Minestrone
Servings: 6
Ingredients:
1 c Dried white beans, soaked
-overnight in 3 times their
Volume water
5 tb Olive oil
5 Cloves Garlic, minced or put
-through a press
1 Onion, minced
2 Leeks, white part only,
-cleaned and sliced
2 Carrots, sliced
1/2 sm Cabbage, shredded
2 Potatoes, scrubbed and diced
1 lb Tomatoes, sliced
1 cn Tomato paste, small can
6 c Water or vegetable stock
1/4 ts Celery seed
1 ea Parmesan; 3\’ rind
1 Bay leaf
1 ts Oregano
1/2 ts Thyme
Sea salt and pepper to taste
1 ts Dried basil, or 1 T of fresh
1 Or 2 Zucchini, sliced thin
3/4 c Fresh green beans, trimmed
-and cut in half
1 c (unshelled) fresh or 1/4 c
-frozen peas
4 oz Broken whole wheat spaghetti
4 tb Chopped fresh parsley
1 c Freshly grated Parmesan
-cheese
From: Gourmet Vegetarian Feasts, by Martha Rose Shulman, 1989
Soak beans overnight or for several hours and drain. (…)