3. Why Minestrone Soup?
● Among all cuisines Italian is my favorite! I love all
the flavors of the fresh herbs that are commonly used
in Italian dishes including basil, sage, rosemary, and
thyme. Along with the aromatic flavors of the herbs I
love eating carbs, and Italian dishes can be full of
them with all they yummy pastas and breads! Since
majority of the time I always find myself going out to
eat Italian because I am too scared to ruin a recipe, I
saw this as an opportunity to finally try a challenging
Italian recipe. With the cold weather lately I knew I
wanted make some soup, so I thought what better
than a hearty Italian soup! I rarely order soup when I
go out and eat Italian, in fact I had only tried
Minestrone soup once it was a long time ago, so I
was excited to try a new Italian dish.
4. Ingredients
● I already had some of the
ingredients, but the rest of the
ingredients I was able to
purchase at Windmill Farms, a
small grocery store in my
neighborhood.
5. Ingredients (cont.)
● Like I mentioned, the ingredients were pretty easy to
obtain, I already had most of the vegetables, like
onion, garlic, celery, spinach, and carrots. The
ingredient I had never purchased was Pancetta,
which is pretty much a Italian bacon. The herbs that
I used were Sage, bay leaves, and Rosemary. The rest
of the ingredients, chicken stock, beans, crushed
tomatoes, tortellini pasta, mushrooms, and parmesan
cheese I got at the local grocery store
6. The Process
● I began by prepping all the
vegetables, dicing the onion,
celery, onion, carrots,
mushrooms, garlic, and the
pancetta and setting them aside.
7. The Process (cont.)
● Next I began cooking, first browning the Pancetta,
then the mushrooms and garlic until it was
caramelized.
● After I removed it from the pot and cooked the rest
of the vegetables and herbs
● When the vegetables were soften I added the rest of
the ingredients: beans, spinach, tomatoes, and
chicken stock and let it cook for about 30 min.
10. The samplers
● I was very amazed with the end result, it tasted so
good and flavorful! I loved it!
● The flavor of the rosemary, bay leaves, and sage
were so strong and complemented the sweet taste of
the Pancetta and vegetables so well! It was the herbs
that gave the soup the Italian flavor, which is what I
love about Italian food!
● My roommate Danielle who has been to Italy and
had Minestrone soup there said it tasted very similar
to the Minestrone she had in Florence!
● This is definitely a recipe for my cook book, I will
make this soup a couple more times this winter!
