Vegetable Minestrone I Made It Ii

Vegetable Minestrone

Cosmicmother 6 years ago
Vegetable Minestrone by Skruzel

I found this recipe using an ingredient search. It worked perfect since all I had for veg was zucchini and corn, and all I had for canned beans was chick peas. I've never had corn in minestrone before, and it was good!
I'm not a fan of the floating chick pea skins in soups (unless I'm pureeing it) so I soaked the chick peas in warm water and roughed them up in a colander to get as much of the papery skins off. I doubled up on the soup as well, but since I did that I didn't have any room in my crock pot for the pasta so I served it in the bowls separately.
The only thing I did differently was sauté the onion and garlic before adding it to the crock pot. And I also sautéed the zucchini before adding it as I like it crispy. (I diced all the veggies small so the kids couldn't pick anything out, lol ;)
It didn't need any salt as the canned goods and stock were plenty salty. But I did add a little kick of chili flakes when I sautéed the onion and added a pinch of Italian dried herbs to the final dish (on top of the bay leaves and basil called for).
It was great and I would certainly make it again!! :)
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mommyluvs2cook 6 years ago said:

Don't you just love it when you happen to have all the ingredients on hand for a recipe? :) I haven't had minestrone soup in forever, this looks SO GOOD Shona!!

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bakerme 6 years ago said:

Beautiful photo, Cosmicmom! We were just saying the other day that we can't wait for the weather to cool down so we can have some wintery meals like this - yum!

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LindaLMT 6 years ago said:

Awesome! Great photo and minestrone is so good, full of veggies and everything good for you.

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