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#WFD – Minestrone soup

Serve garnished with grated Parmesan cheese and chopped fresh parsley

POLOKWANE – Minestrone is a thick soup of Italian origin made with vegetables, often with the addition of pasta or rice, sometimes both. Common ingredients include beans, onions, celery, carrots, stock, and tomatoes.

There is no set recipe for minestrone, since it is usually made out of whatever vegetables are in season. It can be vegetarian, contain meat, or contain a meat-based broth.

Ingredients

  1. 15ml olive oil
  2. 15ml margarine
  3. 2 onions, finely chopped
  4. 2 cloves garlic, chopped
  5. 3 carrots, peeled and cubed
  6. 3 celery sticks, diced
  7. 3 potatoes, peeled and cubed
  8. 1 red pepper, diced (seeded)
  9. 250ml green beans, chopped
  10. 2 tins tomatoes, whole and peeled
  11. 1.5 lt water
  12. 3 x KNORR Vegetable Stock Pot
  13. 1 tin cannellini beans, drained
  14. 60g fusilli pasta

Method

  1. Heat oil and margarine in a pot and add onions and garlic and cook till soft and golden.
  2. Add the carrots, celery, potatoes, red pepper, green beans and tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes.
  3. Add the water and KNORR Vegetable Stock pot, bring to the boil then reduce the heat and allow to simmer partially covered for 45 minutes
  4. Add the cannellini beans and pasta, and bring to the boil for 12 minutes
  5. Serve garnished with grated Parmesan cheese and chopped fresh parsley

This recipe was provided by What’s for Dinner.

raeesak@nmgroup.co.za

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Raeesa Sempe

Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. – Tom Stoppard

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