Hearty Chickpea Minestrone Soup
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recipe by Tenina Holder https://bit.ly/TheWeekendTable
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- Total Time
- 1hr 45mins
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- Serves
- 6
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- Calories
- 168
This is a miracle soup. We LOVED it. It is pretty much throw what you have in the veggie drawer soup, and it is good! SO good. I recommend Hey Pesto (recipe on Drop) for the pesto.
Inspired by: https://tenina.com/recipes/hearty-chickpea-minestrone-souprecipe updated Jan 12, 2022
Ingredients
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- Red onion
- 1
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- Zucchini
- 120 g
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- Eggplant
- 120 g
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- Carrot
- 150 g
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- Bell pepper
- 100 g
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- Dried chickpeas
- 150 g
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- Water
- as needed
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- Garlic clove
- 4
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- Extra virgin olive oil
- 20 g
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- Tomato paste
- 100 g
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- Balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon
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- Golden caster sugar
- 1 tablespoon
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- Vegetable stock
- 300 g
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- Fennel seeds
- 1 teaspoon
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- Canned diced tomatoes
- 400 g
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- Italian herbs
- 1 tablespoon
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- Pesto
- as needed
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- Fresh herbs
- 1 handful
Tools
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TM5
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Tm5 bowl
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Medium bowl
Step preview
- Add dried chickpeas and enough water to cover them in a clean medium bowl
- Soak for at least 24 hours
- Drain the water
- Place onion, garlic and olive oil into the Thermomix bowl
- Chop with MC on - 4 sec, speed 5
- Sauté - 5 min, Varoma, speed 1
- Add all remaining ingredients, including drained chickpeas, but without the pesto and fresh herbs
- Cook - 1 hr 30 min, 100°C, reverse speed 1
- Check that the chickpeas are soft enough to your liking, if they are not, add more cooking time
- Serve with a generous swirl of pesto and fresh herbs