Italian · serves 2
Minestrone
Whatever vegetables are dying in the drawer, plus beans and pasta. One pot.
Ingredients
- 1 onion, 2 carrots, 2 celery sticks, diced
- 3 cups other vegetables (beans, courgette, potato, cabbage)
- 1 can white beans or rajma
- 1 can tomatoes
- 1 cup small pasta
- 6 garlic cloves
- 6 cups stock
- Parmesan rind
- Basil or parsley
- Olive oil
Method
- Onion, carrot and celery in olive oil for 10 minutes on low. Salt them early so they sweat rather than fry.
- Garlic, then the harder vegetables, 5 minutes.
- Tomatoes, stock, beans and the parmesan rind. Simmer 20 minutes.
- Softer vegetables and pasta in for the last 10 minutes.
- Fish the rind out. It should be thick — a soup you eat with a fork.
- Olive oil, grated cheese, torn basil. Better the next day.