Hearty Minestrone Soup is filling and Delicious! This classic Italian soup, with meat, veggies, tomatoes, beans, and macaroni is certain to please.
Hearty Minestrone Soup is filling and DELICIOUS! This classic Italian soup, with meat, veggies, tomatoes, beans, and macaroni is sure to please.

The get-go time I had this hearty minestrone soup was when my Father-in-Police died over 40 years agone. A friend of the family unit was there for his memorial, and fixed a massive pot of this soup for the family unit at my in-laws home later on the service.

The day of his memorial service was very cold and snowy (January), so this hot, succulent, filling meal was a God-send, as well as a sweet, thoughtful "gift" to our family unit!  A long-time family friend named Veda Quatro fabricated the soup, gave me her recipe, and we've enjoyed this hearty, flavour-packed soup e'er since that day!

The recipe makes 12 servings, and is CRAZY DELICIOUS. It takes a bit of fourth dimension and prep work to make, but honestly, the results are wonderful, and will exist worth your time! If you will only be serving a few people, y'all will savour having the leftovers for lunches or a quick repast! YUM!

Four Steps To Making Hearty Minestrone Soup!

There are basically iv steps to making this soup. Cook the stew meat in broth, cook basis beef, onions and spices, melt the veggies, and add the final batch of veggies and pasta to the soup 30 minutes before serving!

It'south really not that hard to make… honest! Hither'south how to cook a large batch of this yummy soup:

Step #1 – Cooking The Stew Meat

Identify v quarts of water into a HUGE soup pot. Add the beef burgoo cubes and the stew meat. Notation: You lot tin can substitute 5 quarts beef broth for water and bouillon, if more user-friendly. Cook on high for about 20 minutes, or until the stew meat is cooked through. Once done, turn off rut, and transfer the stew meat with a slotted spoon to a plate to remainder.

NOTE: Trust me… you will want to use a LARGE soup pot or divide the recipe between two standard sized soup pots for this recipe, because information technology makes a LOT of soup, once completed!

Stew meat is cooked in beef broth in a large stock pot.

Step #two

Heat the oil in a large skillet on medium heat. Add the basis beef, tuckered stew meat, chopped onion, pepper, and chopped parsley. Cook this mixture until the basis beefiness is browned and fully cooked through.

Every bit presently every bit the ground beef is fully cooked, add the minced garlic, and continue to cook, stirring often, for i minute.

Stew meat, ground beef, onions, and parsley are browned in skillet.

Minced garlic is added to the browned meat mixture.

Bleed the grease from the skillet (discard) and then add together the cooked beef and onion mixture into the broth and stir, to combine.

Cooked beef and onion mixture is added to beef broth.

Step #3

On to the adjacent step! Gather the sliced celery, carrots and shredded cabbage, and add them to the pot of hearty minestrone soup! Pour in the canned diced tomatoes, Italian seasoning, and then requite everything a practiced stir, to combine. Add the salt, stir then taste the soup, and add together  boosted salt, if desired, to accommodate your personal taste.

Go on to melt the hearty minestrone soup (uncovered) on medium heat for virtually 30 minutes, or until the veggies become tender. The soup liquid will reduce in volume slightly every bit the mixture cooks.

NOTE: If making soup ahead for serving later in the twenty-four hour period… turn off the estrus after this step, and let soup sit down until thirty minutes earlier you want to serve, then go to Pace #iv.

Carrots, celery and green cabbage are prepped for the minestrone soup. Hearty minestrone soup is cooking away in a large stock pot.

Step #4 – The FINAL Pace Earlier Serving

Most 30 minutes Before serving, add the uncooked macaroni noodles, frozen peas, kidney beans and zucchini slices to the pot of soup.

Cook the hearty minestrone soup on medium oestrus (still uncovered) for xxx minutes, and then information technology volition be ready to serve! The goop will slightly reduce as information technology continues to melt, and the macaroni will fully cook in the soup!

Zucchini, peas, and uncooked macaroni noodles are added to the soup. The macaroni noodles cook fully in the hot minestrone soup.

Time To Serve Hearty Minestrone Soup!

