Minestrone is a traditional light Italian vegetable soup. This dish comes from rural peasant culinary traditions. Italians prepare it exclusively from seasonal vegetables, sometimes with the addition of rice or pasta.
Tell you how to cook soup minestrone. Usually minestrone is prepared on vegetable broth , less often - on meat, chicken. Sometimes this is a special broth, cooked from a pork ham on a bone and / or pancetta (Italian bacon) with the addition of various spices and unsulphated grape wine.
Sometimes for cooking minestrone vegetables or (part of vegetables) are fried in olive oil, but only quite easily, on low heat. The composition can include onions, fennel, carrots, cabbage of various species, celery, zucchini, pumpkin, sweet pepper, eggplant, turnip, beans, asparagus, etc.
In the modern version, sometimes cut vegetables are cooked until ready, then half of the finished vegetables are ground with a blender until smooth and returned to the soup.
Recipe for vegetable soup minestrone
- broth chicken, or pork, or water - about 2-2.5 liters;
- potatoes not large young - 4-6 pcs. oblong form;
- leeks (or common) - 1 piece;
- string beans - about 100 g;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- young green peas - about 100 g;
- sweet pepper - 2 pcs .;
- broccoli cabbage or colored - about 100 g;
- rice - 2-3 tbsp. spoons;
- different greens (parsley, basil, coriander, etc.);
- olive oil;
- hot red peppers and garlic;
- dry spices (peppercorns, cloves, laurel), ground black pepper.
Preparation
My potatoes, cut each tuber into 4 parts along (or somehow in another way) and lay it in a pan. We also lay a young string bean and washed rice. Fill broth or water and cook for 10-12 minutes with the addition of laurel, pepper peas, cloves and bay leaf.
At the same time, in a frying pan in olive oil, lightly fry the sliced leeks (or quarter normal rings) with carrots, cut into strips. Add green peas and stew for 8 minutes. We shift the contents of the frying pan into a saucepan along with the chopped sweet pepper and the broccoli, disassembled into small cots. Cook all together for 8 minutes. You can 3 minutes before the readiness to add a little tomato paste or finely chopped tomato (2-3 pcs.).
With a ladle or a noise, we extract some vegetables from the pan (about 1/3) and put them into a plate. Slightly cool, we rub with a blender and return it to the pan with soup.
Before serving, sprinkle with chopped garlic and greens. Red spicy pepper and ground black spice individually.