Italian Minestrone Soup with Pesto

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Fill Your Cart With Color today! Italian Minestrone Soup with Pesto combines lots of veggies, white beans, and orecchiette pasta with a bold tomato broth and a touch of pesto. This flavorful soup will warm your belly and get you coming back for seconds! While food is my love language, soup is my cool-weather love language if that's a thing.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have italian minestrone soup with pesto using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Italian Minestrone Soup with Pesto:
  1. Get Base Veggies – Onion, garlic, carrots, celery, cabbage slaw (or
  2. Prepare can Other Veggies – Sweet Potato, yellow potatoes, zucchini. You
  3. Prepare Seasonings – Kosher salt, freshly ground black pepper, Italian S
  4. Get Tomatoes – Diced (fire-roasted) tomatoes and tomato paste
  5. Make ready Broth – Lower-sodium chicken broth
  6. Make ready Pesto
  7. Make ready Pasta
  8. Prepare Parmesan

This is an easy minestrone soup to make with whatever vegetables you happen to have! I love to add a dollop of pesto to enrich the flavour. Serve with French bread and coarsely grated Parmesan cheese. When ready to serve the soup, combine the basil and pine nuts with a pinch of salt in a food processor.

Instructions to make Italian Minestrone Soup with Pesto:
  1. Sauté veggies. In a medium to large stock pot, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add all the veggies (except the spinach) to the pot – the onion, carrots, celery, garlic, cabbage mix, sweet potatoes, yellow potatoes, and zucchini. Add seasonings – salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, and onion powder – and stir. Cook for 7-8 minutes, or until veggies become fragrant and start to soften.
  2. Add broth ingredients. Then add the diced tomatoes, tomato pasta, chicken broth, white beans, parmesan rind, and bay leaves. Bring to a bubbling simmer, and cook until the potatoes are fork tender, approximately 20-30 minutes. You may want to add additional salt and pepper here as well.
  3. Add pasta. When potatoes are just tender, add pasta, and continue to cook until the pasta is al dente.
  4. Serve. To serve, add some freshly grated parmesan cheese to individual bowls of soup, along with a dollop of pesto sauce (if desired). Enjoy with some crusty bread!

Serve with French bread and coarsely grated Parmesan cheese. When ready to serve the soup, combine the basil and pine nuts with a pinch of salt in a food processor. Just before serving, swirl the pesto into the soup, and serve with a sprinkling of grated cheese. Minestrone with pesto alla genovese is a dish that comes together with a perfect blend of fresh vegetables and legumes with typical Ligurian basil pesto - made without the pine nuts in this case. Pesto Minestrone is my updated version of the beloved classic Italian soup.

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