Vegan Minestrone soup is a delicious, thick Italian soup made with lots of vegetables, greens, beans, and pasta or rice. It tastes best with crispy garlic bread.
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I prefer keeping my fridge clean and fresh so never stock it up with too many fruits and vegetables. The maximum I stock up is for a week. It makes me uncomfortable if there are too many unconsumed ingredients from the previous week, left in my fridge. To avoid this, on weekends I generally plan to make a recipe that can consume all the leftover vegetables of my fridge. However, being a weekend dish, it has to be special and delicious.
My recipe of the day is one such healthy vegan soup which helps me in clearing my fridge and both Amit and I love having it; especially with Crispy garlic cheese bread or just garlic bread. The dish is delicious Vegan Minestrone Soup.
I made this soup last week and it was so tasty that on special request of Amit, I made it again the very next day and we enjoyed it for 2 consecutive days, without getting bored.
Origin of Minestrone Soup
It's believed that Minestrone originated in the Roman Empire. Many believe that the original recipe was vegetarian but later when it traveled within Italy and other parts of the world with explorers, more ingredients like meat and pasta got added to it.
Minestrone comes from the Italian word Minestra which means Soup.
Which vegetables to add?
One of the best things about the Minestrone soup recipe is that it's very flexible. There are no fixed rules about which vegetables or greens or pasta to add in it.
I have shared what I generally add to it, you can also add cauliflower, beans, zucchini, broccoli or whatever is available in your fridge.
Similarly, I have used elbow pasta but you can add any other type of pasta or rice to it.
How to serve?
This Vegan Minestrone soup is full of all the good things like vegetables, greens, beans, and pasta so it's not just a soup, it's a complete meal in itself.
It's so filling that you don't need much to serve with it. Just serve some bread or breadsticks on the side and it will be perfect.
If you are a vegetarian, just garnish this soup with some grated cheese before serving,
My favorite way of having Vegetarian Italian Minestrone is with crispy garlic bread, it’s a great combination.
More Vegan Soup recipes
1. Cabbage Soup
3. Vegan Greek Chickpea Soup- Revithosoupa
4. Vegan Greek White bean soup
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Recipe
Vegan Minestrone Soup
Equipment
- 1 Large cooking pot
- 1 Spatula
- Knife and chopping board
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion finely chopped
- 1 medium tomato finely chopped
- 1 small potato diced
- 1 small carrot diced
- 1 celery stalk diced
- A handful of spinach roughly chopped
- ¼ cup green peas fresh or frozen
- 2 tablespoons sweet corn kernels fresh or frozen
- 4-5 garlic cloves minced
- 1 cubanelle/ any other pepper diced
- ½ cup uncooked pasta
- 1 cup boiled or canned kidney beans
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- Salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 5-6 cups vegetable stock or water
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pot and add garlic. Sauté for around 30 seconds. Add chopped onion and cook until it becomes translucent.
- Add celery, carrot, potatoes and cook for 7-8 minutes. Add sweet corn kernels and peas. Cook for another 2-3 minutes.
- Add tomatoes and tomato paste. Mix and cook for 2-3 minutes. Once the tomatoes turn mushy add all the seasonings.
- Cook for about a minute then add vegetable stock. Let the soup simmer for 5 minutes.
- Transfer a cup of the vegetables cooked in the broth along with around a tablespoon of broth to a blending jar or food processor and make a paste.
- Add pasta, chopped spinach, kidney beans, and vegetable paste to the pot and cook for another 20 minutes.
- Serve hot with crusty bread.
A comforting, filling and a meal in the bowl kind of soup. Minestrone was one of the first soups I learnt to make when I started cooking. Like you Vandana, I don't like to stock up too many fruits and veggies, my clearing the fridge day is usually Wednesday. Interesting fact about Minestrone Soup.
Thanks a lot, Mayuri. Glad that you liked the facts about Minestrone soup.
This soup looks delicious with its wide selection of vegetables and beans. Great way to keep warm in the winter
Thanks a lot Mina. Yes, a great recipe for the current season.
Minestrone is one of my favorite winter time soups I have been eating since I was a child - Yours looks perfect!
Thank you so much 🙂
Thanks a lot 🙂