{"id":42092,"date":"2023-12-04T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42092"},"modified":"2023-12-04T07:30:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:30:36","slug":"minestrone-soup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/12\/04\/minestrone-soup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Minestrone Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6234\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/17\/apple-cake\/food-header-1-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-11.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Food-Header-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-11.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6234\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-11.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-11.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-11.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42094\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/12\/04\/minestrone-soup-2\/minestroneweb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Minestroneweb.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Minestroneweb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Minestroneweb.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42094\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Minestroneweb.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Minestroneweb.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Minestroneweb.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This minestrone soup is a hearty (and meatless) meal for a cold night. You can customize it by adding other vegetables, different beans, or pasta. Bonus is that it freezes well! <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 tablespoons olive oil<\/li>\n<li>4 cloves garlic, minced<\/li>\n<li>1 medium yellow onion, diced<\/li>\n<li>2 carrots, peeled and diced<\/li>\n<li>2 stalks celery, diced<\/li>\n<li>2 yellow potatoes, peeled and diced<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon dried oregano<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon pepper<\/li>\n<li>5 cups vegetable broth<\/li>\n<li>28 oz. diced tomatoes, drained<\/li>\n<li>15 oz. can chick peas, drained and rinsed<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups dried ditalini<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Warm olive oil in a large, heavy bottomed pot combine garlic and onion, saut\u00e9 for 3 minutes until soft.<\/li>\n<li>Add carrots, celery, potato, oregano, salt, and pepper, saut\u00e9 for 6 minutes until the carrots and potato have softened.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in the vegetable broth, tomatoes, chick peas, and pasta. Bring to a boil, and simmer uncovered until the pasta is cooked. Makes 6 servings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This minestrone soup is a hearty (and meatless) meal for a cold night. You can customize it by adding other vegetables, different beans, or pasta. Bonus is that it freezes well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1238,4],"tags":[3237,5000,2212,4370],"class_list":["post-42092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovin-from-the-oven","category-news","tag-meatless-meals","tag-minestrone","tag-soup","tag-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aWU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35222,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/10\/06\/minestrone-soup\/","url_meta":{"origin":42092,"position":0},"title":"Minestrone Soup","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"October 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"If you ever feel like you're not getting enough vegetables in your diet, make this soup! 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