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🍽️ Fresh green minestrone with homemade pesto
508 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 sage leaves
- 1 stalk leek
- 3 parsnips (250 g)
- 2 stalks celery
- 150 g kale
- 150 g green beans (frozen)
- 2 zucchini
- 400 g cannellini beans (can; drained weight)
- 120 ml olive oil
- 1.5 l vegetable broth
- 10 g basil (2 handfuls)
- 30 g parmesan (block; 30 % fat in dry matter)
- 3 tbsp pine nuts (45 g)
- salt
- pepper
Instructions
- 1. Peel two garlic cloves and cut them into fine cubes.
- 2. Wash the sage leaves, shake them dry and chop them finely.
- 3. Clean the leek, wash it and cut it very finely.
- 4. Peel the parsnips, wash them and cut them into small cubes.
- 5. Clean the celery, wash it and slice it into fine slices.
- 6. Pull the kale leaves off the thick ribs, wash the leaves, shake them dry and cut them small.
- 7. Thaw the green beans.
- 8. Clean the zucchini, wash it, halve it lengthwise and slice it.
- 9. Rinse the cannellini beans and let them drain.
- 10. Heat two tablespoons of olive oil in a pot.
- 11. Sauté the garlic with the sage and leek for three minutes over medium heat.
- 12. Add the parsnips, celery and kale and sauté everything for another three minutes.
- 13. Pour in the broth and simmer the soup over low heat for fifteen minutes.
- 14. Wash the basil, shake it dry and cut it small.
- 15. Peel the remaining garlic clove and cut it small.
- 16. Grate the Parmesan.
- 17. Toast the pine kernels in a hot pan without fat for three minutes over medium heat.
- 18. Put the basil, garlic, Parmesan and pine kernels into a blender.
- 19. Season the mixture with salt and pepper.
- 20. Blend everything with the remaining oil to make a pesto.
- 21. Add the green beans, zucchini slices and cannellini beans to the minestrone.
- 22. Let the ingredients cook in the soup for another five minutes.
- 23. Season the soup with salt and pepper to taste.
- 24. Fill the soup into bowls.
- 25. Serve the soup together with the pesto.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 508
- Protein: 16 g · Fett/Fat: 39 g · Carbs: 22 g