Minestrone
A colourful Italian vegetable soup with beans and pasta – a warming bowl full of vegetables.
- Prep time
- Prep time: 15 min
- Cook time
- Cook time: 30 min
- 4 servings
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Ingredients
- Onion1 piece
- Carrot2 piece
- Celery1 piece
- Courgette1 piece
- Potato2 piece
- Garlic1 clove
- Tomato1 can
- White beans1 can
- Soup pasta100 g
- Vegetable stock1 l
- Parmesan40 g
- Olive oil2 tbsp
Preparation
- 1
Dice the onion, carrot, celery, courgette and potato. (12 min)
- 2
Sweat the onion and garlic in the olive oil for 3 min, add the rest of the vegetables and fry them along with it for 3 min.
- 3
Pour in the tomatoes and the vegetable stock and let the soup simmer for 15 min.
- 4
Add the beans and the pasta and cook everything for another 10 min. Season with salt and pepper.
- 5
Sprinkle with Parmesan and serve.
What makes this recipe special
The recipe comes first — no long preamble. Down here you'll find real numbers for this exact dish: season, plant diversity, meat in comparison.
In September, Onion, Carrot, Celery, Courgette, Potato, and Tomato are in season — fresher and usually cheaper than imported.
Why cooking in season pays offWith 8 different plant species, this recipe brings you closer to the target of 30 plants per week.
Why 30 plants a week?No meat or fish at all — the average meal in Western Europe contains around 60 g.
How mangia shows your balanceThat's this dish — to see how your whole week adds up (plants, meat, season), the mangia balance does the tracking for you, without any counting.
What mangia can doAvg. values: Western European nutrition studies · 30-plant goal: American Gut Project 2018 / ZOE
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