Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, mighty minestrone. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mighty Minestrone is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mighty Minestrone is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mighty Minestrone:

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