Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup {Olive Garden Copycat}

Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup – this healthy hearty soup is brimming with fresh vegetables, protein rich beans too tender pasta and it has such a delicious flavour! I’ve included the how-to for ho-hum cooker in addition to stove-top, and then become with whichever is more than convenient for you.


Minestrone Soup


Copycat Olive Garden Minestrone Soup


I’ve been using this Crock Pot Minestrone soup recipe for over half dozen years. Chances are it will get i of your favorites too!


Don’t live scared by the long listing of ingredients inward this recipe. Much of it is dried herbs that yous likely take on manus and basic pantry items like canned beans as well as tomatoes. The tardily prep makes up for the lengthy list of ingredients.


Plus much of it is vegetables and so yous’ve got to feel not bad nearly making this ane (not to name how depression inward fatty it is).


This is one of those throw it inwards the irksome cooker and go recipes, which I honey. Who doesn’t beloved a recipe like that? The stovetop version is actually tardily also!


See How It’sec Made Watch the Video!











 


Minestrone after cooking


Crock Pot Minestrone Soup Ingredients



  • Low-sodium vegetable stock

  • Canned diced tomatoes

  • Fresh vegetables – celery, carrots, yellow onion, zucchini, spinach, garlic, parsley

  • Dried herbs – basil, oregano, rosemary, thyme (or function one i/2 Tbsp Italian seasoning)

  • Salt as well as pepper

  • Frozen green beans (regular or Italian)

  • Shell pasta

  • Canned beans – kidney beans, navy beans (or cannelini)

  • Parmesan, for serving


Minestrone Ingredients shown here including carrots, onion, celery, zucchini, beans, garlic, parsley, basil, oregano, parmesan, vegetable broth, spinach, pasta shells, canned tomatoes, and kidney beans.


Can I Use Other Vegetables?


The peachy thing virtually this recipe is that you can purpose other vegetables you may already have on manus. Asparagus, kale, peas, xanthous squeeze, or cauliflower are all skillful choices.


How to Make Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup


Slow Cooker Method:



  • Add vegetable stock, water, tomatoes, celery, carrots, onion too herbs, southward&P to a half dozen or 7-quart boring cooker


Showing how to make minestrone soup. Adding vegetables to crockpot along with broth.



  • Cook on low oestrus 7 – eight hours or high 3 one/2 – four hours.

  • Stir inwards zucchini, pasta, green beans, garlic, in addition to fix on high estrus too additional 30 minutes or until pasta is tender.


Adding zucchini, beans and pasta to slow cooker.



  • Stir inwards spinach, kidney beans too cannellini beans, and parsley as well as cook several minutes until heated through.


Adding beans, spinach and parsley to minestrone.


You can also make it on the stovetop:



  • Heat olive fossil oil inward a big pot. Saute carrots, celery as well as onions, and then garlic.

  • Pour in broth, tomatoes, herbs, southward&P.

  • Bring to a boil, trim oestrus, comprehend in addition to simmer ten minutes.

  • Add zucchini, dark-green beans in addition to pasta, comprehend in addition to simmer x – xv minutes longer, or until pasta is tender.

  • Add kidney as well as cannelini beans and spinach and ready ii minutes longer.


Minestrone soup in slow cooker


Can I Use Different Pasta?


Don’t take pasta shells? Use whatsoever brusk pasta form yous similar. You tin even omit it.


Is it Vegan?


Yes. This minestrone soup is vegan but serve with vegan parmesan or omit.


Can I Add Beef?


I actually don’t think it needs it merely yous could add together ground beef or Italian sausage.


Planning on Leftovers?


If y'all’re making this soup inwards advance together with plan on storing it for afterward and so DO NOT add together the pasta. It will absorb excess broth too become mushy if it’s left inwards the soup for also long. Instead, make the soup as instructed merely exclusively add together cooked pasta when serving.


Can I Freeze It?


This soup freezes well without the pasta. You tin freeze cooked pasta separately and so it doesn’t get mushy (toss with a picayune olive petroleum so it’ doesn’t stick likewise much).


