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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I love soup. Even when I am watching what I eat, I still make my low carb Green Veggie Soup<\/a>. Growing up, my father was the chief soup maker in our house. He would start making soup around lunchtime, just as the cold front moved over Pretoria in winter. He used to make thick beefy soups that would take hours to cook. But when supper came around, we would happily tuck into bread and soup that would fill our stomachs and warm us up at the same time. I will definitely post a recipe for one of his hearty beef soups soon. In the meantime, and since it is only early autumn, I will rather offer a lighter soup, like my Quick Minestrone Soup.<\/p>\n

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Bottom-of-the-fridge soup<\/h4>\n

There are hundreds of Minestrone recipes on the internet – no two totally alike. Minestrone soup<\/a> is usually a brothy vegetable soup with seasonal vegetables, onions, tomatoes, beans and pasta. And in that little description is the beauty of it: you can put in whatever you have! There are recipes that add meat, but most are vegetarian, adding the beans and pasta to give it some bulk. And that’s why I came to love Minestrone Soup – what can be nicer than veggies, beans and pasta in a tomato-based broth on a cold day? It’s a meal in one bowl. And if you keep it vegetarian, you literally need to only start your soup 45 minutes before dinner! So my recipe is really just a suggestion and you can add whatever veggies you have and can tolerate in a soup.<\/p>\n

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Full of beans<\/h4>\n

Traditionally Barlotti beans are used in Minestrone but I have seen many other beans mentioned in recipes. I have chosen to use plain baked beans in tomato sauce. The sweetness in the baked bean sauce combines well with the tomato puree in the soup. It’s one of those things where I had a “taste profile” in my head of what I wanted my soup to taste like and this combination achieves that. You are welcome to use whatever beans you have at hand. The pasta is also your choice. I sometimes collect bits of leftover uncooked pasta in a jar that I mix up and use for soup. You can leave out the pasta if you want to keep it low carb. You should then also not eat your Quick Minestrone Soup with crusty sourdough bread as I intend to!<\/p>\n

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Quick Minestrone Soup<\/h2>\n
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A hearty Minestrone Soup with seasonal vegetables, tomatoes, beans and pasta<\/span><\/div>\n
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Prep Time<\/span>10 minutes<\/span><\/span> mins<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Cook Time<\/span>35 minutes<\/span><\/span> mins<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n
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Course: <\/span>Soup<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n
Servings: <\/span>4<\/span> servings<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n
Author: <\/span>Melby<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n

Ingredients<\/h3>