The Best Crockpot Minestrone Soup
Now that fall is here, I have soup on the mind NON-STOP. It’s one of my family’s go to comfort foods. As you know, my favorite way to make soup is in the crockpot.
What can I say, I’m a set-it and forget-it kinda gal 🙂
What makes this The Best Crockpot Minestrone Soup? The flavor is spot-on and check out the obscene amount of veggies packed into this bad boy. I mean look at this bowl of goodness. Yum!
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The Best Crockpot Minestrone Soup
- 1 can (14.5 oz) diced tomatoes
- 2 cups carrots, chopped
- 2 cups potatoes, chopped
- 1.5 cups celery, chopped
- 1 white onion, diced
- 3-4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 cups vegetable stock ( I prefer low sodium broth)
- 2 cups water
- 3 cups V8 ( or tomato juice)
- 1 can (15 oz) red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 can (15 oz) cannellii beans, drained and rinsed
- 1½ cups zucchini, diced
- 1 cups tubular (ditalini) pasta
- 1 can (15 oz) green beans, drained
Directions:
- Place your diced tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, celery, white onion, garlic, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, bay leaves into your crockpot.
- Add in vegetable stock, water, and V8. Cover and cook on LOW for 6-8 hours or 3-4 hours on HIGH.
- After cooking time is up, add in red kidney beans, cannelli beans, zucchini, green beans and pasta , and cook on high heat for an additional 10-15 minutes until pasta is tender.
Serve with your favorite crackers, salad or warm bread!
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Crockpot Minestrone Soup
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Ingredients
- 1 can 14.5 oz diced tomatoes
- 2 cups carrots chopped
- 2 cups potatoes chopped
- 1.5 cups celery chopped
- 1 white onion diced
- 3-4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 cups vegetable stock I prefer low sodium broth
- 2 cups water
- 3 cups V8 or tomato juice
- 1 can 15 oz red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 can 15 oz cannellii beans, drained and rinsed
- 1½ cups zucchini diced
- 1 cups tubular ditalini pasta
- 1 can 15 oz green beans, drained
Instructions
- Place your diced tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, celery, white onion, garlic, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, bay leaves into your crockpot.
- Add in vegetable stock, water, and V8. Cover and cook on low heat 6-8 hours or high 3-4 hours.
- After cooking time is up, add in red kidney beans, cannellii beans, zucchini, green beans and pasta , and cook on high heat for an additional 10-15 minutes until pasta is tender.
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This recipe looks great. Although I know minestrone soup doesn’t have any meat and prefer it that way my guys (hubby and son) will not go for it or insist I make a meat to complete the meal on the side. Do you think adding a meat to this recipe would work and what would you suggest? I was leaning towards maybe adding beef stew meat, my concern is taking a good minestrone and just ending up with beef vegetable soup instead. Thanks again for another great recipe.
Ground Italian sausage sounds about right
I think some Italian sausage or stew meat would work great.
I tried your recipe and it was delicious,. Thanks for sharing!
I love minestrone with meat too. I added mild Italian sausage. Turned out great.
Love this recipe! I cube a small pork tenderloin and toss it in. Easy & delish!
My hubs is picky about noodles and their level of “mushiness”. If I were to cook the noodles separately to ensure his “al dente” standards were met, would I remove the 2 cups water from the crock?
I wouldn’t cut out all of the water, maybe just remove 1 cup.
Probably a lb of sausage
Aha! This is going into the slow cooker tomorrow morning for Sunday dinner! Knew you’d have a great crock pot idea. DD loves tomato-based soups too. Corey, do you know what I did the other day? I used my mini crock to soak some dried beans overnight, then cooked them while I was at work. In the evening they were ready for dinner, in the perfect portion size. So I’m going to set up the mini crock tonight for tomorrow’s minestrone too 🙂 Thanks for this vegetarian recipe!
That is a great idea Katharine! Yes, we all love tomato based soups over here too. I hope your love this soup as much as we do!
Made this tonight by exactly following the recipe and it was delicious. Easy. Healthy. My whole family loved it. Thanks for the delicious recipe.
That is wonderful Alicia! I am so happy the family loved it 🙂