Recipe: Perfect Minestrone Soup - Italian Style

Minestrone Soup - Italian Style.

You can cook Minestrone Soup - Italian Style using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Minestrone Soup - Italian Style

1. You need of onions, diced.
2. You need of garlic cloves, chopped.
3. Prepare of olive oil.
4. You need of bay leaves.
5. You need of french beans, diced.
6. It's of celery, diced.
7. Prepare of kidney beans (rajma), boiled.
8. You need of white chick peas (kabuli chana), boiled.
9. You need of frozen peas.
10. You need of assorted Bell peppers, diced.
11. You need of stock (vegetable / chicken / mutton).
12. It's of tomatoes.
13. You need of tomato paste.
14. You need of pasta, boiled.
15. You need of few spinach leaves, chopped.
16. You need of few parsley, chopped.
17. It's of salt and pepper.
18. You need of dried herbs (sage, oregano, rosemary basil).
19. Prepare of cheese, grated.

Minestrone Soup - Italian Style step by step

1. Blanch the tomatoes in hot water for 5 minutes. Discard the skin and chop them. Heat oil in a deep pan and saute the bay leaves and garlic for a few seconds..
2. Add the onion and fry till translucent. Then add the french beans and celery and stir for a minute. Now add the stock and simmer on low flame till the veggies are soft..
3. Add the tomatoes, tomato paste and bell peppers and simmer for a minute or two. Then add the boiled kidney beans, chick peas. boiled pasta, spinach leaves, parsley, dried herbs, salt and pepper..
4. Simmer for 2 minutes. Ladle into soup bowls and serve, garnished with grated cheese..