I do love a pot of minestrone. THIS one, is soooo good. As I am writing this, I have decided to add this to my menu for the week ahead. It has cooled down a little on my side of the world, and this is just the comforting bowl of goodness to make it feel like winter is just around the corner but that it is all going to be OK.
It will feed a family, add more pasta if you need to feed hungry teenagers, cue the focaccia or bread and enjoy. To make it vegetarian is completely easy, just omit the bacon and there you have it. Comforting midweek eating. (It will also stay really hot in the Thermomix bowl were you to make it in advance, then pick the kids up from soccer, piano lessons etc.)
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Fagoli al Pomodoro (Beans and Tomato)
Hearty Chickpea Minestrone Soup
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Need
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 red onion halved
- 200 Grams bacon, diced
- 2 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 1 x 400 Gram crushed tomatoes tinned
- 700 Grams liquid stock of choice
- 2 stalks celery, sliced
- A few mushrooms, sliced
- 1 carrot, diced
- 1 potato, diced
- 1 Tablespoon coconut sugar
- 1 Tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 100 Grams tomato paste
- 1 x 400 Gram Red Kidney Beans tinned
- 250 Grams Penne Pasta or other small pasta of choice, cooked al dente
- shaved parmesan and lemon zest to garnish
- a few flat leaf parsley leaves
- basil leaves
Do
- 1
Place garlic, onion, bacon and EVOO into Thermomix bowl and chop 3 sec/speed 6.
- 2
Scrape down sides of bowl and sauté 5 min/Varoma/ Reverse/speed 1.
- 3
Add all remaining ingredients except beans, pasta and garnishes.
- 4
Cook 20 min/100°C/Reverse/speed 1.
- 5
Add beans, stir through with spatula and allow to rest in the Thermomix bowl for at least 10 minutes prior to serving with the cooked pasta stirred through, the parmesan, lemon zest and herbs.
- 6
For a vegetarian option, omit the bacon. Add more veggies of choice, though this makes a lot.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
