Minestrone Soup

Minestrone is a delicious and thick soup of Italian origin prepared with vegetables and often with an addition of pasta or rice. Heavy, nutritious, and scrumptious soup, Minestrone Soup is no less than a meal, with vegetables such as beans, carrots, celery, leafy vegetables, tomatoes, the deliciousness of pasta and cheese. The cuisine also can be made according to the taste of the meat lovers by adding pieces of boiled or cooked meat or bone stock instead of plain water or vegetable stock. There is no set recipe for Minestrone Soup as it can be readied with leftover vegetables with or without pasta. A good broth is the key for a flavorful and thick soup which gives it the authentic taste of Italian cuisine.

The word Minestrone is attested to the English language and means thick vegetable soup while it comes from the augmentative form of ‘minestra’ meaning ‘soup’ or more literally ‘that which is served’. Because of its origins and the absence of a fixed recipe, Minestrone is widely cooked across Italy in different variations, depending on the traditional cooking time, ingredients, and seasoning. It varies from a thick and dense soup with large quantities of boiled vegetables to a more brothy and soupy like consistency made with small chunks of lightly cooked vegetables or sometimes meat. It was originally made to use up the leftover vegetables and thus is a dynamic recipe that can be molded as per preferences and ingredients at hand. The tanginess of tomato-based soup with a scrumptious flavor of vegetables and the delicious taste of pasta that comes as a surprise is what makes Minestrone a one-of-a-kind cuisine that everyone must devour once.