Cheats Minestone Soup

[tonydav]

Cheat's Minestone Soup
NB: The original receipe this is based on is from Donna Hay magazine. I've made a few changes to liven it up a bit and also "Thermomix it". It's so easy to make I often quickly make it for lunch. The kids also like it!

Ingredients:
1 tsp Olive oil
1 each brown onion
2 each garlic cloves
2 each celery stalks
1 carrot
1 sprig basil
800 g can crushed tomatoes
2.5 cups chicken stock
400 g can cannellini beans
50 g rissoni pasta
1 dash tobasco or similar sauce
pesto to serve
parmesan to serve

Preparation:
1. Crush 2 garlic cloves speed 9 3 seconds

2. Add 1 brown onion quartered, 2 celery stalks roughly chopped, 1 carrot roughly chopped, basil

3. Chop speed 5, 3 seconds, scrape down, speed 5, 2 seconds

4. Add 1 tb Olive Oil, cook 8 minutes 100c, reverse soft

5. Add 2 cans chopped tomatoes, 2.5 cups chicken stock, 1 can cannellini beans, 50g rissoni pasta

6. Cook 100c, 5 mins once boiled reverse 1

7. Add dash tobasco sauce and salt to taste

8. Serve with 1/2 - 1 ts pesto and grated parmesan and additional dash of tobasco if desired, and crusty sourdough or similar for dipping!

Tips
I've used bortelli beans when I didn't have cannelli. Tasted fine.

Rissoni pasta is a small rice like pasta.

[cookie1]

I saw this in her book, thanks for converting Tonydav.

[Thermomixer]

Thanks tonydav,  great little recipe for these cold days. 

[judydawn]

Needed some soup for the freezer so thought I'd do this old recipe for the current challenge.

I chopped the garlic, onion, celery & carrot pieces for 3 sec/speed 5 - it didn't need any further chopping.
I didn't add the cannellini beans with the tomatoes, stock and risoni - added them at the end and cooked a further 2 minutes.
My tabasco was way out of date & I found some sauteed red capsicum and onion in the freezer so used 1/4 cup of that instead.
I used 2 tsp powdered stock in 2.5 cups boiling water for the stock ingredient.

Once again the soup needed some more flavour so I added 2 umami cubes, 1 teaspoon of salt, several grindings of pepper and a handful of chopped parsley.

Cooked the soup for 20 mins/100^o/reverse/speed 2 (turned the speed down to 1 when it started bubbling)/MC off & steaming basket in place.  Added the beans and cooked a further 2 minutes.

This makes a full TM bowl - 2 litres.

Tasted good in the end and I expect it to be even better tomorrow.

[Cuilidh]

Looks like a lovely hearty soup, Judy, just what you need in this weather ... and second day soup always tastes better!