Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Chicken Minestrone Soup

Chicken Minestrone Soup.

You can cook Chicken Minestrone Soup using 28 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Minestrone Soup

1. Prepare of Step one.
2. Prepare of oil.
3. It's of each chopped onion.
4. It's of garlic, minced.
5. It's of chopped celery.
6. You need of each chopped carrots.
7. Prepare of Step two.
8. It's of dry pint Cherry tomatoes-diced or 1 -14. 5 ounce can of diced.
9. It's of habanero pepper finely chopped (optional... we like it spicy:).
10. You need of red bell pepper-small dice.
11. You need of yellow bell pepper small dice.
12. You need of diced cooked chicken.
13. Prepare of tomato paste.
14. Prepare of each potato -small diced.
15. Prepare of chicken broth (stock).
16. It's of parsley.
17. Prepare of salt.
18. You need of black pepper.
19. Prepare of thyme.
20. It's of oregano.
21. It's of dry basil.
22. You need of Step three.
23. You need of elbow macaroni.
24. Prepare of (14 ouces +/-) white kidney beans.
25. You need of broccoli florets.
26. You need of small cauliflower florets.
27. You need of asparagus stalks cut thinly on a bias.
28. It's of scallion cut on a bias –added as 2 minutes before the soup is done.

Chicken Minestrone Soup instructions

1. In a large pot over medium heat. Add onion, celery, garlic and carrots; sauté for 4 minutes..
2. Add tomatoes, peppers, diced chicken, tomato paste, potato, chicken broth, parsley, salt, pepper, thyme, oregano and basil to the pot. Bring to a boil, cover, and reduce heat. Simmer for approximately 15 minutes until vegetables are barely tender..
3. Add the macaroni,white kidney beans broccoli, cauliflower and asparagus and simmer for 15 minutes more. Adjust as needed seasoning..
4. Add the scallions 2 minutes before the soup is done..