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.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup Barley pearl dry roasted
- 1 cup Onion fine chopped
- 1 medium Tomato chopped
- 1/3 cup French beans chopped
- 1/2 cup Cabbage
- 2 tbsp Celery stick chopped
- 1 tbsp Garlic chopped
- 1 Green zucchini chopped
- 1/3 cup Carrot chopped
- 1/3 cup Fresh spinach chopped
- 1/4 cup basil leaves chopped
- 1/2 tsp Crushed Black Pepper
- 3 tbsp Oil
- Salt to taste
- 4 cup Vegetable stock or water
Instructions
- Dry roast barley pearl at medium heat till aromatic or slightly brown color. Once its done, soak it into water for half an hour.
- Chop all vegetables and keep it aside.
- Heat oil in a kadhai, add onion, celery, garlic and little salt. Saute it till slightly brown color in 10-12 minutes. Add cabbage, carrot, beans in to it. Saute it for another 8 minutes till vegetables gets tender.
- Add tomato, spinach and zucchini and saute it for 5 minutes.
- Add soaked barley, vegetable stock or water in to it, stir it. Cover the mix and simmer it for about 25 minutes until barley gets cook nicely.
- Once its done, add chopped basil leaves, pepper powder and cook for another 2 minutes. Turn off the heat. Leave it covered.
- Healthy barley minestrone soup is ready to be served.
- Serve it hot with your favorite bread.
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