Easy Vegetarian Recipes

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Kellie’s Minestrone Soup Recipe – Easy & Vegetarian

Kellie was absolutely right: this is a fantastic recipe to help clean out your fridge before they start to go bad. Do not let the long list of ingredients mislead you, they’re just the veggies you have hanging out in your fridge anyways. Kellie’s Minestrone Soup is a very easy vegetarian recipe that you might find yourself making about once a month or more when you looking at that full fridge wondering what you’re going to make.

Ingredients:

• 1 box container of vegetable stock
  
• 1 ½ C water
• 1 lg can crushed tomatoes
  
• 1 lg can whole tomatoes w/ the juice (break apart into sauce)
• 1 can navy or white Italian bean
• 1 can kidney bean (pour in bean juices too)
• 4 lg carrots sliced
• 4 stalks sliced celery w/ vein removed
• 3 mini zucchinis quartered and sliced
• 4 small yellow onions cubed
• 1 bunch green onions sliced
• 2 handfuls of fresh spinach stem removed
• 7 med red potatoes (med to small cubes)
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 Tbs basil
• tsp oregano
• 1 tsp rosemary (fresh if you have it)
• ½ tsp salt
• Ground fresh black pepper
• 2 shakes red pepper
• ½ tsp onion powder

Directions:

Put all ingredients in a lg thick bottomed stock pot and simmer for 2 hours minimum to 6 hours max. Just serve when you’re ready.

Serve over med shells w/ fresh baked wheat or other hearty bread. Garnish w/ Parmesan.

Substitutes:

Play around! This is a great clear out your fridge or pick your favorites from the farmer’s market sort of recipe and sooooo easy. It’s forgiving enough that you can swap out fresh for canned or vice versa too.

Kellie’s Comments:

I love making this on a weekend when I’m bumming around gardening or just relaxing around the house. The great thing is it’s ready when I am and just gets better as it simmers away. YUM!

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