Minestrone

Minestrone 

One of the classic vegetable pasta soups of all time. Especially delicious served with some crusty Italian bread. This is a family favourite and has been enjoyed by my family for over 40 years. Hope you enjoy it too. The Tefal Cuisine Companion does the chopping, stirring, and cooking for you, and if you have the shredder/slicer attachment you won't have to manually dice the vegetables. You can cut the carrot, celery and zucchini into sticks then using the thick slicer attachment feed the vegetable sticks through the feeding tube and within seconds you'll have your veggies diced. 

Note: Australian cup and spoon measurements used. 1 cup = 250 mls. 1 tablespoon = 20 mls. 1 teaspoon = 5 mls.

1 onion peeled and cut into quarters
1 garlic clove
1 green capsicum cut into large chunks
125 gms bacon diced
3 celery stalks diced
2 carrots diced
2 zucchini diced
1 tin crushed tomatoes
100 gms small pasta shells
1 tablespoon tomato paste
Pinch sugar
2 tablespoon fresh basil chopped or 1 teaspoon dried basil
1 tablespoon fresh oregano chopped or 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon Hungarian sweet paprika
Salt and pepper to taste
Vegetable stock
1 tin red kidney beans drained and refreshed under cold running water
Insert Kneading Blade. Stopper in.
Add onion and garlic Sp11:15sec. Scraping bowl with spatula after 10 seconds
Add capsicum. Sp11:10sec. Scraping bowl with spatula after 5 seconds
Insert Mixing Blade. Stopper out
Slow Cook P1:5mins. Scraping bowl as required
Add diced bacon. Slow Cook P1:10mins. Scraping bowl as required
Add all other ingredients EXCEPT stock and kidney beans
Add stock to maximum level marked in CC bowl
Stopper in and set to maxi
Sp3:100deg:10mins or until boiling then
Sp2:100deg:20mins
Add kidney beans
Sp2:100deg:10mins
Serve with freshly grated Parmesan cheese, chilli and fresh herbs to taste.