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Minestrone

Name: Minestrone
Total time: 64 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 3 tbsp olive oil; 1 onion; 2 carrots; 2 celery sticks; 1 courgette; 150g savoy cabbage; 200g potatoes; 200g tinned tomatoes; 1 tin tinned borlotti beans; 70g spaghetti (snapped into short lengths); 1200ml vegetable stock; 30g pecorino romano; 1 small handful basil; to taste salt and pepper

Also known as minestrone soup · zuppa di verdure · minnestrone · italian vegetable soup

A loaded soup of vegetables, beans and small pasta, parmesan dusted over. Never the same twice — the garden decides.

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Typical serving

320 kcal

usually 250–410 kcal

Typical nutrition for one serving
Protein	12 g
Carbs	46 g
Fat	10 g

Reference figures for a dish as it is commonly cooked — never a measurement of your plate. The range is the honest part: two kitchens make this differently. In the app, a photograph replaces the guess.

Before you start

a big pot
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1h 4mstart to finish

Ingredients

Serves 4 · dimmer marks are storecupboard

3 tbspolive oil
1onion
2carrots
2celery sticks
1courgette
150gsavoy cabbage
200gpotatoes
200gtinned tomatoes
1 tintinned borlotti beans
70gspaghetti — snapped into short lengths
1200mlvegetable stock
30gpecorino romano
1 small handfulbasil
to tastesalt and pepper

Method

5 steps

chop · 12m
Onion, carrot and celery diced small and even. Everything else into pieces a spoon can manage in one go.
fry · 12m
The soffritto into the oil over a low heat for a full ten minutes, until the onion is soft and sweet. Hurried, this leaves you with vegetables boiled in water, and nothing later in the pot puts that back.
simmer · 25m walk away
Potatoes, tomatoes and stock in, and left at a bare bubble with the lid ajar.
simmer · 12m
Courgette, cabbage and the drained beans in for the last stretch, and the snapped spaghetti for whatever time the packet claims.
finish · 3m
Off the heat. Basil, grated pecorino, black pepper, and a last spoon of raw oil into each bowl — raw oil at the end is not the same thing as the oil it was cooked in.

Worth knowing

Minestrone has no recipe, only a principle: whatever the season yields, cut small and simmered together. The soup is a calendar.

A bowl routinely carries five or more vegetables plus beans — fibre and variety in one ladle.

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