Tortellini Minestrone

AUTHOR
Brooke Calhoun
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 2
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 500 g Soup meat (breast meat)
  • 1 Onion
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • 250 g French beans
  • 500 g Savoy cabbage
  • 3 stalks of celery
  • 1 Garlic clove
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Olive oil
  • 200 g dried tortellini
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 1 Stalk leek (leek)
  • 2 Tomatoes
  • 1 can(s) (425 ml) Tomatoes
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 2 stem(s) Basil
  • 1 TABLESPOON Balsamic vinegar

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash the soup meat. Onion wash, halve. Put soup meat, 1 1/2 litre water, onion and bay leaf in a pot and cook for about 1 hour. Clean, wash and break the beans into pieces.

  2. 2

    Clean, wash and cut the savoy cabbage into strips. Clean, wash and slice the celery. Peel garlic and chop finely. Take the meat out of the broth and let it cool down a little. Pour stock through a sieve.

  3. 3

    Heat the oil in a pot. Sauté garlic, beans, celery and cabbage in it. Add stock, bring to the boil and cook for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, cook tortellini in boiling salted water according to package instructions.

  4. 4

    Cut the soup meat into pieces. Clean, wash and cut leek into rings. Wash, clean and cut tomatoes into small pieces. Drain can tomatoes and chop them a little. 5 minutes before the end of the cooking time add meat, leek, tomatoes and canned tomatoes with juice to the cabbage.

  5. 5

    Season to taste with salt and pepper. Drain tortellini and fold in. Wash the basil, pluck the leaves from the stalks and, except for a few for garnishing, cut into strips. Season to taste with salt, pepper and vinegar.

  6. 6

    Arrange minestrone in small bowls, garnish with basil.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
570 kcal
CARBS
43 g
FATS
28 g
PROTEINS
36 g

Categories & Tags

Main DishesSummerSoupsStew