Recipe: Appetizing Creamy Minestrone Soup

Creamy Minestrone Soup.

You can cook Creamy Minestrone Soup using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Creamy Minestrone Soup

1. Prepare 1 Tbsp of olive oil.
2. You need 1/2 cup of chopped onion.
3. It's 1 clove of minced garlic.
4. It's 2 1/2 cups of beef broth.
5. Prepare 1-14 ounce of can tomato sauce.
6. Prepare 1-14 ounce of can kidney beans.
7. It's 1 cup of water.
8. You need 2 of diced carrots.
9. It's 1 stalk of diced celery.
10. You need 2 of small chopped potatoes.
11. You need 1 of chopped zucchini.
12. Prepare 1/2 tsp of basil.
13. It's 1/2 cup of small shell shaped pasta.
14. You need 2 Tbsp of flour.
15. Prepare 2 cups of milk.
16. Prepare to taste of Salt and pepper.
17. It's of Grated parmesan cheese (optional).
18. It's 4 slices of bacon cooked and crumbled (optional).

Creamy Minestrone Soup instructions

1. Saute onion and garlic in olive oil..
2. Stir in beef broth, tomato sauce, kidney beans, water, carrots, celery, potatoes and basil. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender..
3. Add pasta and zucchini. Cover and simmer 10 minutes longer or until pasta is tender..
4. Stir a small amount of milk into flour to make a paste; gradually stir in remaining milk. Add to soup mixture. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture boils and thickens a bit. Add salt and pepper to taste..
5. Sprinkle bacon bits and parmesan cheese over each serving if desired..
6. Enjoy!.