Topic · Cold Soups and World Soups
Minestrone, from Italy

Minestrone is a thick vegetable Italian soup, whose key ingredients are onions, celery, carrots, beans, tomatoes, and pasta. There is no specific recipe for Minestrone as it is made out of whatever vegetable is at your disposal. Many minestrone variations may either be vegetarian or contain meat or even animal bone-based stock.
However, the traditional Minestrone, is based on bean broth, which can be predated during the roman kingdom when the main diet was vegetables such as garlic, beans, onions, cabbage, mushrooms, and carrots.
Modern-day classic Minestrone is made with lots of vegetables and a small portion of pasta in a tomato-based broth, which is perfectly spiced. This is one of the most famous Italian dishes full of a wide variety of everyone’s favorite vegetables.