Minestrone Soup Recipes

Hearty enough for a meal, minestrone is a thick vegetable soup chock-full of pasta, beans, and Parmesan. From Tuscan minestrone to vegetarian minestrone, these easy soup recipes preserve the traditions of Italian country cooking.

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Make-Ahead Minestrone

From Better Homes and Gardens

Serve this meatless soup immediately or refrigerate and reheat to serve the next day, allowing flavors to blend and intensify. Serve it with dense-texture Italian bread.

Make-Ahead Minestrone

Classic Minestrone

From Better Homes and Gardens

This Italian soup includes the traditional ingredients--pasta, spinach, beans, sweet pepper, tomatoes, and zucchini--and can be ready to serve in less than 30 minutes.

Classic Minestrone

Slow-Cooked Minestrone

From Better Homes and Gardens

Try this slow cooker version of the popular tomato-based soup that combines beef, beans, pasta, and vegetables into one slow-simmering main dish.

Slow-Cooked Minestrone

Vegetable Minestrone Soup

From Swanson Broth & Stock

Loaded with vegetables, this comforting and delicious minestrone is ready in only 40 minutes.

Vegetable Minestrone Soup

Chunky Minestrone

From Better Homes and Gardens

Make this quick soup vegetarian by substituting vegetable broth for the chicken broth.

Chunky Minestrone

Minestrone with Black-Eyed Peas and Kidney Beans

From Food & Wine

The fiber-rich beans in this soup make it satisfying enough to be a main course. This version gets an extra healthy boost from cabbage, a completely underrated vegetable that's loaded with fiber as well as vitamins A and C.

Minestrone with Black-Eyed Peas and Kidney Beans

Quentin Bacon
Lower-Sodium Minestrone

From Better Homes and Gardens

This soup has fewer than 350 milligrams of sodium per serving, which fits well into a heart-healthy diets.

Lower-Sodium Minestrone

Spicy Mexican Minestrone Stew

From Pace Salsa & Picante

Here's a casual, comforting dish that's great for friends or family. Picante sauce adds a zesty burst of flavor that makes this minestrone-style stew especially tasty.

Spicy Mexican Minestrone Stew

Mexican Minestrone

From Better Homes and Gardens

This meatless, slow cooker soup is full of flavor. Serve with warmed, tortillas or tortilla chips.

Mexican Minestrone

Minestrone with Shrimp, Garbanzo Beans, and Autumn Squash

From Better Homes and Gardens

Squash and beans make this seafood soup hearty enough for dinner.

Minestrone with Shrimp, Garbanzo Beans, and Autumn Squash

Minestrone with Mushrooms and Feta

From Better Homes and Gardens

This hearty soup full of beans, mushrooms, orzo, and tomatoes can be on the table in just 30 minutes.

Minestrone with Mushrooms and Feta

Barley Minestrone

From Fine Cooking Magazine

This rendition of the classic Italian vegetable and bean soup uses barley instead of pasta. Simmering a piece of the rind from Parmigiano-Reggiano in the soup is a traditional way of adding flavor. When you finish off a wedge of Parmigiano, just stash the rind in the freezer so you always have it on hand when you need it.

Barley Minestrone

Quick Minestrone

From Better Homes and Gardens

This make-ahead pasta soup can be served immediately, but chilling the soup overnight allows the flavors to blend.

Quick Minestrone

Mexican Chicken Minestrone

From Ladies' Home Journal

Need a healthy, low-fat dinner? Make this slightly spicy chicken soup. It cooks up in half an hour!

Mexican Chicken Minestrone

Minestrone with Fennel and Ham

From Better Homes and Gardens

Fennel imparts a licoricelike taste to this Italian vegetable soup.

Minestrone with Fennel and Ham

Hearty Minestrone Soup

From Food & Wine

This satisfying soup from David Bull is an excellent source of fiber.

Hearty Minestrone Soup

Kana Okada
Italian Pasta and Bean Soup

From Atkins - Phase 4

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Italian Pasta and Bean Soup

Smoky Ribollita

From Food & Wine

Ribollita ("twice boiled" in Italian) is a Tuscan classic made from reheated minestrone. Charlie Parker spikes his version with sweet smoked paprika and fire-roasted tomatoes.

Smoky Ribollita

Brown W. Cannon III
Green Garden Minestrone

From Diabetic Living

Make this low-calorie side-dish soup using vegetables you have on hand. This recipe gives you lots of options.

Green Garden Minestrone

Chunky Minestrone

From Heart-Healthy Living

Minestrone is Italian for "big soup," and this one--full of beans, vegetables and brown rice--is big indeed. It's dinner in a bowl.

Chunky Minestrone

Chicken Minestrone

From Tyson® Grilled & Ready® Chicken

Chicken Minestrone

Seafood Minestrone

From Better Homes and Gardens

This seafood version of the classic Italian soup uses shrimp, pasta, beans, and tomatoes. Serve this healthy 30-minute recipe when time is short.

Seafood Minestrone

Winter Minestrone

From Diabetic Living

Use any variety of winter squash for this version of the classic Italian vegetable and sausage soup.

Winter Minestrone

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