Terrific Tuscan Vegetable Soup Food

TUSCAN VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a small bowl mash half of the beans with a masher or the back of a spoon, and set aside.
• Heat the oil in a large soup pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion, carrots, celery, zucchini, garlic, thyme, sage, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper, and cook stirring occasionally until the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes.
• Add the broth and tomatoes with the juice and bring to a boil. Add the mashed and whole beans and the spinach leaves and cook until the spinach is wilted, about 3 minutes more.
• Serve topped with Parmesan, if desired.

PORK AND TUSCAN VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat.
• Add pork mince, onions, carrots and celery.
• Cook, stirring occasionally until onions are translucent.
• Add stock, tomatoes, cannellini beans, garlic, thyme and fennel.
• Bring to the boil.
• Reduce heat to low, cover. Simmer for 5 minutes.
• Stir in spinach and green beans and simmer for a further 10min or until vegetables are tender.
• Season with salt and pepper.

TERRIFIC TUSCAN VEGETABLE SOUP - ELLIE KRIEGER

Steps:

• In a small bowl mash half of the beans with a masher or the back of a spoon, and set aside.
• Heat the oil in a large soup pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion, carrots, celery, zucchini, garlic, thyme, sage, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper, and cook stirring occasionally until the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes.
• Add the broth and tomatoes with the juice and bring to a boil. Add the mashed and whole beans and the spinach leaves and cook until the spinach is wilted, about 3 minutes more.
• Serve topped with Parmesan, if desired.

TERRIFIC TUSCAN VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mash half of the beans with a masher or the back of a spoon; set aside.
• Heat oil in a large soup pot over med-high heat. Add onion, carrot, celery, zucchini, garlic, thyme, sage, salt and pepper, until the vegetables are tender (about 5 mins).
• Add broth and tomatoes and bring to a boil.
• Add the mashed and whole beans and the spinach leaves; cook until the spinach is wilted, about 3 minutes more.
• Serve topped with the parmesan, if desired.

TUSCAN VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In 2-quart saucepan, place eggplant, water, tomatoes with their juices, mushrooms, garlic, zucchini, Italian seasoning, 1/4 t salt and 1/8 t freshly ground black pepper; stir to combine.
• Heat to boiling on high.
• Cover; reduce heat to low.
• Simmer 25 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
• To serve, ladle soup into 4 shallow soup bowls; sprinkle with Parmesan.

TUSCAN VEGETABLE SOUP WITH FRESH SAGE

Steps:

• In a soup pot heat up the olive oil on low-medium heat and lightly saute the sage leaves; about 5 minutes. With a slotted spoon, remove leaves from pot and set aside. In same pot, saute the garlic until soft, only a minute or two.
• Add the green peas, green beans, zucchini, carrots, potato and cannelini beans. Stir mixture over medium heat for 5 minutes.
• Add the vegetable broth and red pepper flakes. Simmer until the vegetables are tender, about 15-20 minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste. Divide and ladle the soup into 4 individual soup bowls. Garnish each serving with the sauteed sage leaves.
• Enjoy immediately! Don't forget the Italian bread and pop in a Bocelli CD (Furtiva Lagrina on the Viaggio Italiano recording) while you're at it!

TUSCAN VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mash half of the beans with a fork, masher or the back of a spoon, and set aside.
• Heat the oil in a large soup pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion, carrots, celery, zucchini, garlic, thyme, sage, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper, and cook stirring occasionally until the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes.
• Add the broth and tomatoes with the juice and bring to a boil. Add the mashed and whole beans and the spinach leaves and cook until the spinach is wilted, about 3 minutes more.
• Serve topped with Parmesan, if desired.