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Minestrone Soup Recipe with Bread Bowl

Minestrone Soup Bread Bowl
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Minestrone Soup Recipe with Bread Bowl

Introduction

Minestrone soup is the perfect winter warmer, and it’s even better served in our delicious Cape Seed Rolls. With fresh veggies, creamy cannellini beans, and hearty macaroni, it’s the ultimate comfort food for those cold days. The best bit? Because it’s served in the rolls, you get to eat the bowl as you go, so you get extra deliciousness with even less cleanup! Whether you make this minestrone recipe for yourself, or share it with your loved ones, you’ll find yourself making it again and again as a tasty lunch or dinner.

Ingredients

Method

1
Preheat the oven to 180C or 160C fan-forced.
2
In a large pot, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add diced onion, garlic, carrots and celery and sauté about 5 minutes, until softened. Add in zucchini, green beans, capsicum and cook for 2 minutes.
3
Add in vegetable stock, crushed tomatoes, water, parsley, sugar, season with salt and pepper to taste and bring mixture to a boil, then reduce heat to medium and allow soup to gently boil, uncovered for about 20 minutes.
4
Add in macaroni then cover and cook 20 minutes longer.
5
Add cannellini beans, chick peas, and cook, uncovered, for about 5 minutes.
6
Meanwhile, carefully cut the rolls in half horizontally. Scoop out the inside of the rolls with your hands, set aside to make breadcrumbs for another recipe. Place rolls on a baking tray and place in oven for 10 minutes to warm up.
7
Spoon the soup into each roll and top with the top of the Cape Seed Roll to form a lid, and serve immediately.
FAQs

By far the easiest way to add pasta to minestrone is to put it in uncooked and cook it in the soup. If you don’t want to do that though, you can cook it separately, which is great if you want to have better control of how al dente it is.

If you want to add that little bit extra to your minestrone soup, add cheese when serving, sprinkle on some pepper, or add a few slices of crusty bread to the side. Parsley and basil also make nice garnishes for the perfect finishing touch.

While vegetable soup and minestrone both contain vegetables, minestrone also has either pasta, rice, or beans added. Vegetable soup on the other hand tends to be more simple, and doesn't include pasta, rice or beans. As minestrone was originally created as a way to use up leftovers, it makes sense that it’s more of an eclectic mix.