White Minestrone
A Kitcheninspirations original recipe
Makes 2.4 L hearty soup
Ingredients:
- 15 mL olive oil
- 1 leek, chopped
- 1.5 L stock (see notes)
- 15 g butter
- 4 stalks celery, diced
- 2 zucchini, diced
- 6 medium cremini mushrooms, diced
- Handful of spinach, roughly chopped
- 540 mL can of white beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 g oregano
- cocktail bocconcini, chopped
- Basil, chiffonade
Directions:
- Heat the olive oil in a stock pot. Add the leeks and wilt. Add the vegetable stock and corn broth and cook the leeks until they are falling apart.
- Blitz with your best blender until smooth and creamy. Push through a fine sieve into a large glass measuring cup and set aside, discard the pulp.
- Add the butter and melt, add the celery, zucchini and mushrooms and sauté until fork tender. Add the spinach and oregano and cook until the spinach has wilted. Add the white beans
- Serve hot in small cups garnished with a sprinkle of the bocconcini and the chiffonade of basil.
Notes:
- I used a combination of corn broth and vegetable stock which gave the soup a beautiful flavour.
I like the way you garnished your minestrone with the bocconcini and basil.
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Winter is soup season in our family. This dish looks and sounds lovely – I like that it’s light yet hearty and filling.
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Very nice! Love the color!
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Eva, your soup is proof that simple is best. This looks really delicious and full of warm body goodness.
Velva
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We love minestrone here but often make it with just vegetables and not pasta. This looks delicious Eva!
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What do you mean with bocconcini?
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What a great soup! I eat almost everything and anything, but tomato-based soups I usually take a pass on. Not sure why, since I love tomato sauce … but weirdly, not soup. So I rarely have minestrone. But I’d have this one in a heartbeat.
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I can eat raw tomatoes but nothing with cooked tomatoes including soups and sauces! They are just too acidic for my delicate belly!!!
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A most delicious way to warm up on a chilly night! I love the addition of bocconcini!!!
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It looks warming and quite tasty.
angiesrecipes
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