minestrone soup

cheap and healthy filling soup

Ingredients

• 1 courgette diced
• 1 onion diced
• few new potatoes diced
• tin chopped tomatoes
• 1 clove garlic crushed
• 1 tin canelleni beans drained and rinsed
• 4 chicken or vegetable oxo
• 1 tablespoon tomatoe puree
• 2 carrots diced
• handful green beans chopped
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste
• 2 litres boiling water
• cooked fusilli pasta boiled and drained and set aside (optional)
• parmesan cheese (optional)

Instructions

STEP 1:

fry all the vegetables and garlic in olive oil for five mins

STEP 2:

add the chopped tomatoes, water, oxo cubes, salt and pepper and tomato puree

STEP 3:

simmer for 30 mins and serve

STEP 4:

serve with the cooked pasta at the bottom of the bowl to make a filling meal and sprinkled with parmesan cheese if desired