So its 4 pm on a Wednesday afternoon and I need to figure out what to do for dinner. I have chicken in the fridge from Costco and some sausage I need to use. So I text my husband and give him a couple of options: Chicken noodle soup, Minestrone soup, or a chicken casserole of some kind. While he loves my chicken noodle he chose the minestrone soup.
Great! Pinterest here I come to see what I need for minestrone soup. Sometimes I forget how many choices Pinterest offers . . . it. can be a bit overwhelming.
Anyway I see a picture with some little round noodles (Ditalini Pasta) and I know I have those noodles in my pantry. When I open the link it was for Pasta Fagioli Soup. Close enough to minestrone so that's what I decide to make.
The recipe I used is by www.cookingclassy.com.
The ingredient list is pretty simple with ground beef, onions, carrots, celery, garlic, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, chicken stock, kidney beans, great northern beans and water. There are a bunch of spices too but you can just use Italian seasoning if you have it.
Since I didn't have ground beef thawed but sausage I used that. I also decided to use butter beans instead of great northern beans. I have the great northern beans in my pantry, but I was curious what butter beans were. I bought them for something but I can't remember what so in the pot they went.
Look at how pretty my soup looks bubbling away.
One thing I learned from cookingclassy.com was that if you want to freeze soup to cook the noodles separately. Genius!!!
So that is what I did. It turned out great and my husband loved it. When I served dinner I made sure each person was able to scoop in the amount of noodles then top it with the soup or visa versa if they so desired.
Family Reviews
Each member gets to give a meal a rating. One means that it wasn't good and ten means it was spectacular.
Husband: Gave it a 9.0. He commented that he loved the noodles on the side.
Me: It was really good. I rated it a 9. I'm not really a minestrone soup person, but this was really good.
15 year old daughter: She rated it a 7 or 8. I guess she really didn't like it all that much.
3 year old daughter: ate the noodles but with butter and some cheese.
19 month old son: ate all the soup and had seconds.
Overall, I think this is a good recipe.
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