My Healthy and Nutritious Minestrone Soup

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Minestrone soup is the perfect thing to keep you going all day. My version contains beans, pasta, kale and many assorted vegetables to create a well balanced soup. This is such an adaptable recipe, I basically used whatever I found in the fridge, so use whatever is in season- anything goes in this soup!

To make this soup I used:

2 tbsps oil
1 onion
3 cloves garlic
2 potatoes
1 carrot
2 peppers
handful of green beans
1.5 litres of vegetable stock made with 6 tsps of Vegan Marigold Bouillon
1x400g can chopped tomatoes
200g tomato passata
pinch oregano
1 tsp sugar
150 g pasta (e.g macaroni, I used gnocchi sardi pasta)
1 courgette
handful of mushrooms
1 tin of beans (I used borlotti beans but most beans would do)
handful of kale

The number of people that this soup feeds depends on the number of ingredients you add. The soup I made served around 8 hungry people.

Chop your onion and your garlic.

In a large pan, heat your oil. Add the onion and the garlic and cook gently for around 5 minutes, stirring until soft.

Chop your peppers and carrot, dice your potatoes, and chop your green beans into thirds. Add these to the pan and gently cook until soft. Season with salt and pepper.

Add the stock, tinned tomatoes, passata, dried herbs, and sugar. Bring to the boil and then reduce to a simmer. Taste and season. I added a pinch of paprika to give it a kick. Simmer gently for 30-40 minutes.