Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mighty minestrone. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mighty Minestrone is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Mighty Minestrone is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have mighty minestrone using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mighty Minestrone:

1. Take onion, diced
2. Make ready carrot, diced
3. Get celery, diced
4. Prepare garlic, crushed/finely chopped
5. Make ready courgette, diced
6. Take small pots, diced
7. Make ready heaped tbsp tomato puree
8. Prepare veg stock (I use Kallo)
9. Get bay leaves
10. Prepare borlotti beans, drained and rinsed
11. Take shredded cavolo nero
12. Get small pasta or broken up spaghetti
13. Get Parmesan rinds or vegetarian alternative
14. Prepare Extra virgin or rapeseed oil
15. Get Salt and pepper
16. Prepare (Optional) 1 tsp of green pesto

Instructions to make Mighty Minestrone:

1. Add a lug of oil into a large pan. Add the onion, carrot and celery and soften for 5-6 minutes until translucent. Add the garlic and soften for 2 more minutes.
2. Add the tomato puree to the pan, stir and cook out for 2 minutes. Add the potatoes and stock. Bring to the boil then add the courgette, borlotti beans, pasta, Parmesan rinds (or veggi alternative if using), bay leaves and seasoning.
3. Simmer for around 15 mins until the potatoes and pasta are cooked. A couple of minutes from the end, add the cavolo nero and add a drop more water if you need to make it more ‘soupy’.
4. Pull out the rinds and bay leaves. Serve with grated Parmesan and teaspoon of pesto on top of each bowl, if using.
5. Don’t have borlotti beans? Use pinto or cannellini beans - -No Parmesan rinds? Don’t let it stop you, just save them in a bag in the fridge or freezer for next time….they keep for ages! - -No cavolo nero? Use kale as an alternative or spinach - -Feel free to add and interchange vegetables that you have or that need using up.

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