Kitchen appliances and utensils
- kitchen knife;
- cutting board;
- peeler;
- Kitchen Scales;
- tablespoon;
- ladle;
- stewpan with a lid;
- hob.
Ingredients
- Potato - 180-200 g
- Pelati Tomatoes - 400 g
- Canned white beans - 400 g
- Green beans - 200-225 g
- Savoy cabbage - 225 g
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Red onion - 1 pc.
- Celery - 2 stalks
- Rosemary - 1 sprig
- Basil - 30 g
- Hard cheese (Parmesan) - 60 g
- Vegetable oil (olive) - 50 ml
- Garlic - 1-2 cloves
- Salt, ground black pepper - to taste
Step cooking
Cut vegetables
- Dissolve in small cubes two fleshy stalks of celery.
- Dice the onion into very small cubes.
- Also finely chop two medium carrots.
- Similarly (in small cubes) cut 3-4 potatoes (about 180-200 g).
- Crush with a flat side of a knife 1-2 cloves of garlic and chop into crumbs.
- Savoy cabbage (225 g) is divided into petals and chopped similarly to other vegetables.
- Cut into slices, 2-2.5 cm long, green bean pods.
- Tear off small leaves from a sprig of rosemary and chop them finely (the stem is not placed in the soup).
- Chop leaves with 4-5 branches (about 30 g) of young basil in small strips.
- With 400 g Pelati tomatoes, peel and finely chop.
Cook soup
- Pour 50 ml of vegetable (preferably olive) oil into a high saucepan, and put on a large fire.
- Run vegetables in warming oil: blue onions, carrots, celery and chopped rosemary.
- While stirring, slightly salt the vegetables and add black ground pepper to taste.
- Fry vegetables for about 8 minutes, then add chopped potatoes, chopped Savoy cabbage and chopped Pelati tomatoes.
- Mix everything again and pour 1.75 liters of filtered water into the contents of the pan.
- Once the broth boils, put in a pan 400 g canned white beans and chopped fresh green beans.
- After boiling, reduce the flame of the burner, and cook the soup for 15 minutes.
- After a quarter of an hour, put chopped garlic in a pan and add basil leaves, sliced in thin strips.
- Stir soup, add salt and pepper if necessary. Pour into serving plates and serve hot, garnishing whole portions of basil with each serving and grating Parmesan cheese on a small grater in each plate.
Video recipe
The plot proposed for viewing demonstrates a master class cooking classic Italian first vegetable dishes - Minestrone soup. Here, the order of laying vegetables in the soup is shown in detail, as well as the rules for serving Italian dishes to the table.
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