How to Make Perfect Very Filling Minestrone

Very Filling Minestrone. In a large saucepan, saute the carrots, celery and onion in oil and butter until tender. Stir in the broth, tomato sauce, beans, chickpeas, tomatoes, cabbage, basil, parsley, oregano and pepper. This famous Italian soup has been much imitated around the world with very different results.

I created this soup after becoming tired of the excess salt and lack of veggies in canned minestrone. I recalled a great bowl of minestrone that was overflowing with rich vegetables at the 'Sheepherder's Inn' in Sacramento, California. Great with a hearty bread, romaine salad and a nice Merlot! You can cook Very Filling Minestrone using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Very Filling Minestrone

1. You need 1 large of Onion.
2. You need 2 medium of Potatoes.
3. It's 1/3 of to 1/2 Carrot.
4. Prepare 1 of as much (to taste) Vegetables (to taste).
5. It's 1 of Bacon (block bacon if possible).
6. It's 2 tbsp of Olive oil.
7. It's 1 of Salt and pepper.
8. You need 1 1/2 of to 2 teaspoons Grated garlic.
9. Prepare 1 liter of Water.
10. Prepare 1 of ☆Bay leaf.
11. Prepare 2 of ☆Soup stock cubes.
12. You need 1 tsp of ☆Salt.
13. You need 1 can of ★Tomato puree (or tomato sauce).
14. Prepare 3 tbsp of ★Tomato ketchup.
15. You need 1 tbsp of ★Okonomiyaki sauce.

Olive Garden's Minestrone soup is one of their staples and it's so delicious. This soup is full of veggies like carrots, onions, celery, zucchini and tomatoes and even a little pasta! This minestrone soup recipe is very filling because it's so packed with pretty much every vegetable you can think of! I might even add… Recipe Notes.

Very Filling Minestrone instructions

1. Cut the vegetables into small dices. Spring cabbage is nice in the spring..
2. Add the garlic to a generous amount of olive oil. Start sautéing the vegetables, starting with the harder ones and adding the softer ones later..
3. Season the vegetables properly with salt and pepper at this stage!.
4. When the vegetables are more or less cooked...add enough water to cover as well as the ☆ ingredients, and simmer!.
5. Simmer for a while, skim off any scum. Add the ★ ingredents and keep simmering over low heat. (About 30 minutes.).
6. When the vegetables are tender, the soup is done!! It has lots of vegetables, so the soup alone will fill you up..
7. We enjoyed the soup as 'soup pasta' the next day. Top with cheese of your choice!.

To make vegan: simply leave the cheese off the top or use your favorite vegan parmesan. This Minestrone Soup is very easy to prepare, very filling, healthy and most of all budget friendly. Who wouldn't love this on a cold rainy or winter days? This is so far one of the most flexible soup I've ever made, it's almost like a no recipe soup. Minestrone Soup has fast become one of my all time favorite soups now.