MINESTRONE

Name: MINESTRONE
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 20 oz V-8 juice; 1 can 10.5 oz. beef consomme'; 3 1/4 cup water; 1 tsp sea salt; 1/2 tsp course black pepper; 1 tbsp italian seasoning; 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper; 1 tsp minced garlic; 2 can 15 oz. kidney beans; 1 can 15 oz. green beans; 1 can 15 oz. stewed tomatoes; 2 small sliced zucchini; 1 cup thinly sliced carrots; 1/2 cup thinly sliced celery; 1 cup shredded cabbage; 1/2 cup diced onion; 1 1/2 cup small shell pasta; 1 lb ground pork sausage

sandra53 @skw1551

Central Point, Oregon

I learned there are many variations to making minestrone. It was traditionally started with a beef base as a vegetable and pasta soup featuring a variety of legumes (beans) with kidney beans as a constant. Italian sausage, hamburger, plain pork sausage, or meatballs may be added.

sandra53 @skw1551

Central Point, Oregon

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Ingredients

45 mins

8 servings

liquids
20 ozV-8 juice
1 can10.5 oz. beef consomme'
3 1/4 cupwater
spices
1 tspsea salt
1/2 tspcourse black pepper
1 tbspitalian seasoning
1/4 tspcrushed red pepper
1 tspminced garlic
canned items
2 can15 oz. kidney beans
1 can15 oz. green beans
1 can15 oz. stewed tomatoes
fresh vegetables
2 smallsliced zucchini
1 cupthinly sliced carrots
1/2 cupthinly sliced celery
1 cupshredded cabbage
1/2 cupdiced onion
uncooked pasta
1 1/2 cupsmall shell pasta
meat
1 lbground pork sausage

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Steps

45 mins

1

Using a LARGE crockpot, place every thing BUT the uncooked pasta in the crockpot in the order of listed ingredients.
2

After everything but the pasta is in the crockpot, cook for 4 hours on crockpot "high" setting.
3

Prepare water in a sauce pan for boiling pasta. Add a tablespoon of olive oil and a pinch os salt to the water.
4

When water comes to a boil, drop pasta in and boil for 1 minute less than the "al dente" instructions on the package.
5

When pasta is done, rinse thoroughly through a strainer with COLD water and set it aside.
6

When soup has cooked for the 4 hours, add the cooked pasta quickly, and cook on crockpot high setting for another 1/2 hour.
7

At the end of cooking time, keep soup on crockpot "warm" setting until ready to serve. (Serve immediately when possible.)
8

Serve with garlic chessy bread.