Not-exactly Minestrone Soup

Steps Making Recipes Not-exactly Minestrone Soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps

Not-exactly Minestrone Soup -

You can cook Not-exactly Minestrone Soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients cook Not-exactly Minestrone Soup

1. Prepare 1 tbsp Oil.
2. Prepare 1 onion, chopped.
3. Prepare 4 cloves garlic, chopped.
4. Prepare 2 tbsp tomato purée.
5. Prepare 1 leek, sliced.
6. You need 3 carrots, diced.
7. Prepare 1 pepper, deseeded and diced.
8. You need 100 g chestnut mushrooms, chopped.
9. You need A few cherry tomatoes, halved.
10. It's 400 g tin chopped tomatoes.
11. You need 2 litres vegetable stock. “Marigold” or stock cubes fine.
12. It's Handful dried pasta. I’ve used Trofie but otherwise break large types of pasta into pieces.
13. It's 400 g tin cannelloni beans, drained.
14. Prepare 1/4 cabbage in strips. The core stalk has also been used, diced.
15. Prepare 1 tsp each dried oregano and thyme.
16. It's 1/2 tsp dried basil.
17. It's Grated Parmesan cheese.

Not-exactly Minestrone Soup instructions

1. Heat the oil in a stock pot or large saucepan. Gently fry the onion for 3 minutes, only stirring to avoid sticking..
2. Add the garlic and fry for a further minute. Then stir in the tomato purée, pepper, mushrooms and the leek and continue to fry gently for another 2 minutes..
3. Stir in the carrots and continue gently frying for 2 minutes or until all the vegetables are nicely softened but not browned. Add the cherry tomatoes and give it all another gentle stir..
4. Add the tinned tomatoes and the stock. Gently but throughly stir, add the oregano, thyme and basil, bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer, put a lid on and cook for 15 minutes..
5. Add the beans and the pasta, stir and continue to cook until the pasta is cooked, around 8-12 minutes..
6. Stir in the cabbage and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Then season to taste and serve piping hot, with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese..

Not-exactly Minestrone Soup - Thank you and good luck