Maltese Minestra - Our wonderful vegetable soup!
 
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Our Minestra is full of vegetables, pasta and as an option you can also add lentils. A great choice in the Winter months and during the Easter period.
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Cuisine: Maltese
Ingredients
  • 2 onions finely diced
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 1 potato diced
  • 2 celery sticks chopped
  • 1 kohl rahbi diced or 1 turnip diced
  • 1 marrow or courgette chopped
  • 1 choko chopped
  • 400 grams pumpkin chopped
  • Small bunch spinach chopped
  • 2 handfuls broad beans (use frozen if fresh is unavailable)
  • ¼ cauliflower chopped (use leaves also)
  • ¼ cabbage chopped
  • 1 vegetable stock cube crushed
  • Boiled water to fill pot
  • Small bunch parsley chopped
  • 100 grams brown lentils (already cooked)
  • Olive oil and salt and pepper
  • 150 grams small pasta
  • Hard cheese to serve (optional)
Instructions
  1. In a large pot fry the onion for five minutes until soft.
  2. Add in the garlic and tomato paste and fry for a minute.
  3. Add all the other vegetables and crushed stock cube and fry for another five minutes.
  4. Fill the pot with boiled water until the vegetables have been covered.
  5. Season with salt and pepper, and bring to a boil.
  6. Reduce heat and simmer for 1½ hours.
  7. Add in the lentils and pasta and cook for a further twenty minutes.
  8. Add in the parsley and serve.
  9. As an option garnish with hard cheese.
Recipe by A Maltese Mouthful at https://www.amaltesemouthful.com/maltese-minestra-wonderful-vegetable-soup/