If you know me, you know I don’t like to play favorites with my food. I love all my food equally. Usually. But this soup changes everything I thought I knew. This is anything but your basic minestrone soup. It has all the main parts- veggies, beans, and pasta- but it’s so much more than that. First of all, it’s PACKED with good for you green veggies, including broccoli, zucchini, spinach, and cabbage. Second of all, fresh basil and thyme are stirred in right at the end, imbibing the flavor of the herbs into the soup and keeping the flavor super fresh. It makes it almost like pesto in soup form.
Lastly, the soup is finished off with some freshly grated Parmesan cheese, fresh ground black pepper, and a drizzle of high quality extra virgin olive oil. Goodness gracious. Simply amazing. This is one of those recipes that came about because I had a bunch of random leftover ingredients needing to be used. Some spinach about to wilt, a zucchini on its last leg, a random quarter of a head of cabbage leftover after making coleslaw, and a can of forgotten cannellini beans in my pantry. The beauty of this soup is that ingredient portions don’t matter very much (and to be honest, I estimated the amounts in the recipe below), and you can add or omit ingredients as necessary (add cauliflower, leave out the broccoli, add carrots, leave out the zucchini, use another kind of bean, etc.). There are, however, a few must-dos to make this recipe 100% awesome:
Like most recipes on Bowl of Delicious, this soup comes together quickly (in about 30 minutes) and is extremely easy to make. Plus, it’s a one-pot meal and is freezable! Check out some other quick and easy or soup recipes. Recipe below- enjoy!
