If you want to treat your loved ones with a delicious Italian dish, then you should definitely pay attention to the traditional minestrone recipe. This is a delicious and very healthy vegetable soup that is quite simple to prepare.
Ingredients:
- 200 g white beans;
- 4 medium-sized onions;
- 200 g green beans;
- 2 carrots;
- 2 potato tubers;
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- 200 g of peas;
- 2 ripe tomatoes;
- 2 zucchini;
- 2 turnips;
- 200 g green asparagus;
- 2 liters of drinking water;
- 2 cubes of broth (chicken);
- ground black pepper and salt.
Preparation:
- White beans need preliminary preparation. It needs to be thoroughly rinsed and filled with water for about 12 hours (as long as possible).
- Green peas need to be peeled. Ripe tomatoes are washed thoroughly and then cut into small pieces.
- The bulbs must also be peeled and washed. Then, using a sharp knife, they are cut into small cubes.
- The green beans should be rinsed and cut into small pieces.
- You can then move on to preparing vegetables such as carrots, potato tubers, turnips, and squash. All these vegetables must be peeled and rinsed thoroughly in running water. Then these vegetables are cut into approximately the same, not very large cubes.
- Rinse the asparagus thoroughly and cut into small pieces. After that, it must be poured into boiling water, into which a small amount of salt is previously poured. Asparagus should not cook for long.
- Pour the white beans into a saucepan, add water and add a little salt. After that, she is sent to a hot stove. The beans should be cooked until cooked through, but be careful not to overcook them. Drain the water.
- Pour olive oil into a large enough saucepan. Send salt, onion and ground black pepper there. Cook the onions for about 1 minute. Then add carrots, turnips and potato tubers. Stir the contents of the pan thoroughly.
- Then add white and green beans, zucchini, and asparagus. Mix everything and continue to fry the vegetables for 5 minutes. Such preparation of vegetables is very important, since the aroma of the future dish depends on it.
- Then water is poured into a saucepan and stock cubes are placed (you can take 2 liters of chicken stock). When the mixture boils, reduce heat and cook until vegetables are fully cooked.
- Tomatoes are added to the soup 10 minutes before the end of cooking. This dish is served hot to the table.
