Minestrone soup (pasta soup)

Ingredients:

Tomatoes                                                 1 kg

Carrots                                                    2 medium size

Spring onions (chopped)                     2-3  

Potato (peeled & chopped)                1 large

Beef stock                                               4 cups

Salt                                                           to taste

Red kidney beans (canned)                 1-1/2 can

Pasta (any shaped)                                ½ cup

Black pepper (crushed)                        1 tablespoon

Garlic                                                       2 cloves

Parsley/coriander (fresh)                     1/3 cup

Method:

In a pan, put beef stock, carrots, spring onion, potato and garlic and cook it over high heat till boiled. Add kidney beans and tomato to the pan and give it a boil. Season it with pepper and salt. Then cover the pan and cook it for 30 minutes till all the vegetables tender.

Then increase the heat and add boiled pasta and stir it for 3 minutes. Off the stove and ladle into a serving bowl. Garnish it with fresh chopped parsley or coriander.

A hot soup for vegetable lovers… J