Ingredients

How to make it

  • 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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  • NPMarie 10 years ago
    Lilliancooks IMI review:
    Classic Minestrone
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    " It was good "
    lilliancooks ate it and 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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    " It was good "
    lilliancooks ate it and said...
    This sounds sooo good!I saved this one!
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    " It was excellent "
    lunasea ate it and said...
    I love minestrone - it is a classic and soooo delicious and comforting. Thanks for sharing your recipe, hon - and TGIF!

    Smiles,
    ~Vickie
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    " It was excellent "
    bluewaterandsand ate it and said...
    Fantastic!
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  • debwin 16 years ago
    It will be getting colder here in SA soon ....so I will be giving this recipe a try.
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    " It was excellent "
    blondie80 ate it and said...
    Mmmmm-there's nothing like a classic! This looks marvelous.. Thank you!
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    " It was excellent "
    jenniferbyrdez ate it and said...
    Yep,yep, yep.
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