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Minestrone with vegetables, beans and pesto

January 27, 2017
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Minestrone with vegetables, beans and pesto

Minestrone is a soup of Italian origin prepared with vegetables, rich in vitamins and mineral salts important for the health of the body. The beans give a high intake of proteins and the pesto, made with basil and garlic, makes this dish a special recipe with the taste that recalls the soups of the grandma.

Ingredients for 4 persons

  • 200 gr of short pasta or rice, wholegrain
  • 100 gr of dried beans
  • 1 onion
  • 1 shallot
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 celery
  • 1 leek
  • 2 potatoes
  • 1 small white turnip
  • 1 zucchini
  • 1 ripe tomato
  • 3 leaves of savoy cabbage
  • Some leaves of basil
  • ½ clove of garlic
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Salt
  • pepper

Preparation

Soak the beans for a whole night. Cut into slices the onion, the shallot and half a leek, cut into pieces the carrot, the celery, the zucchini, the peeled potatoes, peeled turnip, the tomato and the savoy cabbage. Pour in a pot two liters of water, oil, the beans and all the vegetables and cook for at least one hour. Crush the biggest pieces of vegetables with a spoon, add salt. Add now pasta or rice and cook in accordance with the timing reported on the pack. place the basil leaves and garlic into the bowl of a food processor and pulse a several times, add the pesto to the soup and mix well.

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