ISO recipe for minestrone soup- tasting like canned, preferd

Seraph ↓

Tue, Mar 24 2009, 8:35 am

I would like a good recipe for minestrone soup.

I have in my mind a certain type of canned minestrone that they used to serve for lunch in school. I would love to make one with a similar taste.
Any suggestions how to make a parve minestrone, that will taste similar to the canned stuff?

stargazer

Tue, Mar 24 2009, 10:38 am

I never had canned minestrone soup, but there is a recipe for lentil minestrone soup in the Kosher Palette 2. I have made it a few times and it is really delicious! If you are interested I can post the recipe.

Inspired

Tue, Mar 24 2009, 10:41 am

I have made a tomatoey vegetable with pasta. Really simple, just saute onions and cut up carrots and maybe zuchini add frozen mixed veggies, sugar or silan, spices, salt and tomato paste and water then simmer for awhile. Then boil pasta and add when serving.

greeneyes

Tue, Mar 24 2009, 8:05 pm

I don't know what canned minestrone soup tastes like, but I made this minestrone soup for shabbos, & we really liked it:

1 clove garlic
3 tomatoes, peeled & diced
5 carrots, peeled & diced
6 stalks celery, diced
1 small eggplant, diced
1 tsp. oregano
2 tsp. dried basil
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper
1 can tomato paste (5.5 oz.)
1 can tomato sauce (680 ml or 23 oz.)
8 cups water
1/4 cup wine (optional), I used dry red wine
1 cup canned red or white kidney beans, drained
1 cup raw fusilli or rotini noodles (you can use whole wheat)

In a large soup pot, saute the garlic on medium heat until soft. Add tomatoes and saute for 2 minutes more or until soft. Add the remaining veggies & cook until they have released some of their natural juices, about 5 minutes.

Add all remaining ingredients, except beans & pasta. Add the water last, once all the other ingredients are well mixed. Then add the beans.

Bring water to boil & lower heat. Simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.

Add the pasta about 10 to 15 minutes before serving.

Yields 12 servings

(From the cookbook Spice it Right)

↑ Seraph

Tue, Mar 24 2009, 9:56 pm

Ok, so in the end what I made had zuchini, onion, carrots, potatoes, white beans, macaroni, one diced tomato, a little bit of tomato paste- enough that it was all red, but not too dark, some chicken soup mix, and salt and parsley and garlic. And it tasted remarkably like canned stuff! Yay for me, I figured it out!