Minestrone Soup with Breadsticks
Hearty minestrone soup made with veggies, beans, and pasta and served with homemade breadsticks
Equipment
- Stovetop, oven
Ingredients
For the Minestrone Soup:
- 6 baby carrots cubed
- 8 asparagus chopped
- 1 zucchini chopped with skin
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 onion chopped
- 4 tomatoes chopped
- 2 peppers cubed
- 1 beetroot chopped
- ½ cup red bean
- ½ cup black bean
- ½ cup white bean
- ¾ cup pasta elbow
- 1 sprig thyme chopped
- 3 sprigs parsley chopped
- ⅓ tsp dried oregano
- 1 tbsp salt
- ⅓ tbsp black pepper powder
- 4 leaves collard greens chopped
- 1 cup kale chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil extra virgin
For the Breadsticks:
- ¼ ounce dried yeast
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 4¼ cups bread flour
- ½ tsp salt
Instructions
How to make the Minestrone Soup:
- Soak the beans overnight and pressure cook them with enough water to submerge them.
- Remove the skin of the tomatoes by blanching them in hot water for 30 seconds or peel them.
- In a Dutch oven, drizzle extra virgin olive oil, and add the minced garlic, stir for 10 seconds.
- Next, add the onions and sauté for a minute.
- Add the tomatoes, sauté for 2 minutes.
- Mix in the vegetables, greens, beans, and pasta.
- Add the dried oregano, fresh thyme, salt, pepper, and cook with the lid for 25 minutes.
- Garnish with parsley and some parmesan cheese (optional). Serve hot.
How to make the Breadsticks:
- In a bowl, use ¼ cup of tepid water and stir in the yeast and keep aside for five minutes.
- Mix the flour, sugar, butter, salt, and 1 ¼- 1 ½ cups of warm water and knead to form a dough.
- Knead the dough on a floured rolling board for 5 minutes.
- Pinch and shape them into breadsticks, and place them on lined baking sheets to prove for 45 minutes to an hour. Brush the breadsticks with olive oil.
- Bake at 4000F for 15 minutes or until golden.
- Brush them again with extra virgin olive oil and kosher salt.
Notes
- You can substitute all-purpose flour for bread flour in this recipe.
- You can use orecchiette pasta instead of the elbow or any small pasta.
Nutrition
Calories: 166kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 8gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 1358mgPotassium: 861mgFiber: 7gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 4074IUVitamin C: 72mgCalcium: 95mgIron: 3mg
