Meatball minestrone soup with cannellini beans, wholemeal pasta,carrots, plum tomatoes and spinach, a hearty soup to warm you up on those chilli days. This is what l call comfort food with minimum effort and basic ingredients.
This classic Italian soup is hearty, full of goodness and so soothing. And a great way of clearing up the fridge, anything goes in, so not to worry if you don’t have a certain ingredient, it will still be delicious, that’s for sure. A very colourful soup, isn’t it?
Talking about comfort food, don’t you just love a bowl of hot soup on such a cold weather? I definitely do.
Ingredients
For the meatballs:
- 250 g minced beef
- 1/4 onion, finelly chopped
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1/2 tsp Italian herbs
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
For the soup:
- 500 ml vegetable stock
- 1 can plum tomatoes (400 g)
- 1 can cannellini beans (400 g)
- 1 large onion
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 large potato
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1/2 cup wholemeal pasta
- 1 carrot
- 1 cup baby spinach
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 tsp Italian herbs
- salt and pepper to taste
- juice from 1/4 lemon
- parsley to garnish
Instructions
- To make the meatballs, mix all the ingredients together (except the oil) and shape into small(ish) balls. Depending on the size, you should get about 10-15 meatballs.
- Heat up the oil in a frying pan and add the meatballs, in batches if needed. Fry on both sides until cooked through, it should take 6-7 minutes on a medium heat.
- Remove fron the pan and set aside.
- In a large pan, heat up the oil and add the onion chopped finely and fry until golden.
- Add the carrots and garlic (also chopped finely) and stir for 1-2 minutes.
- The plum tomatoes can be added too, you can chop them up a bit if you don’t want big chunks.
- Stir for a further 2 minutes, then add the vegetable stock, chopped potato, beans, pasta and bay leaves.
- Leave to cook on a medium heat until all vegetable are soft and the pasta is cooked through.
- Add the meatballs, spinach and herbs, lemon juice and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Leave to cook for 2 more minutes, then turn off the heat.
- Garnish with freshly chopped parsley.
Enjoy! ^_^
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