Corrigan's Minestrone

I loosely followed this recipe and am excited to have found the combo of ingredients similar to the old Minestrone soup recipe that I had clipped from the Vancouver Sun eons ago but have now lost. Unfortunately my pot was not big enough to accommodate all the ingredients! I left out the pasta and still the soup ate like a stew! I used an 820g can of diced tomatoes, no tomato paste, garbanzo beans instead of kidney and two onions instead of one. My cooking order was a lot different too: sauteed onions for 3 min, added garlic and continued cooking for another min or two. Added chopped celery and the basil and oregano and cooked for three mins with the lid on. Added the can of tomatoes, two cans of water and the vegetable broth, followed by all the veggies except the corn. Added some freshly ground pepper and a bit of salt. About 40 minutes before serving I added the garbanzo beans and corn kernels. I would have added the pasta at this point had I used it.

This is a very good soup! I added and took some ingredients off , I went by what I had on hand. One thing that is very important is to cook your macaroni before hand and then add it to the soup, or it will absorb all your liquid. I didn't use potato, added 1 c. cooked macaroni shells, mushrooms & spinach. Lovely! Very filling and good for you! Also did it all in a crock pot so no need for the oil! :)

This was delicious and super filling! (I omitted the pasta)

Made a few changes with this. Used dried herbs instead of fresh, left out the celery, added an additional can of veggie broth, added a few shakes of red pepper flakes, and used only 1 cup of macaroni (uncooked). This is very good! Quick and easy to make.

I used homemade vegetable stock that I made first. This soup is very healthy and satisfying. I used almost double the stock as written and only half the pasta. It came out great. I added zucchini; any vegetable you like will work fine. Cannot wait to make this again.

Recipe was very easy to make and it makes ALOT! I would recomend to cut your vegetable into small pieces especially the carrots and potatoes. As for the rest I doubled the broth and cut 1/2 cup of the pasta out, even this did not work as previously recomended I would go with 1/2 the pasta (and most importantly pre-cook it) I love the pasta in minestrone and it was too much for me! As for the cooking instead of slow simmering I brought the soup up to a boil reduced to a simmer and covered and it cut about 10 minutes off of the cooking time.