Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, quinoa minestrone "soup". It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Quinoa Minestrone "Soup" is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Quinoa Minestrone "Soup" is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Traditional minestrone soup includes pasta noodles, but I replaced the noodles with quinoa in order to keep the soup gluten-free. You can easily re-tradition this recipe by adding noodles and skipping the quinoa. Enjoy your cozy, healthy winter soup! Add all ingredients except for the spinach leaves to the pot.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook quinoa minestrone "soup" using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Minestrone "Soup":
- Make ready cup of quinoa (around 150g I've used, that wasn't half cup)
- Make ready Around 1 liter of veggie stock
- Take spinach, chopped
- Prepare basil leaves, chopped
- Get onions, chopped
- Get medium potatoes, diced 🥔
- Make ready garlic, minced
- Take tomato, diced 🍅
- Prepare carrots (3/4 cup), diced
- Take Green beans (3/4 cup), diced
- Prepare peek sliced
- Make ready cup celery, diced
- Make ready zucchini, peeled and diced
- Prepare Olive oil,
- Make ready Salt and pepper
This soup is sure to warm you up and make the whole family happy. Well, it's March and it's still winter. (insert side-eye from this summer-loving mama) It's still cold and actually today, there's snow falling. Cold days call for warm soup and crispy bread! To make a vegetarian minestrone soup, we use chopped carrots, canned tomatoes, chopped potatoes, and beans.
Instructions to make Quinoa Minestrone "Soup":
- So first of all this recipe is a bit of experiment. I definitely wouldn't call it a soup, as it became quite thick even though I have added some splash of water during cooking, and also I would probably change a few things next time. I will write some conclusions as a last 'step' so I won't forget…
- First things first, let's dice and prepare everything. On this picture, the 2 darker green bowls contain the "spinach-basil base", in the next step I will write down how I made that and this picture also contains the cooked quinoa.
- Spinach-basil base: so we got the chopped spinach and basil leaves, and about a liter of stock. We mix them and blend it as smooth as possible. I've used a normal hand blender.
- So just to don't forget, as a step please cook the quinoa, if you haven't done already.
- On a bit of oil sauté the onions over medium heat for a few minutes until they get golden a bit,then add the garlic and the diced tomato, bit of salt and pepper and cook for a few minutes.
- Add the carrots, green beans, leek and celery then mix well.
- Poor in the blended Spinach-basil base and add the quinoa to the pot. Season to taste. Cook on medium heat for 15 minutes.
- Finally, add the zucchini and the potatoes and cook for another 15 minutes, or until the veggies reached how you like them (super soft or a bit al dente? 😊) finally if needed season again with salt and pepper.
- Finally, serve it!
- And as I was cooking some notes here what I tried to differently. I definitely need more liquid or less filling as at the end, especially on the next day it looks more like a veggie stew. I also wonder how it could be a bit better looking. Advises welcome! 😊
Cold days call for warm soup and crispy bread! To make a vegetarian minestrone soup, we use chopped carrots, canned tomatoes, chopped potatoes, and beans. Most veg minestrone recipes call for pasta, and we oftentimes will make it with pasta too, but for today's recipe we used quinoa. It's great to make a soup with quinoa because it cooks quickly and adds protein to the dish. Healthy Minestrone Soup is made with quinoa instead of pasta.
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