How to Prepare Perfect Not-exactly Minestrone Soup

Not-exactly Minestrone Soup.

You can cook Not-exactly Minestrone Soup using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Not-exactly Minestrone Soup

1. It's of Oil.
2. You need of onion, chopped.
3. You need of garlic, chopped.
4. Prepare of tomato purée.
5. You need of leek, sliced.
6. You need of carrots, diced.
7. Prepare of pepper, deseeded and diced.
8. Prepare of chestnut mushrooms, chopped.
9. Prepare of cherry tomatoes, halved.
10. You need of tin chopped tomatoes.
11. It's of vegetable stock. “Marigold” or stock cubes fine.
12. Prepare of dried pasta. I’ve used Trofie but otherwise break large types of pasta into pieces.
13. Prepare of tin cannelloni beans, drained.
14. You need of cabbage in strips. The core stalk has also been used, diced.
15. It's of each dried oregano and thyme.
16. You need of dried basil.
17. It's of Grated Parmesan cheese.

Not-exactly Minestrone Soup instructions

1. Heat the oil in a stock pot or large saucepan. Gently fry the onion for 3 minutes, only stirring to avoid sticking..
2. Add the garlic and fry for a further minute. Then stir in the tomato purée, pepper, mushrooms and the leek and continue to fry gently for another 2 minutes..
3. Stir in the carrots and continue gently frying for 2 minutes or until all the vegetables are nicely softened but not browned. Add the cherry tomatoes and give it all another gentle stir..
4. Add the tinned tomatoes and the stock. Gently but throughly stir, add the oregano, thyme and basil, bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer, put a lid on and cook for 15 minutes..
5. Add the beans and the pasta, stir and continue to cook until the pasta is cooked, around 8-12 minutes..
6. Stir in the cabbage and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Then season to taste and serve piping hot, with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese..