well as healthy quinoa and beans. You can have Minestrone soup with quinoa using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Minestrone soup with quinoa

1. You need 2 tbsp of olive oil.
2. It's 1 of small chopped onion.
3. Prepare 1 of carrot chopped.
4. You need 1/4 of chopped capsicum.
5. Prepare 1 of chopped tomatoes.
6. It's 4 cup of vegetable stock.
7. You need 1/3 cup of quinoa.
8. It's 1/2 tsp of Italian seasoning.
9. It's to taste of Salt.
10. You need 1/2 cup of black beans.
11. It's 1 Stick of green onion.

Topped with plenty of extra-virgin olive oil and parmesan cheese, it's a delicious, hearty recipe to keep you warm this winter! Stovetop, Slow Cooker, and Instant Pot friendly. Also, I added quinoa rather than pasta to this minestrone recipe. It stays gluten-free, adds protein, and is totally delicious that way!

Minestrone soup with quinoa step by step

1. Put oil in a pan and heat it up.
2. Add chopped onions +carrots +1/4 chopped capsicum fry it for couple minutes.
3. Add chopped tomatoes to it and mix it well and let it cook for few minutes add 4 cup vegetable stock let it comes to a boil and keep stirring in between.
4. Once it comes to a boil add 1/3 cup uncooked and washed quinoa to it let it simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Add Italian seasoning and salt as per test add boiled black beans 1/2 cup and let it simmer for couple of minutes.
6. In the and add a stick of green onion and simmer it some more add some more stock or water depending on how thick you want the soup to be.
7. Bring to boil and there you go you can add some pasta if you want.
8. Enjoy your soup in winter days.

A complete win-win in my book! I also prefer adding kale to this minestrone over spinach. This is my personal opinion, but I feel kale holds up better in a soup even when eating it for leftovers. I listed the recipe exactly as the magazine had it, however when I made it I did use canned tomatoes and low sodium chicken broth instead of plum tomatoes and water. I aslo was not able to find fennel at my grocery store, so I used celery and it still came out tasty.