Classic Minestrone Soup Con Pesto Alla Genove

Ingredients

45 ml olive oil
2 onions
2 carrots
2 leeks
2 stalks celery
2 potatoes
260 gr dry beans
1 eggplant skinned
475 ml chicken broth
950 ml boiling water
2 tomatoes
140 gr cabbage
45 gr spinach
190 gr zucchini
80 gr pasta
3 pesto
50 gr basil leaves
1 garlic clove
24 gr pine nuts
120 ml olive oil

Instructions

In olive oil saute till soft onions, leeks, carrots, celery, and potatoes. Add dry beans, eggplant and cook down. Add chicken broth, water, salt, pepper, tomatoes and cook for about 1 hour covered. Add cabbage, spinach, zucchini. Add pasta. If too thick add more chicken broth. When done add pesto sauce. Courtesy of Ciao Italia cookbook. Submitted By WA6AWD@WOLFENET.COM (ALAN BURGSTAHLER) On 19 DEC 1995 182142 -0700