It's Nearly Bound Minestrone

Ingredients:

2-3 stalks celery (with leaves), sliced
two cloves garlic, sliced
2-3 carrots, sliced into coins
1 medium purple-top turnip, cubed
two zucchini, cubed
1 large Russet potato, cubed
1 loving cup diced greenish beans (about 1/3 lb)
fifteen oz tin diced burn downwards roasted tomatoes
fifteen oz tin cannellini beans, drained
8 cups chicken or vegetable stock
salt
freshly soil dark pepper
3-4 tablespoons pesto (homemade or jarred)
1 loving cup cooked ditalini pasta*
parmesan for sprinkling

Directions:

In a large, heavy-bottomed pot, saute the celery, garlic, onions, carrots, turnip, zucchini too spud until the onion is translucent. Add the tomatoes, greenish beans, beans, too stock. Simmer for 45 minutes or until the vegetables are tender. Add common salt too pepper. Stir inwards pesto. Divide into bowls, stir inwards a few tablespoons of noodles too transcend amongst a sprinkle of parmesan.


*I laid upwards the pasta separately too shop whatsoever leftovers inwards split upwards containers. If stored together, the pasta absorbs all the broth overnight too makes for a soggy mess. If you lot are planning to swallow all of the soup at once, add together the noodles to the pot, non each bowl.

My thoughts:

I've e'er liked minestrone soup. We ate a lot of recreated that soup 8 years agone too haven't persuasion of making minestrone myself since.

Then I was reading an Italian cookbook too they had a recipe for a vegetable soup amongst pesto swirled in. It seemed a lot lighter too less love apple tree heavy too therefore I persuasion I'd assay to brand my ain spin on minestrone using what's inwards flavour too available now.

It's that fourth dimension inwards wintertime when in that place isn't much inwards flavour exactly you lot experience similar something lighter too to a greater extent than vegetable packed. Turnips are e'er dandy this fourth dimension of year, every bit are carrots too celery. Zucchini is i of those vegetables that I experience similar are fine to swallow inwards the wintertime fifty-fifty though they aren't inwards season. Unless it is some heirloom variety, the wintertime supermarket conventional zukes gustatory modality close the same every bit the homegrown. Tomatoes aren't inwards flavour exactly burn downwards roasted canned ones add together a ton of flavor. The pesto was an amazing shortcut to a ton of flavor inwards the soup. Why accept I never done that before? What else tin I position pesto in? I had this soup for iii days inwards a row happily!

Serving idea: I had some leftover pesto too therefore nosotros mashed into 1/4 loving cup softened butter too ton of chopped garlic too some parmesan too spread it on crusty Italian bread to brand pesto garlic bread. It solely took close 10 minutes.