After thirty minutes your huge pot of homemade, hearty minestrone soup is set up to serve! Give it a final taste, and add additional common salt, if desired. Ladle the steaming soup into bowls, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese, and serve!

A bowl of hearty minestrone soup, topped with grated Parmesan cheese. Beef, veggies macaroni, tomatoes and beans are featured in hearty minestrone soup.

I actually hope you volition requite this hearty minestrone soup a attempt! It is fabled, and feeds a small village, or provides you with quite a few leftover bowls of delicious soup! YUM!!! Take a great mean solar day.

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Recipe adapted from: Family friend Veda Quatro's original recipe (1979)

Hearty Minestrone Soup is filling and Delicious! This classic Italian soup, with meat, veggies, tomatoes, beans, and macaroni is sure to please.

Category: Entree, Soup

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: hearty minestrone soup

Servings: 12

Calories Per Serving: 241 kcal

  • 5 quarts water
  • ane½ pounds beefiness stew meat , cut into cubes
  • 4 large beef burgoo cubes
  • 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
  • ½ pound footing beef
  • 1 medium brownish onion , chopped
  • ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • ½ loving cup fresh parsley , finely chopped
  • ii cloves garlic , minced
  • i cup celery , sliced
  • ii cups green cabbage , shredded
  • ane½ cups carrots , sliced or diced
  • 43.5 ounces diced, canned tomatoes (=three fourteen.5 ounce cans)
  • 1½ teaspoons Italian seasoning
  • 2 teaspoons table salt , plus additional, to desired taste
  • 1 cup zucchini , sliced thin, then cut slices in one-half
  • i cup frozen peas , exercise not thaw
  • fifteen.5 ounces kidney beans (canned) , rinsed and drained
  • ii cups elbow macaroni , uncooked
  • grated Parmesan cheese for garnish (optional)

  1. STEP #one: Place 5 quarts of h2o into a HUGE soup pot. Add the beef burgoo cubes and the stew meat. NOTE: Substitute 5 quarts beef goop for water and bouillon, if more convenient. Cook on high for 20 minutes, or until stew meat is cooked through. Once washed, plow off rut, and transfer stew meat with a slotted spoon to a plate to balance.

  2. STEP #2: Heat oil in a large skillet on medium heat. Add ground beefiness, drained stew meat, chopped onions, black pepper, and parsley. Cook until ground beef is browned and cooked through. Add minced garlic, and cook, stirring often, for one minute. Bleed grease from skillet (discard) and then add this mixture to the broth and stir to combine.

  3. Step #3: Add celery, carrots and cabbage to the pot of soup. Cascade in canned diced tomatoes and Italian seasoning; stir, to combine. Add together salt, stir and so taste the soup, and add additional salt, if desired. Go along to cook soup (uncovered) on medium heat for 30 minutes, or until the veggies become tender. The soup liquid will reduce in volume slightly equally the mixture cooks. NOTE: If making soup ahead for serving later in the twenty-four hours -plow off heat after this pace, and permit soup sit until 30 minutes earlier you desire to serve, so go to Footstep #4.

  4. STEP #iv: 30 minutes BEFORE serving, add the uncooked macaroni noodles, frozen peas, kidney beans and zucchini slices to the soup. Cook on medium loftier rut (nevertheless uncovered) for xxx minutes, stirring occasionally, and then it's ready to serve! Requite it a final taste; add additional salt, if desired. Ladle soup into bowls, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese, and serve! Enjoy!

TIP: The original writer of this recipe (Veda) told me this tip: If you need to stretch out any leftover soup, but add another tin can of diced tomatoes or kidney beans, to get in go further!

Nutrition Facts

Hearty Minestrone Soup

Corporeality Per Serving (1 g)

Calories 241 Calories from Fatty 54

% Daily Value*

Fat 6g nine%

Saturated Fat 3g 19%

Cholesterol 13mg four%

Sodium 974mg 42%

Potassium 689mg 20%

Carbohydrates 36g 12%

Fiber 7g 29%

Sugar 9g 10%

Poly peptide 12g 24%

Vitamin A 3271IU 65%

Vitamin C 26mg 32%

Calcium 82mg 8%

Atomic number 26 3mg 17%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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