Minestrone Soup
By Let's Cook It · May 3, 2026
Italian vegetable soup with beans, pasta and seasonal vegetables.

- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- 45 min
- Total
- 1 h 5 min
- Serves
- 6
- #italian
- #soup
- #vegetarian
- #healthy
- #comfort food
Ingredients
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 carrots, diced
- 2 celery sticks, diced
- 1 zucchini, diced
- 200g green beans, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 400g canned chopped tomatoes
- 400g canned cannellini beans, drained
- 1.5 litres vegetable stock
- 150g small pasta (ditalini)
- Parmesan rind (optional)
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- Handful spinach
- Parmesan and basil to serve
- 3 tbsp olive oil
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Instructions
- 1
Heat olive oil and sauté onion, carrot and celery for 8 minutes.
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- 2
Add garlic, zucchini and green beans, cook 3 minutes.
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- 3
Stir in tomatoes, cannellini, stock, oregano and parmesan rind.
- 4
Simmer 25 minutes.
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- 5
Add pasta and cook 9 minutes more.
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- 6
Stir in spinach until wilted, season to taste.
- 7
Serve with grated parmesan and torn basil.
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