Spinach Minestrone

Submitted by HokiesMom

"A nice twist to an old standby soup."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 2 quarts
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1 large sweet onion, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 4 cups low sodium vegetable broth (or chicken broth)
• 1 (16 ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed & drained
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes (undrained)
• 2 medium carrots, sliced
• 1⁄2 cup uncooked elbow macaroni
• 1⁄2 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 (12 ounce) package fresh Baby Spinach, chopped

directions

1. In a large saucepan coated with non-stick spray, saute onion and garlic until tender, about 5-8 minutes.
2. Add the broth, beans, tomatoes, carrots, macaroni and oregano.
3. Cook until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes.
4. Stir in chopped spinach and bring to a boil.
5. Remove from heat and let stand for 10 minutes.

Reviews

[Brooke the Cook in]

This is just a beautiful minestrone! I used tiny soup pasta and frozen spinach since fresh is a little expensive in WI during January. I doubled the tomatoes because we love 'em. I wouldn't hesitate to serve this pretty soup to guests.

 

[Dreamer in Ontario]

This is the perfect soup for a quick weeknight dinner. The only change I made was to use mixed beans which included both red and white kidney beans. Made for Culinary Quest 2019.

 

[Sauce Lover]

I made this recipe and instead of using canned tomatoes, I used one can of Rotel chopped tomatoes with diced chiles. Love that stuff. Adds alot of flavor. I used fresh minced garlic along with the onion, and used more oregano than called for. Other than using up a few green chiles that I found in the fridge which I minced up and added with the spinach, I didn't change a thing!!!!

 

[UmmBinat]

This is good. I love Minestrone. I may have changed proportions of ingredients but kept to the basic idea. I made ours gluten free using a good rice pasta, vidalia onion, I'm sure I used extra garlic, I actually did not have broth on hand so I used water, sea salt and added some leftover cut up chicken kebab to add flavour (next time I would use stock, but it did work this way anyhow), plus the rest of the called for ingredients. I would make this again. Made for ZWT7 Italy, for my team Food.Commandos

 

[Studentchef]

I just made this for lunch and it is so good. I never had minestrone soup with spinach, but I think the spinach added a nice touch to it.