The original dish of Italian cuisine is the soup minestrone. This Italian minestrone is a thick soup with a lot of different vegetables, it is added with dry and / or young string beans, green peas, rice or pasta (pasta). Be sure to use stalk celery, carrots and tomatoes, but in general, this soup is prepared with any seasonal vegetables.
How to cook minestrone? In different regions of Italy, of course, there are their traditions and variations of cooking vegetable soup minestrone. It can add some or other ingredients, for example, slices of fried ham - so the soup becomes more nutritious and acquires a characteristic flavor. You can add pesto and / or grated parmesan with finely chopped herbs (basil, parsley, coriander and others) to the ready soup. We, of course, are interested in how to make soup minestrone correctly.
Chicken Minestrone
Ingredients:
- 1 chicken breast (with skin);
- 1 courgette of zucchini;
- half a kilo of cauliflower (or broccoli);
- 2 onions;
- 2 tomatoes;
- 100 g of fresh or frozen green peas;
- 50-80 g of Parmesan;
- 150 g of small pasta;
- salt;
- 2 stems of celery;
- 1-2 tablespoons of natural butter, the same amount of olive oil;
- dry spices (pepper-peas, bay leaf, cloves);
- greens (basil, parsley);
- 2 cloves garlic.
Preparation:
Wash the chicken breast in a pan and pour cold water (about 2 liters). Bring to a boil on high heat. Remove the noise and reduce the fire to medium. Salt and boil (within 40 minutes) with a bulb, a laurel, pepper-peas and a clove. Extract the breast from the broth, cool it and cut it into cubes. Let's broth the broth. Peeled vegetables, that is carrots, onions, zucchini and celery, we cut into cubes or short straws. Rinse cauliflower with cold water and disassemble into small inflorescences. In a deep frying pan, heat up the olive oil, add butter, let it melt. Save the onions for 2 minutes. Add carrots and celery and let's stir, stirring with a spatula, for another 3 minutes. Add the zucchini - another minute. 3. Add the contents of the frying pan and pieces of chicken meat in a saucepan with broth and cook for 15 minutes. And at this time, blanch the boiled tomatoes, peel and peel crushed. Add cauliflower, green peas, pasta and tomatoes. We cook until the pasta is ready (7 minutes) and season with dry spices. Let's put the soup under the lid for about 5 minutes and serve, adding each portion of grated parmesan, chopped greens and garlic.
Minestrone with rice and beans
Here is another recipe for minestrone with rice, green beans and bacon.
Ingredients:
- 100 g of rice;
- half a kilo of cabbage;
- 150 g of bacon;
- 4 tomatoes;
- 1 zucchini;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 onion;
- 1 sweet pepper;
- 200 g of frozen green beans;
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil;
- greens, dried spices, garlic.
Preparation:
We'll chop the cabbage. Peeled carrots, potatoes and zucchini are cut into cubes. Bacon cut into short straws. We'll peel the onions, cut them into half rings and fry them in a frying pan with olive oil and bacon. We will cut the sweet peppers into short straws. In the pan, pour water or meat broth. Bring to a boil, turn off the fire. Put in the pan chopped vegetables, onions with bacon, green beans, washed rice. Let it boil for about 10 minutes - now you can add chopped peppers and cabbage. In the last place - blanched chopped tomatoes. We cook not for long - until the rice and potatoes are ready. Season with dry spices. Ready soup sprinkled with Parmesan (or other hard grated cheese) and chopped herbs and garlic.