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Healthy minestrone soup
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Healthy minestrone soup

15 ingredients 30 min + 2 hr Serves 4-6 openrecipes
Healthy minestrone soup

This classic Italian soup will fill your family up with healthy vegetables and help them towards their five-a-day.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

712
Calories
26g
Protein
23g
Fat
104g
Carbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Pasta 1 cup cooked (140g) 220
Potato 1 medium (173g) baked 161
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Parmesan Cheese 1 oz (28g) 110
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Celery 1 stalk (40g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Soup not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • splash olive oil
  • 200g/7oz streaky baconbacon
  • 2 large carrots
  • 6 celery
  • 6 garlic
  • 2 onions
  • 2 potatoes, such as Maris Peer potatoes, roughly chopped
  • 1 tbsp tomato purée
  • 400g tin chopped tomatoes
  • 1 bouquet garni
  • 0.75 litres/1½ pints reduced-salt vegetable stock
  • 3 courgettes
  • 1 large handful soup pasta
  • 1 handful fresh flatleaf parsley
  • 100g/3½oz Parmesan

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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