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Barley Minestrone Soup

Minestrone soup recipe is an Italian soup recipe which is prepared with ingredients like chicken, vegetable, beans, pasta or grain like barley or Quinoa. This recipe is a vegetarian barley minestrone soup. The soup is generally served with Italian bread and salads. This is a very light recipe and good for dinner or lunch.

Focaccia Bread

Focaccia Bread is a Italian bread which is flat and oven baked. The bread is generally topped with various herbs. Rosemary gives a wonderful aroma to bread. The bread is served with olive oil and can also be topped with olives, mushrooms, green onion and tomatoes. It tastes very good and certainly different than any normal bread. It is used as side during the lunch or dinner.

Pesto Sauce

Pesto sauce is prepared from basil leaves, garlic and pine nut. If pine nut is not available,  you can use cashew nuts or pistachios. The sauce is used to make pasta and sandwich dishes. This sauce gives a tingling taste to pasta and makes it little different than regular pasta. The sauce can be also used in combination with tomato sauce for pasta. Since there is not much spices in it, kids too would love this pasta.