Minestrone alla Genovese ~ Silky vegetable soup with basil pesto – Organic Tuscany Cookbook

Name: Minestrone alla Genovese ~ Silky vegetable soup with basil pesto – Organic Tuscany Cookbook
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 250g/8 oz dried cannellini or bortlotti beans soaked overnight and cooked (see below); Extravirgin olive oil; 2 onions; 2 leeks; 2 carrots; 2 sticks celery; 1/2 savoy cabbage; Half head of cavolo nero (Tuscan kale); 2 potatoes; 10 mushrooms; Other seasonal vegetables (winter squash etc) – a handful; 1 litre/2 pints vegetable stock; A handful of dried pasta, either small shapes or broken up spaghetti; Salt, pepper; Pesto sauce

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Print Minestrone ~ Hearty vegetable soup This hearty vegetable soup gets its deep flavour from the Tuscan black kale, cavolo nero.

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Ingredients

250g/8 oz dried cannellini or bortlotti beans soaked overnight and cooked (see below)
Extravirgin olive oil
2 onions
2 leeks
2 carrots
2 sticks celery
1/2 savoy cabbage
Half head of cavolo nero (Tuscan kale)
2 potatoes
10 mushrooms
Other seasonal vegetables (winter squash etc) – a handful
1 litre/2 pints vegetable stock
A handful of dried pasta, either small shapes or broken up spaghetti
Salt, pepper
Pesto sauce