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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook minestrone with pesto using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone with pesto:
- Take stock or water
- Make ready olive oil
- Get onion, finely chopped
- Get leek, sliced
- Take carrots, finely chopped
- Get celery stick, finely chopped
- Take garlic cloves, finely chopped
- Take potatoes, peeled and cut into small dice
- Take bay leaf
- Make ready sprig fresh thyme
- Take peas, fresh or frozen
- Prepare courgettes, finely chopped
- Take tomatoes, peeled and finely chopped
- Prepare cooked or canned beans, such as cannellini
- Get pesto sauce
- Make ready freshed parmesan cheese, to serve salt and ground black pepper
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Instructions to make Minestrone with pesto:
- In a large sauce pan, heat the stock or water untip it reaches simmering point
- In another saucepan heat the olive oil. Stir in the onion and leek, and cook for 5-6 minutes, or until the onion softens.
- Add the carrots, celery and garlic, and cook over a moderate heat, stirring often, for a further 5 minutes. Add the potatoes and cook for further 2-3 minutes.
- Pour in the hot stock water, and stir well. Add the bay leaf and thyme and season with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat slightly, leave to cook for 10-12 minutes more.
- Stir in the peas, if fresh, and the finely chopped courgettes and simmer for a further 5 minute. Add the frozen peas, if using, and the chopped tomatoes. Cover the pan, bring slowly to the boil, bring slowly to the boil, then mixture for about 5-8 minutes.
- About 20 minutes before serving the minestrone, remove the lid, and stir in the beans. Simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in the pesto sauc. Taste and ajust the seasoning if necessary. Simmer for a further 5 minutes, then remove the pan from the heat. Allow the soup to stand for few minutes, to bring out the flavours, then serve in warmed bowls. Serve the parmesan separately.
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