Big minestrone

Big minestrone

Category: First meal

Kitchen: italian

Ingredients
leek	1 PC.
bulb onions	1/2 pcs.
carrot	2 pcs.
petiolate celery (stem)	1 PC.
potatoes	1 PC.
fresh herbs (small bunch)	1 PC.
white cabbage (leaves)	3 pcs.
green pea	100 g
borlotti beans	100 g
zucchini	2 pcs.
pumpkin	250 g
fresh tomatoes	2 pcs.
tomato paste	1 tbsp. l.
orzo pasta or rice	2-3 st. l.
olive or vegetable oil	3 tbsp. l.
salt	taste
ground black pepper	taste
parmesan cheese	taste
water or broth

Cooking method

• Prepare all vegetables and herbs before starting the soup. Wash thoroughly, peel and cut into medium cubes all food except cabbage - cut cabbage into strips. Borlotti beans also need to be soaked in water for at least 6 hours; you can use canned beans or asparagus beans to speed up the cooking time.
• Preheat the skillet you will be using to make minestrone with 2 tbsp. l. oil and sauté the onions, add celery, carrots, tomato paste and stir-fry the vegetables while stirring.
• Add pumpkin, zucchini, potatoes, green peas, and prepared beans. Next add cabbage leaves, herbs and tomatoes. Pour hot boiled water into a pan for vegetables so that all vegetables are covered with water, cover and cook for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, add the pre-washed orzo or rice and continue cooking, stirring occasionally, for about 40 minutes. You can change the amount of water added according to your taste if you prefer a thicker or less thick minestrone.
• Season the soup with salt and serve, adding ground black pepper, a few drops of olive oil and grated Parmesan cheese to a plate.

Note

According to the recipe of Chiara Muzy (Italy). Thanks to the author!
Gran minestrone or Big minestrone, because in addition to a large number of vegetables, the soup is enriched with orzo pasta, which, in conjunction with potatoes, forms a creamy thickness and makes the taste of minestrone more solid and rich.
Soup is also tasty with the addition of beetroot chard, while the total amount of greens added to the soup can be reduced.

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Oh yummy probably !!!! Our family is lovers of Italian cuisine!
Ilona will need to be cooked

[Ilona]

Ilona, which soup is interesting, will need to be prepared with all the ingredients for the recipe.
Usually I often cook what is in the garden, but this is a lot of things.
I don't know what kind of orzo pasta

[Ilona]

Ilona, thanks for such a good soup, will have to be done.

marika33Marina, literally today saw Orzo's pasta in our Lenta and ptitim (searched for a long time) for Mistral. I have not seen it in chain stores before.


In the same pack and Orzo (suddenly help with the search).

[Kokoschka]

Kokoschka, marika33, YarikThank you for your interest in the recipe!

will need to be prepared with all the ingredients for the recipe.

I support, indeed, a very good combination of ingredients, but substitutions are quite possible, as, for example, fresh celery can be replaced with 1/2 tsp. dry celery, just a little mushroom notes will appear in the aroma and taste of the finished soup, and replace the white cabbage with Chinese cabbage. The option with the addition of Swiss chard beetroot, Chinese cabbage and asparagus beans also tastes quite good, and for lovers of meat dishes, the soup can be prepared with very weak (not concentrated or diluted) beef broth.

I don't know what kind of orzo pasta

Marina, orzo is a traditional Italian fine pasta that looks like barley or rice, but it is pasta. Mainly made from durum flour, there is also a paste made from whole grain flour.The names may vary depending on the manufacturer, for example, the Mistral on the packaging says "Rizoni Pasta". And the cooking time can also be specified differently, adjust the recipe in accordance with the recommendations of the pasta manufacturer. When cooking with borlotti beans, simply add the pasta a little later than the recipe says if the time to prepare the pasta itself is less than the total soup time. Yes, and if there is no desire to add orzo, however, there are Italians who do not like this type of pasta, you can always replace it with rice, it will also be no less tasty. I mainly cook soup with rice and asparagus beans, reducing the cooking time after adding rice to 20-25 minutes.

In the same pack and Orzo (suddenly help with the search).

thanks for the information!
Yaroslavna, and you were looking for a particular dish?

No, not for a specific, somehow we ate pizza in a cafe, they have a beautiful menu with photographs of dishes, I saw it and she sunk into my soul)))

I saw and she sunk into my soul)))

clear.

[Ilona]

As always, almost according to the recipe))) I had a frozen mixture of 8 vegetables, there was almost everything I needed, I didn't have a pumpkin, I added bell pepper instead of orzo, ptitim))) well, and in beef broth, so no cheese. Such a sincere minestrone turned out!
Ilona, thanks again



PS And how I liked the soup in the soup, words cannot convey))) such smooth little balls, very pleasant in the mouth)))

[Yaroslavna]

Yaroslavna, to your health! The soup looks very appetizing, beauty. Thanks for your feedback!

And how I liked ptitim in the soup, words cannot convey)))

so now I am interested in ptitim. Thanks for the story .