Carol’s Minestrone Soup

By Steve-3

Ingredients

• Make Stock:
• Boil together in 6 – 8 cups of water for 20 minutes.
• 1 carrot
• 1 celery stalk
• 1 part of a green pepper
• bunch of cilantro
• Maybe some veggie bullion (but I usually don’t)
• Dump veggies, keep water for soup.
• 2 15 oz. cans of kidney beans
• 1 15 oz can of chick peas
• 1 28 oz. can of diced tomatoes
• 1 cup chopped onions
• 3 carrots, diced
• 1 or 2 celery stalks, diced
• the rest of the green pepper, diced
• pinch of thyme, basil, rosemary, oregano
• 1 or 2 garlic cloves, chopped
• 1 potato diced
• a whole bunch of swiss chard
• some uncooked spaghetti

Preparation

Step 1

In olive oil sauté spices, garlic, then add onion, carrot, celery, green pepper, and last, potato

add beans, chick peas, broth, tomatoes, cook for a half hour.
Last ten minutes add swiss chard, spaghetti or noodles, and I usually add frozen green peas. Cook
for ten minutes, maybe 12.