Simple Way to Make Favorite Minestrone Soup

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Minestrone Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Minestrone Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook minestrone soup using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:

1. Prepare 2 tbsp. olive oil
2. Get 1 tbsp. unsalted butter
3. Take 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
4. Prepare 2 stalks celery, diced
5. Make ready 1/2 yellow onion, diced
6. Prepare 4 cloves garlic, minced
7. Get 1/4 cup (2 oz.) tomato paste
8. Make ready 1/2 tsp. each oregano, dried basil
9. Make ready 1/4 tsp. ground thyme
10. Make ready 1 can (28 oz.) fire roasted crushed tomatoes
11. Take 4 cups unsalted vegetable broth
12. Make ready 2 bay leaves
13. Get 3/4 tsp. salt
14. Make ready 1/4 tsp. pepper
15. Make ready 2 small potatoes, scrubbed and diced
16. Take 1 zucchini, diced
17. Take 1 yellow squash, diced
18. Make ready 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
19. Get 1 cup ditalini pasta (or other small shape)
20. Prepare 2 heaping cups spinach, roughly chopped

Instructions to make Minestrone Soup:

1. In a large pot over medium heat, add the olive oil and the butter. Once it's hot and the butter has melted, stir in the onions, celery and carrot with a big pinch of salt. Cook, stirring occasionally until they have begun to soften up, about 3-5 minutes. Then stir in the tomato paste, garlic, oregano, thyme and basil. Cook about 2-3 minutes more, stirring pretty often.
2. Pour a bit of the broth in and deglaze the pan. Then the rest with the crushed tomatoes and bay leaves. Increase the heat to med-high and let this come up to a simmer. Once its simmering, stir in the beans, potatoes, zucchini and yellow squash along with the salt and pepper. Let this all simmer together until the veggies are all tender. Last, take out the bay leaves and stir in the chopped spinach and let it wilt down. Taste and add more salt, pepper, etc until you're happy with the flavor.
3. While the soup is coming to a simmer, heat a separate pot of salted water over high heat. Once its boiling, cook the ditalini pasta according to package directions, then drain and set it aside until the soup is done.
4. To serve, you can stir the cooked pasta into the soup, or if you're going to have a lot of leftovers, you can just keep them separate and add the pasta to individual bowls and pour the soup over top of it… that way the pasta won't absorb all the liquid.

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