For my first post on this blog I am going to give you guys an accidental Minsrone Soup recipe! It's super easy and the kids can help!! In fact for it to come out right you really need the kids!
What you need:
1 lb Ground beef
Box of whole wheat rigatoni noodles
1 can Hunts 4 cheese spaghetti sauce
1 can diced Italian tomato's
2 cans of beans of your choice
(You can always do 1lb bag dry, just remember to soak your beans over night.)
4 carrots
1 onion
1 cup frozen corn
1 cup frozen green beans
Salt
Pepper
If you have one I have found a 2 year old rounds out this recipe!
Get all your ingredients together. Don't forget the 2 year old! You are going to start this recipe like your making spaghetti with tomato Meat sauce. Fill a stock pot with 8 cups water and set stove to medium high heat. When the water starts boiling dump in your noodles. Let your 2 year old "mix" the noodles while you get everything else ready.
Next you are going to open all your cans! Make sure you put them all within the 2 year olds reach. This is critical to the recipe! Also make sure they have easy access to a shaker of salt.
Now turn you back on the 2 year old. Get the meat out of the fridge, get the ingredients you forgot, or the pan to cook your meat in. Any of those activities will work. Turn around and to your horror your rigatoni dinner has now become a soup because your 2 year old has dumped EVERY can within reach into you pot of rigatoni and has shook about a table spoon of salt in as well!!!
Ok. Calm down. This is where the other ingredients come in. Dump all you frozen veggies in the pot, peel and cut up your carrots into disks, put them in the pot, dump your beans in, and brown your beef. When the meat is browned use you spatula to scoop you meat into the pot. At this point you may need to add a couple more cups of water. Dice up an onion and put it in you greasy beef pan. Cook the onion until carmalized then add them into your soup. Add a little more salt and pepper to taste.
Turn the stove down to low and let simmer for about 20 min.
This recipe makes a lot of soup so you will have left overs and might want to freeze some!
We serve it with garlic bread and it's yummy!!
