Easy Minestrone Soup

Time

Yield

4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

Ingredients

1 md. onion, chopped
4 to 5 stalks celery, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 cup water
2 cans beef broth
1 can mixed vegetables
1 can red kidney beans
1 can tomato sauce
1 zucchini, sliced
3 cups md. shell pasta
1 dash red pepper
1 tbsp. oregano
1 tbsp. basil
1 tsp. parsley flakes
Salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

Add water to soup pot and add onions, celery, and garlic. Cook until onions and celery are translucent. Add remaining ingredients to the pot except the pasta and zucchini. Reduce heat and simmer this for about 30 minutes. Add pasta shells and zucchini and cook until pasta is done to taste. Sprinkle each bowl with freshly grated parmesan cheese and serve with garlic bread.

Author's Comments

You can really play with the spices adding more or less to taste. The red pepper controls the hot bite, so be cautious. Also, add more or less pasta shells to taste remembering the more you add, the thicker your soup will be-and a bit longer cooking time. If you want to go fancy, leave out the water and sauté onions, celery and garlic in olive oil, it adds more fat but doesn\'t really change the taste.

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3 Recipe Reviews

monna moore

monna moore reviewed Easy Minestrone Soup on February 21, 2001

this is really good recipe I maded at my friends dinner party and I was a big hit. Everyine want to know where i got I from and if I could make it for there party. This was just what i needed.

carol

carol reviewed Easy Minestrone Soup on December 10, 2002

I would only add 1 cup of macaroni. 3 cups is to much and absorbs all the broth

almarzano

almarzano reviewed Easy Minestrone Soup on January 9, 2008

this soup is To Good the only thing i found wrong is that there is hardly any broth left after cooking!!will adjust next time.