Michelle'S Minestrone

15 ingredients
1 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups dried navy beans, washed
  • 9 cups water
  • 3 medium carrots, chopped
  • 1 lb. italian sausage
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 medium onions, chopped
  • 5 stalks celery, chopped
  • 3 medium zucchini, chopped
  • 4 tbls dried basil
  • 1/2 tsp ground sage
  • 1 bunch parsley, minced
  • 2 16 oz. cans tomatoes, chopped
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons black pepper
  • 1 1/2 cups elbow macaroni, cooked al dente

Directions

  1. 1
    {"0":"In a large heavy kettle, place the beans, water, and carrots. Bring the liquid to a boil. Cover the pot and simmer the beans for 2 to 3 hours","2":"In a large skillet, place the sausage and fry it on medium heat until it is well cooked. Remove the sausage and set it aside. Leave the drippings in the skillet.","4":"In the same skillet (with the drippings) add the garlic, onions, celery, zucchini, basil, sage, and parsley. Saute the vegetables on medium high heat until the onions are transparent.","6":"Add the sauteed vegetables, chopped tomatoes, salt, and pepper to the soup.","8":"Chop the sausage and add it to the soup.","10":"Simmer the soup for 1 more hour.","12":"Add the elbow macaroni and stir it in.","16":"Snaketruck's additional notes:","17":"I use only 1 1\/2 tsp black pepper, but I only use fresh ground pepper, which maybe is a little stronger than already-ground","18":"I fry the sausage, remove it, fry the veggies and then chop the sausage into little bite-size pieces and give it one more fry after the veggies go from the frying pan into the soup.","19":"I'm slow chopping veggies (I just like my veggies to be perfectly bite-sized), so I start washing veggies & chopping when the carrots and beans have been on for 90 minutes. By the time I'm done frying everything, the soup carrot-bean mix has been simmering for about 2.5 hrs.","20":"Once the sausage & veggies are in the soup, I let it simmer for a half hour, then get the elbow mac' cooking. Elbow mac is in the soup about 15 minutes later, and then I just let the soup go about 15-20 minutes more.","22":"Navy beans are not great northern beans! I've made this mistake a couple of times.","24":"Serves 8 according the recipe, but I'd say more like 10-12."}

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