Recipe: Appetizing Chicken Minestrone Soup

Chicken Minestrone Soup.

You can have Chicken Minestrone Soup using 28 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken Minestrone Soup

1. You need of Step one.
2. It's of oil.
3. Prepare of each chopped onion.
4. Prepare of garlic, minced.
5. It's of chopped celery.
6. It's of each chopped carrots.
7. It's of Step two.
8. You need of dry pint Cherry tomatoes-diced or 1 -14. 5 ounce can of diced.
9. You need of habanero pepper finely chopped (optional... we like it spicy:).
10. It's of red bell pepper-small dice.
11. Prepare of yellow bell pepper small dice.
12. It's of diced cooked chicken.
13. Prepare of tomato paste.
14. You need of each potato -small diced.
15. You need of chicken broth (stock).
16. It's of parsley.
17. It's of salt.
18. You need of black pepper.
19. You need of thyme.
20. Prepare of oregano.
21. It's of dry basil.
22. Prepare of Step three.
23. You need of elbow macaroni.
24. Prepare of (14 ouces +/-) white kidney beans.
25. You need of broccoli florets.
26. It's of small cauliflower florets.
27. Prepare of asparagus stalks cut thinly on a bias.
28. You need of scallion cut on a bias –added as 2 minutes before the soup is done.

Chicken Minestrone Soup step by step

1. In a large pot over medium heat. Add onion, celery, garlic and carrots; sauté for 4 minutes..
2. Add tomatoes, peppers, diced chicken, tomato paste, potato, chicken broth, parsley, salt, pepper, thyme, oregano and basil to the pot. Bring to a boil, cover, and reduce heat. Simmer for approximately 15 minutes until vegetables are barely tender..
3. Add the macaroni,white kidney beans broccoli, cauliflower and asparagus and simmer for 15 minutes more. Adjust as needed seasoning..
4. Add the scallions 2 minutes before the soup is done..