Minestrone Soup


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Minestrone Soup


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Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup Olive Garden Copycat













This salubrious, flavorful minestrone soup is packed full of hearty vegetables, beans too pasta and it couldn't live easier to brand! 





Servings: half dozen servings


Prepxx minutes
Cookhalf-dozen hours
Ready inward: half-dozen hours 30 minutes




Ingredients

  • six i/two cups depression-sodium vegetable stock, then more equally desired
  • ii (xiv.v oz) cans diced tomatoes
  • one cup diced celery (3 stalks)
  • ane cup diced carrots (ii carrots)
  • 1 cup diced yellowish onion (ane minor)
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • ii tsp dried basil*
  • i tsp dried oregano
  • three/4 tsp dried rosemary, crushed
  • i/ii tsp dried thyme
  • Salt and freshly earth black pepper, to sense of taste
  • ane ane/3 cups zucchini sliced into one-half moons (one small-scale)
  • one ane/three cups frozen light-green beans (regular or Italian), thawed under warm H2O
  • one ane/3 cups minor or medium beat pasta
  • ii cups packed chopped fresh spinach
  • 1 (xv oz) tin night blood-red kidney beans, drained in addition to rinsed
  • i (xv oz) tin can white navy beans or cannellini beans, drained together with rinsed
  • 3 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley
  • Finely shredded parmesan or romano cheese, for serving


Instructions

  • Slow Cooker Method: Add vegetable stock, tomatoes, celery, carrots, onion, garlic, basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary to a 6 or vii-quart tiresome cooker. 
  • Season with common salt as well as pepper to sense of taste in addition to prepare on low heat seven - 8 hours or high iii 1/two - four hours.
  • Stir inwards zucchini, pasta, greenish beans, and ready on high heat and additional 20 - 30 minutes or until pasta is tender.
  • Stir in spinach, kidney beans together with cannellini beans, in addition to parsley and ready several minutes until heated through. 
  • Stir inwards more than vegetable broth to sparse as desired. Serve warm topped with Romano cheese.


Notes


  • *If yous don't have all of the dried herbs listed ane 1/2 Tbsp Italian seasoning tin can live used instead.


STOVETOP INSTRUCTIONS



  1. Heat two Tbsp olive rock oil inward a large pot over medium-high estrus

  2. Add carrots, celery as well as onions too saute 4 minutes adding inwards garlic during final infinitesimal of sauteing.

  3. Pour inward broth, H2O together with canned tomatoes. Add herbs together with season alongside common salt together with pepper to taste.

  4. Bring to a boil, encompass in addition to reduce heat slightly, permit to gently boil ten minutes, then add together zucchini, greenish beans and pasta, cover too gently boil ten - xv minutes longer, or until pasta is tender.

  5. Add kidney in addition to cannelini beans together with spinach together with cook ii minutes longer.





Nutrition Facts

Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup Olive Garden Copycat



Amount Per Serving


Calories 359
Calories from Fat 9



% Daily Value*

Fat 1gii%
Sodium 874mg38%
Potassium 1312mg37%
Carbohydrates 71g24%
Fiber 18g75%
Sugar 11g12%
Protein 18g36%

Vitamin A 5705IU114%
Vitamin C 36.4mg44%
Calcium 193mg19%
Iron vii.1mg39%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.


Nutrition values are estimates entirely. See total disclaimer hither.







Updates 12/29/18



  • Recipe originally listed ane/two tsp saccharide together with 2 bay leaves added as well just I felt these aren’t necessary as well as omitted to cutting downwards ingredients list.

  • Also listed was broth in addition to H2O, it makes more feel to use more flavorful broth so omitted H2O in addition to used only broth.

  • I found frozen Italian green beans so prefer those over canned (less salt, ameliorate season). Regular greenish beans will operate bang-up or even asparagus. If adding fresh greenish beans or asparagus chop together with add amongst zucchini.


 


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