Kids’ Minestrone Soup
Join in some kitchen fun with this delightful vegetable soup recipe! Get your little ones involved in chopping up colorful veggies while the adults handle the cooking. A nourishing blend of tomatoes, vegetables, and pasta come together in a flavorful broth that will warm your hearts and bellies. Top it off with some fresh herbs and serve with a side of chunky bread for a satisfying meal that the whole family will love.
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 2 spring onions
- 1 carrot
- handful peas
- small handful green beans
- couple of cabbagecabbagekalespinach
- 1 garlic
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp tomato purée
- 1 x 400g/14oz tin chopped tomatoes
- 1 x 400g/14oz tin cannellini beans
- 2 rashers cooked back bacon
- 600ml/20fl oz reduced-salt vegetable stock
- 30g/1oz dried small pasta
- small bunch fresh basil or parsley
- , to taste lemon juice
- , to taste sugar
- freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Kidâs job: Chop all of the vegetables into tiny pieces, as small as you can (you can leave the peas whole). You can use your fingers, or a salad knife (with an adults help) or use clean child-friendly scissors to chop the herbs, cabbage and spring onions.
- Adultâs job: Heat a large saucepan and add a teaspoon of olive oil or butter. Gently fry the spring onion or leek for five minutes, stirring often.
- Adultâs job: Add the garlic, the rest of the vegetables, dried herbs and tomato puree and stir for a minute.
- Adultâs job: Add the tinned tomatoes and stock and bring to the boil.
- Adultâs job: Add the pasta and any meat or beans you want to use and cook for 8 more minutes.
- Kidâs job:Get your grown up to spoon a little of the soup into a small bowl for you and let it cool a little. Have a taste and see what you thinkâ¦if you like you can add a squeeze of lemon juice, a little sugar or some black pepper.
- Adultâs job: spoon into bowls to serve. You can either sprinkle herbs on top or put them in a small bowl on the table for the kids to taste first. The soup is great served with chunky bread.
Cook Time
30M
Prep Time
PT30M
Yield
Serves 4
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