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Minestrone

Minestrone

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Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 20 mins
Total Time 25 mins
Course Soup
Cuisine Italian
Servings 4

Ingredients
 

  • 1 cup chicken sausage sliced
  • 1 can garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
  • 4 cups broth (nonhydrogenated) or water
  • 1⁄2 cup tomato puree or pasta sauce
  • 1 small red onion chopped
  • 2 stalks celery diced
  • 1⁄2 cup carrot diced
  • 1⁄2 small zucchini sliced
  • 3 cloves garlic pressed
  • 1 cup broccoli chopped
  • 1⁄4 cup dried seaweed (optional) (Seaweed increases the nutritional value)
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1⁄3 cup frozen peas
  • 2 tbsp miso paste
  • 1⁄4 cup elbow macaroni (preferably a wheat-free kind made from rice or quinoa)
  • salt (to taste)
  • 1⁄2 tsp pepper

Instructions
 

  • Fry sausage in a skillet until browned on both sides.
  • Add to a pot, all of the ingredients up until the bay leaf.
  • Simmer for 25 minutes.
  • Add the peas and pasta and cook until the pasta is al dente (10 minutes).
  • Take one cup of the soup broth and blend or whisk it with the miso.
  • Then add it back to the pot.
  • Do not continue to cook the soup after the miso has been added as boiling temperatures kill the healthy bacteria in the miso.
  • Add salt (if needed) and pepper to taste.