Kinda Minestrone

Name: Kinda Minestrone
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 carrot, peeled and diced; 1 onion, peeled and diced; 1 celery stick, diced; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 400 g tin chopped tomatoes; 100 g leafy cabbage or kale, very finely sliced; 2 baby new potatoes, diced; 2 stock cubes (added to 1.4 litres boiling water); 1 teaspoon dried oregano; 50 g dried orzo; 2 fresh tomatoes, quartered; salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Soups

By Fraser Reid

Published 2019

About

This is our take on a Minestrone, using orzo as the pasta as it doesn’t swell so much when cooking. Feel free to change up the greens to whatever is in season.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, peeled and diced
1 carrot, peeled and diced

Vegan
June
Summer
Soup
Pasta

Method

Heat the oil in a pot on a medium heat. When it’s hot, add the onion, carrot, garlic, celery and potatoes and cook, stirring, for 10 minutes until they soften. Turn the heat down a bit if they start to brown.

Add in the finely chopped cabbage or kale, tinned and fresh tomatoes, orzo and oregano and continue to cook for a further 5 minutes.

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