Italian vegetable soup

Italian vegetable soup

Warm up your week with this good-for-you vegetable soup that's easy to freeze ahead

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 15 mins

Cook time

Cook 55 mins

Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian, Low-fat, Super healthy

Method

  1. Gently cook the onion, carrots and celery in the oil in a large saucepan for 20 mins, until soft. Splash in water if they stick. Add the sugar, garlic, purée, herbs and courgettes and cook for 4-5 mins on a medium heat until they brown a little.
  2. Pour in the beans, tomatoes and stock, then simmer for 20 mins. If you're freezing it, cool and do so now (freeze for up to three months). If not, add half the Parmesan and the pasta and simmer for 6-8 mins until pasta cooked. Sprinkle with basil and remaining Parmesan to serve. If frozen, defrost then re-heat before adding pasta and cheese and continuing as above.

PER SERVING

215 kcalories, protein 11g, carbohydrate 30g, fat 6 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 5g, sugar 12g, salt 1.06 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2011.

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  • 29 January 2011

    forehead84 commented on this recipe

    I agree with the timing comment above, the amount of chopping you have to do adds a lot of time to this recipe - really tasty though. I put the rind of my parmesan in for the last bit of cooking (Thank you for the tip Mr Slater) and used pesto instead of fresh basil.

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  • 29 January 2011

    Dunc rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    a1 liked this so much i cooked it again in the evening the kids loved it!!

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  • 05 February 2011

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  • 07 February 2011

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  • 08 February 2011

    Beth rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Nice. Add some ground chilli.

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  • 17 February 2011

    JOOLES commented on this recipe

    Gorgeous soup, and filling. There was enough for our evening meal and enough left over for my fella to take the rest to work in a flask the next day.

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  • 17 February 2011

    Frantic Flapjack rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was a lovely soup, although I just used a dessert spoon of sugar - 2 tablespoons is far too much. Also you don't really need the pasta. I served half for dinner and froze the other half.

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  • 24 February 2011

    Melanie Day rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    A great soup with some nice flavours.

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  • 21 March 2011

    Charlotte rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This could easily become a mid-week staple. So tasty and so easy and so adaptable - I used red tomato pesto instead of pesto, and mushrooms instead of butter beans and it was delicious!

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  • 24 March 2011

    Hayley commented on this recipe

    Really tasty but next time I would definately remove the courgette seeds...it made my soup all stringy!

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  • 26 April 2011

    pasta princess ;) commented on this recipe

    no offense to anyone, because im sure you are all very talented cooks, but whats up with all the commotion over leek, bacon and potato soup? after all it says italian vegetable soup, not leek bacon and potato soup. hahahahaha i like Red Jenny's comment "Oh I see!! It is leek less, bacon less and potato less soup!" it made me laugh : ) the soup look delish, cant wait to have a go at making it ; ) p.s the idea of char-grilling the courgettes sound amazing, must try it : )

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  • 03 June 2011

    Malaz rated this recipe

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  • 13 August 2011

    My trials! rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    lovely, lovely soup! Although I added a beef stock cube for a little flavour, some dried rosmary and also some smoky paprika for a bit of a kick.. just our personal taste. Will be a regular visitor to my table! :)

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  • 15 September 2011

    Louise Howe rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Really tasty.

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    19 September 2011

    Ted rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Made the soup but missed out the sugar. It was beautiful and appreciated by all who tasted. I think the timings are a little out but hey, the result is worth the work. It beats potato and leek soup any day.

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  • 01 October 2011

    joley92 rated this recipe

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  • 23 October 2011

    bexlaa rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    Was really excited about making this recipe, but sadly I felt the texture of the vegetables let it down, also the flavours just didn't really taste right to me. However, my 14 month old twins seemed to really enjoy it! I will possibly try it again using slightly different ingredients.

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  • 03 November 2011

    angel mags rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Really tasty meal will be making this again absolutly gorgeous even better the next day with crusty bread a real winner.

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  • 08 December 2011

    frozenpixie rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Really delicious and warming - I left out the sugar and the beans, and I didn't have any celery, but the pasta went really nicely - I've never put pasta in soup before, and this was a huge success!

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  • 06 January 2012

    corrinamoore rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Really tasty and filling and very easy to make. Will definately make again.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 15 mins

Cook time

Cook 55 mins

Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian, Low-fat, Super healthy

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215 kcalories, protein 11g, carbohydrate 30g, fat 6 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 5g, sugar 12g, salt 1.06 g

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