Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, creamy minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Minestrone Soup with Tortellini is a veggie packed, filling and oh so comforting soup that's sure to satisfy on a cold fall day! It's hearty, creamy and deliciously flavorful. It's hearty, creamy and deliciously flavorful.

Creamy Minestrone Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Creamy Minestrone Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have creamy minestrone soup using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Minestrone Soup:

1. Make ready 1 Tbsp olive oil
2. Prepare 1/2 cup chopped onion
3. Get 1 clove minced garlic
4. Get 2 1/2 cups beef broth
5. Take 1-14 ounce can tomato sauce
6. Make ready 1-14 ounce can kidney beans
7. Get 1 cup water
8. Prepare 2 diced carrots
9. Take 1 stalk diced celery
10. Make ready 2 small chopped potatoes
11. Prepare 1 chopped zucchini
12. Take 1/2 tsp basil
13. Get 1/2 cup small shell shaped pasta
14. Take 2 Tbsp flour
15. Get 2 cups milk
16. Take to taste Salt and pepper
17. Take Grated parmesan cheese (optional)
18. Take 4 slices bacon cooked and crumbled (optional)

The way we make this minestrone soup creamy is by taking a whole can of white beans and pureeing it in the food processor before adding it to the slow cooker. This faux cream is pumped up by a showering of Parmesan Cheese. A Note about This Minestrone Soup This is a very good minestrone soup. It is a little unusual to add cream (I think) but it was very very good.

Steps to make Creamy Minestrone Soup:

1. Saute onion and garlic in olive oil.
2. Stir in beef broth, tomato sauce, kidney beans, water, carrots, celery, potatoes and basil. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
3. Add pasta and zucchini. Cover and simmer 10 minutes longer or until pasta is tender.
4. Stir a small amount of milk into flour to make a paste; gradually stir in remaining milk. Add to soup mixture. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture boils and thickens a bit. Add salt and pepper to taste.
5. Sprinkle bacon bits and parmesan cheese over each serving if desired.
6. Enjoy!

I made it up to the puree step the night before. It was very tasty after the puree and I had not added any seasonings yet! It does make a lot so I froze some. Needless to say pictures needed a makeover, however the recipe was tip-top. Pancetta (optional) - since minestrone is a vegetable soup it's a perfect meal for lent.

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