Classic Minestrone Soup Con Pesto Alla Genovese

Ingredients

45 ml olive oil
2 onions
2 carrots
2 leeks whites only
2 stalks celery
2 potatoes
260 gr dry beans soaked
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 heaping
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.