Minestrone Soup with Pasta - replacement for EDC book

[judydawn]

You will probably find it even tastier tomorrow Dashingden.

[CreamPuff63]

I love maddy's recipe

[natalia]

HI, I made this soup yesterday, along with the suggestions made by amajjika.  YUM YUM .  Thanks, I have never been a fan of minestrone soup but I just love this one.  You can taste the hint of olive oil and galic, thanks for posting this one.

[Bubbles]

I made this yesterday, it was delicious! Even my DD4, and DS2 ate it and it was the first soup they have willingly finished since I started using my TMX (yay!)
I am just wondering though, when I went to add the 750g water, with everything else already in it, it was going to go over the 2L max on in the TMX bowl. So I just added 400g which brought it right up to the max line. Does anyone know if I did something wrong or should I have just gone over the max line?

[judydawn]

Some of our soup recipes really push the capacity of the bowl Bubbles, I just go up to the 2 litre mark and add more stock as and when the level drops or at the end before I pour it into a storage container.  

[Bubbles]

Great thanks JD, I will do that from now on. 

[phatassphairy]

old mother hubbard went to the cupboard and it was bare of beans ...except baked beans .... and seen as this phatassphairy is just too gawd damned lazy to brave this Far North Queensland Winter of 21 dec    and go to the shops i am going to make it with baked beans .......

I am really grateful for this site and i love that before i make something (this is my first attempt at mino soup) i can pop on and get a heads up on things ...like too much pasta. Sends good karma to those who share 

[kyton]

Made this tonight with the tweaks from PPs - voted as delicious by husband and myself.

[Mama Fergie]

I just made it today Kyton after reading your post and seeing the photo. 
It is really tasty and DH will love it. He loves all soups so I try to keep a supply in the freezer.

[Lucyluu]

We had this for dinner with cottage rolls. I didn't have any beans but we didn't miss them. Its a very hearty soup and with the cottage rolls was quite enough for a meal.

[BeezeeBee]

Since Mother Nature decided to grace us with another cool wet evening I gave this a try tonight.  I never made the EDC version since
I never figured it would measure it up to my regular recipe.

I took on board amajjika's suggestions and kept my old recipe in the back of my mind. I started with 1 clove garlic, onion and 1 rasher of bacon which I chopped 3 seconds speed 6 (2 seconds at 5 might have been better). I sauteed this in oil and butter for 3 minutes reverse speed 1 then add a carrot and stick of celery which I chopped for 2 seconds on 5 then sauteed for a further 2 minutes. I continued this process with each addition of zucchini, potato and green beans.

Finally added the tomatoes, stock paste and water cooked 100 reverser speed 1 for 20 minutes after 20 min added tin 4 bean mix and 40 gms pasta and cooked another 10 minutes.

While it was not my old slow cooked minestrone it was pretty good.

Thank you, Delightful Den, for the tweaks. My boys said that this minestrone was yummier than the pure EDC version

[Cabban]

Hi
Cooked for an extra 5 mins, but my veggies still aren't fully cooked. Does anyone know why this is?
I can't keep cooking them for longer on this current soup as I have gluten free pasta which is already starting to break up, also don't want the peas and beans to go mushy...
Any help would be appreciated, thanks :-)

[BeezeeBee]

Cabban, did you use Delightful Dan's method?

[Cabban]

No I didn't.... There was so many suggestions I didn't know who's to follow really
I couldn't cook my gluten free pasta for ten mins though, it breaks up way to easily....
Just realised I forgot to sauté the garlic and onions before I started :s

[Lucyluu]

Just a bump. Made this recently it is a really nice soup . I don't put beans in mine as its so chock full of vegetables there's no room.
 Its great with crusty bread.