A rich and hearty Thermomix Minestrone soup

Name: Thermomix Minestrone Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 1 stick celery; 1 carrot; 1 zucchini; 1 potato; 80 g green beans; 1 onion (peeled and quartered); 3 cloves garlic; 40 g olive oil; 1 x 400g can chopped tomatoes; 50 g tomato paste; 500 g stock; 1/2 tsp dried oregano; 1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper; 1 x 400g can cannellini beans; 80 g small pasta - eg macaroni or ditalini; 60 g baby spinach leaves; Freshly grated parmesan and freshly chopped parsley leaves to serve

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This Thermomix Minestrone Soup is rich and hearty and full of vegetables and goodness. Perfect for a cold winters day.

Minestrone is a hearty Italian soup with a tomato base, filled with vegetables and bulked out with some beans and pasta.

It's a full meal in a bowl and perfect for a cold winters day.

There are no fixed rules when it comes to minestrone soup as it is designed to use up seasonal vegetables and store cupboard ingredients, so anything goes!

Feel free to substitute the vegetables and leave out anything you don't like or don't have.

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Ingredients for Minestrone

This minestrone soup is ideal for using up any vegetables you may have left over in the vegetable drawer of your fridge.

Add in some store cupboard ingredients like canned tomatoes, beans and pasta and you have a delicious homemade soup!

Vegetables - traditionally minestrone soup used up all your leftover vegetables, so anything goes really. My recipe uses celery, carrot, zucchini, potato, green beans and spinach. But you could also add pumpkin, sweet potato, capsicum...
Onion
Garlic
Chopped tinned tomatoes
Tomato paste
Dried oregano - you could also use fresh herbs, or mixed dried Italian herbs
Stock - I usually use either homemade bone broth or stock made using my Thermomix chicken stock paste. For a vegetarian soup, obviously use vegetable stock.
Canned cannelini beans - you can substitute with kidney beans or borlotti beans.
Small pasta - use macaroni or ditalini or something similar.
Freshly grated parmesan and freshly chopped parsley to serve.

How to make Minestrone in the Thermomix

This Thermomix soup does require a little preparation before cooking in the Thermomix. As the Thermomix is unable to dice vegetables, this needs to be done by hand before you start.

After that it is all over to the Thermomix!

Start by dicing all the vegetables by hand to around 2cm cubes. This size allows them to cook through but remain al dente and not disintegrate or go all mushy.

A bowl of mixed vegetable for Minestrone Soup.

Next use the Thermomix to chop and saute the onion and garlic, before adding the tomatoes, stock, tomato paste and chopped vegetables to the bowl. Cook for 15 minutes.

Remember to use the REVERSE mode, or your vegetables will end up getting chopped up to a mush.

Next add the beans, pasta and spinach and cook for a further 10 minutes (again in REVERSE mode).

Serve in bowls with freshly grated parmesan and freshly chopped parsley leaves.

FAQs and Top Tips

How to store minestrone soup

If you have leftover minestrone soup, store it in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.

How to reheat minestrone soup

You can reheat this soup either on the stove top or in the microwave. It does tend to be thicker after chilling so you might want to add a little extra stock when reheating.

Can you freeze minestrone soup?

If you plan on freezing minestrone it is best not to add the pasta to the soup. Pasta does not freeze and reheat well, so is best added when you are reheating the soup. Store it in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 3 months.