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Classic Minestrone Recipe

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	olive oil water garlic leeks carrot celery bay leaf basil oregano rosemary black pepper mushrooms fresh red wine vegetable stock red cabbage tomatoes white beans green beans parmesan cheese salt

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Ingredients

1 tsp virgin olive oil

1/4 cup water

1 large onion

4 cloves garlic minced

2 leeks chopped

1 carrot chopped

2 celery stalks chopped

1 bay leaf

1 TBS dried basil

1 tsp dried oregano

1/2 tsp dried rosemary

1/4 tsp ground black pepper

3/4 pound fresh mushrooms sliced

1/2 cup dry red wine or vegetable stock

1/2 small head of red cabbage shredded

2 1/2 cups (20 oz) canned tomatoes chopped

2 cups cooked white beans

6 cups water 1 cup trimmed green beans (fresh or frozen)

salt to taste

Parmasan cheese (optional)

Directions

Heat the oil and waer in a large soup pot and saute the onion until clear.

add garlic, leeks, carrots and celery and saute until soft about 10 minutes.

Add the herbs and pepper and cook, stirring briefly

add the mushrooms

when the mushrooms are soft and have released most of their liquid about 10 minutes, add the wineor stock and boil the liquid until the liquid is reduced by half about 45 minutes.

Shred the cabbage and add to the soup along with the tomatoes and white beans

add the water and simmer until the veggies are tender

add the green beans and cook just until they turn bright green

add salt

serve with parmasean cheese (about 1 tsp per bowl)

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jenniferbyrdez 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Yep,yep, yep.

blondie80 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Mmmmm-there's nothing like a classic! This looks marvelous.. Thank you!

debwin 1 year, 7 months ago said:
It will be getting colder here in SA soon ....so I will be giving this recipe a try.

bluewaterandsand 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Fantastic!

lunasea 1 year, 7 months ago said:
I love minestrone - it is a classic and soooo delicious and comforting. Thanks for sharing your recipe, hon - and TGIF!

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lilliancooks 1 year, 4 months ago said:
This sounds sooo good!I saved this one!

lilliancooks 1 year, 2 months ago said:
This was very good! I served it with homemade foccacia bread. They were perfect together! This was my first time having purple minestrone, but it was very tasty! I made it as written except I omitted the mushrooms and rosemary.

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