Potato Minestrone Recipe

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Let the aroma of this savory soup waft through your home while you get ready for the holidays. "I only have to slice some bread and prepare a salad to have dinner ready," writes Paula Zsiray of Logan Utah. "For a thicker soup, mash half of the garbanzo beans before adding them to the slow cooker."

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Potato Minestrone Recipe
  • Prep: 10 min. Cook: 8-1/2 hours
  • Yield: 12 Servings
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Ingredients

  • 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) chicken or vegetable broth
  • 1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes
  • 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
  • 1 can (15 ounces) garbanzo beans or chickpeas, rinsed and drained
  • 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) beef broth
  • 2 cups frozen cubed hash brown potatoes, thawed
  • 1 tablespoon dried minced onion
  • 1 tablespoon dried parsley flakes
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram
  • 1 package (10 ounces) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
  • 2 cups frozen peas and carrots, thawed

Directions

  • In a 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the first 13 ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. Stir in the spinach, peas and carrots; heat thorough. Yield: 12 servings (about 3 quarts).

Nutritional Analysis: One serving (1 cup) equals 172 calories, 2 g fat (trace saturated fat), 1 mg cholesterol, 943 mg sodium, 31 g carbohydrate, 8 g fiber, 9 g protein. Diabetic Exchange: 2 starch.

Originally published as Potato Minestrone in Quick Cooking November/December 2001, p36

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Reviewed on Feb. 28, 2012 by mb180305

This soup was great! It smelled wonderful simmering all day, and was easy to put together. I mashed half of the garbanzo beans as suggested and my whole family loved it. I served it with dinner rolls. It was a very tasty, filling soup.

 
 

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