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Bron's version Minestrone
« on: May 22, 2009, 12:41:49 am »
Minestrone:
serves 4-5:
Ingredients:
500g veg (I use up all leftovers, carrot, small turnip, courgette, parsnip, artichoke hearts, fresh green asparagus, peas, green beans, peppers, celery)
50g olive oil
50g onion
20g tomato pure (tomato past to most of us) or tomato pizza sauce (I always have in the fridge!)
1 clove garlic
50g bacon or serrano ham (in bits, can be chopped in THX in a few short turbo blasts)
1000g THX chicken or veg stock concentrate (I use veg)
pepper
50g round grain rice
50g grated parmesan cheese
50g butter
Chopped flat parsley
Preparation:
Grate cheese.
Place all the veg in THX and chop 5 seconds Speed 4. (Except peas, artichoke and asparagus as these look nice hand chopped/whole) Keep aside.
Place garlic & onion in THX, blitz 2 seconds Speed 5, Add oil and bacon/ham, program 5 mins 100º speed 2.
Add stock and program 8 mins 100º speed 2. (I skip this step by adding boiling water from kettle!) ;)
Add remaining vegetables, tomato, black pepper and rice and program 15 mins 100º reverse, speed 1.
Pour into serving bowl, add parsley, parmesan and butter. Stir.


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Tips/Hints:
I find it doesnt need salt, as I use THX stock and of course the bacon/ham is quite salty.
You can use small pasta shapes instead of rice. Both are lovely!
Wonderful recipe to clear out fridge! I make it every couple of weeks... ;)

Members' comments
JD - This is perfect for us as DH has never liked tomato based minestrone which most other recipes are. Did rice today but next time will try the small pasta shapes instead.

salval -  It was delicious. Thanks for a lovely recipe.




« Last Edit: July 04, 2014, 08:56:49 am by judydawn »
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2009, 12:54:08 am »
Thanks Bron :-*
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2009, 05:15:29 am »
hmmm i think i've jsut worked out what is for dinner tonight! thanks bron :D
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2009, 09:41:13 am »
amanda, is it really just 20g of tomato puree?
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2009, 10:09:07 am »
Yeah, mine is really concentrated but its only to colour it a bit! ;)
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2009, 10:19:05 am »
ahhh maybe it's what we call tomato paste? i ended up adding in a whole jar of pasta sauce lol it's delicious though the kids are all in meltdown over it - too many veg hehe
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2009, 10:27:58 am »
Great recipe and yes - always a good one for using up those bits that didn't make it into the dish they were originally purchased for -!!!
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2009, 07:11:42 am »
I'm letting you know Bron, you just hit Thermomix big time!!  ;D Courtesy of Brazen...all her fault!
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2009, 07:51:51 am »
woohoo!
thanks tenina and thanks bron!!!
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2009, 02:19:19 pm »
lovely work ladies!!
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2009, 05:10:06 pm »
WOOHOO! Have gone all red...to match my hair! ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2009, 01:46:04 am »
After so many excellent postings Bron, you thoroughly deserve to have something in print and good on you Karen for putting Bron's recipe in for it. :-* :-*
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #12 on: June 10, 2009, 05:20:08 pm »
Thanks JD blushing even more!!!! :-)) :-)) :-)) :-))
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #13 on: June 10, 2009, 11:39:37 pm »
:D
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Re: Bron's version Minestrone
« Reply #14 on: June 11, 2009, 10:43:21 am »
Made this one today Bron and it is perfect for us as DH has never liked tomato based minestrone which most other recipes are. Did rice today but next time will try the small pasta shapes instead.  Thanks for posting it :-*
Judy from North Haven, South Australia

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