Recipe: Perfect Creamy Minestrone Soup

Creamy Minestrone Soup.

You can have Creamy Minestrone Soup using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Creamy Minestrone Soup

1. You need of olive oil.
2. It's of chopped onion.
3. Prepare of minced garlic.
4. You need of beef broth.
5. You need of can tomato sauce.
6. Prepare of can kidney beans.
7. It's of water.
8. You need of diced carrots.
9. Prepare of diced celery.
10. You need of small chopped potatoes.
11. You need of chopped zucchini.
12. You need of basil.
13. Prepare of small shell shaped pasta.
14. Prepare of flour.
15. It's of milk.
16. You need of Salt and pepper.
17. You need of Grated parmesan cheese (optional).
18. It's of bacon cooked and crumbled (optional).

Creamy Minestrone Soup instructions

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!.