Minestrone Soup Recipes

This recipe tries to copy the Olive Garden Minestrone Soup recipe.

This is a recipe I came across while living in Italy many years ago. I have added some of my favorite vegetables to it to "beef" it up and make it more hearty. It is one of my family's favorites, great for a cold fall or winter night.

Minestrone is a traditional Italian soup, we like to serve it with warm crusty bread, and yet there is no set recipe for minestrone, since it is usually made out of whatever vegetables are in season. It can be vegetarian, contain meat, or contain a meat-based broth (such as chicken stock).
Serves / Makes: 12 servings
Prep-Time: 12 minutes
Cook-Time: 35 minutes

A nice twist to the usual minestrone soup.

This recipe is great for batching and freezing leftovers for lunches or dinners when you don’t want to cook but want feel good food that is still healthy. It's one of my favorite soups. When I was pregnant with my daughter this is all I wanted.

Very healthy and colourful, this soup is delicious with tea biscuits or fresh bread.

This recipe makes a huge pot of Minestrone Soup, tastes even better the next day!

A delicious and filling minestrone that is gluten free and pasta free. A can of pureed white beans adds thickness and protein to this soup.

Full Meal Servings loaded with of 35 grams of healthy carbs including 11 grams of fiber and 10 grams of proteins while low fat with only 5 grams from olive oil.

Rich and flavoursome minestrone soup

This hearty soup has 90 cal, 4 grams of fiber, 4 grams of protein, 258 mg of sodium and only 1 grams of fat per serving. Its a big pot of soup, but it freezes beautifully!
I freeze flat in gallon bags and they stack in the freezer, and I freeze single portions in zippered sandwich bags for a quick lunch.

Do this on stove in LARGE stew pot. Crockpot is not big enough

One of my favorite recipes from the "Fat-free Italian Cuisine" book :) This soup makes a tasty appetizer or snack and is very low in fat! For lower sodium use low sodium ingredients and you can always add or subtract veggies to taste :) Hope you enjoy this recipe!

Recipe from 1,000 Classic Recipes from Around the World

*this version comes from Livorno, a port on the western coast.

A perfect dish to help meet all thoes nutritional needs this soup is packed full of vegetables. This is low in calories, plenty of protien and very filling.

recipe from bean package.
prep and cooking time does not include time to precook beans.

This soup is rockin'. It's so good that my man's eyes light up when I tell him I'm going to make it...despite the lack of meat. I dare you to eat just one bowl!

Low-cal, high-flavor version of an italian favorite

(Adjusted from WW recipe) I don't know how, but this have a creamy flavor. It must be the garlic maybe. Anyway, if you want to add pasta, add 2 oz of ww linguine broken into small pieces and then count the extra nutritional info for the pasta.

Authentic Italian recipe, No Pasta!

All the food groups are represented. Serve this hearty soup with lightly toasted bread to get every last drop. Recipe can be doubled.

Vegetables, ham, beans, pasta shells

Yummy and good for you. A great way to get your five-a-day.

This hearty vegetarian soup takes advantage of late summer garden crops or throwing together vegetables in your fridge for a quick soup on a busy weeknight.

A cholesterol-free classic Italian vegetable soup brimming with fiber-rich beans, peas, and carrots.

Awesome comfort food!