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- Cuisine: Italian
- Serves 10
Looking for a truly hearty meal? You might also like our minestrone soup recipe. Or, take a look at our collection of culturally diverse soup recipes.
Ingredients
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil2 onions, diced
8 cloves of garlic, each cut into 3-4 pieces
1 sliced celery heart (including the tender light-green leaves)
2 large or 4-5 smaller carrots, peeled and chopped into bite-sized pieces
2 cups Savoy cabbage, chopped into bite-sized pieces
2 bay leaves
1 cup fresh flageolet beans, or equivalent other fresh or cooked beans
350g of peeled and diced waxy potatoes
200g peeled Italian tomatoes, mashed
150g spinach, roughly chopped
1 cup parsley, roughly chopped
100g of carnaroli rice
Salt and pepper
60g parmesan rind, cut into 1cm cubes
Freshly grated parmesan
Preparation
Heat the olive oil in a heavy bottom soup pot. Add the diced onions, garlic, celery heart, carrots, cabbage and bay leaves. Lightly fry the vegetables for 2-3 minutes making sure they don’t colour.Add the beans, potatoes and tomatoes and stir. Cover the ingredients with water. Once the soup comes back to the boil add the rice and turn down to a simmer. Add a couple of good pinches of salt and stir. Keep simmering for 20-25 minutes until the rice has cooked.
Add the spinach, parsley and parmesan rinds and simmer for another 5 minutes. Turn off the heat, correct seasoning with salt and freshly ground pepper and serve with plenty of grated Parmesan and crusty bread. It’s much better the day after.
If you enjoyed this Minestrone recipe then browse more Italian recipes, soup recipes, stew recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.
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Comments (10)
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04 Jun 2011 12:46 AEST
Velvet
Central Vic
Printing recipe
Maecus, if you go to the top of the page, and click 'print' (next to the 'email to a friend'), the recipe will appear in a separate window excluding comments, etc. YOu should then be able to save as an .xps, .pdf, etc.
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03 Jun 2011 12:50 AEST
ili
31 Jul 2010 04:28 AEST
gianni
Dalton
not a minestrone
My Italian family has been making minestrone for ages. Our recipe is the best. This is a small variation and it shouldn't be called minestrone. We use many more vegetables and switch gas off and let the pot rest to finish the cooking to avoid burning vitamins with the hot stove.
10 Jun 2010 12:03 AEST
Kaz
Surfers Paradise
03 Jun 2010 01:08 AEST
Lara
Hawthorn
03 Jun 2010 01:06 AEST
Lara
Hawthorn
No Minestrone quite like it!
I was suspicious of all the leafy things and rice in minestrone - I used to cook them thick and brothy with pasta and now I know what I've been missing. The most delicate balance of flavours - go spend on carnaroli rice, it's worth it!
31 May 2010 08:20 AEST
maecus
31 May 2010 01:45 AEST
Thea Matto
Modbury
Yum
We cooked the soup for the family and they loved it.
We used stock instead of water and as we did not know what carnaroli rice was we used risoni.
When the grandchildren ask for a second plate , you know it is a winner.
P.S if anyone out there know what carnaroli rice is please let me know as I could not find it.
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