minestrone
Sign in to savethumb|Minestrone Minestrone ( , ) or minestrone di verdure is a thick vegetable soup of Italian origin. It typically includes onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, often legumes, such as beans, chickpeas or fava beans, and sometimes pasta or rice, and is characterized by the mixture of different vegetables and not very fine pieces (otherwise it is called ). Minestrone is traditionally made without meat, but it has no precise recipe and can be made with many different ingredients.
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- Minestrone
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- Homemade minestrone
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- Minestrone di verdure
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- Italy
- Food.course
- Primo (Italian course)
- Food.type
- Vegetable soup
- Food.main_ingredient
- Onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, legumes (beans, chickpeas, fava beans)
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- Pasta, rice
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thumb|Minestrone Minestrone ( , ) or minestrone di verdure is a thick vegetable soup of Italian origin. It typically includes onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, often legumes, such as beans, chickpeas or fava beans, and sometimes pasta or rice, and is characterized by the mixture of different vegetables and not very fine pieces (otherwise it is called ). Minestrone is traditionally made without meat, but it has no precise recipe and can be made with many different ingredients.
==Etymology== The word minestrone, meaning a thick vegetable soup, is attested in English from 1871. It is from the Italian minestrone, the augmentative form of minestra, 'soup', or more literally 'that which is served', from minestrare, 'to serve', and cognate with administer as in 'to administer a remedy'.