OK, I may have oversold this recipe in the headline a bit, but trust me, you’ll love it. It’s easy to make, it’s vegan, it’s healthy, and it is perfection. I can’t get enough of it. Go out and buy the ingredients and make it today!
Ingredients
* Various veggies, diced (you can use any kind that you like, but I usually throw in squash (butternut, though any kind is great), celery, carrots, corn, fresh spinach and broccoli — zucchini would be another good choice) * One yellow onion, diced * A couple cloves of garlic, diced * Vegetable bullion, four cubes * 1 package pasta (any kind except the longer ones like spaghetti or linguini is good — I like the bow-tie pasta or shell pasta) * 1 can each kidney beans and white beans * 1 can stewed tomatoes * water * olive oil, a few tablespoons * salt and black pepper and Italian seasoning to taste
Directions
* Dice all the veggies and open the cans of beans (and corn if you’re using canned corn); be sure not to skin the squash — just scoop out the seeds and dice it up * Heat up the olive oil in a large pot and saute the onion and garlic * throw in all the veggies except the spinach; stir and heat up until veggies start to get a little soft * Season veggies with some salt, pepper and Italian seasoning * throw in the beans, pasta, stewed tomatoes, and enough water so that the pot is nearly full (not all the way!); heat on high until boiling, then turn down to medium heat * mix vegetable bullion with warm water in a cup until dissolved, and pour into soup; boil until pasta nearly cooked * throw in the spinach a couple minutes before the soup is done; when the pasta is cooked, the soup is done; be sure to season with more salt, pepper and Italian seasoning to taste — you know when it is seasoned right when you taste it and say, “Oh … my … God!”
Enjoy! You will love this. Serve it to friends, and tell them how you found this recipe on Zen Habits. Or do what I do, and pack it for lunch every day for a week. I never get tired of it.
Update: I forgot an ingredient - stewed tomatoes - so I added it in.
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Has anyone ever managed to find a tin of tomatoes in Egypt let alone Italian seasoning, is this the eat like an Egyptian forum Posts: 3809 | From: Paradise | Registered: Mar 2003
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Nope, I have to make my own stewed tomatoes. I pop some tomatoes in a big batch of boiling water until the skins start to peel and then immerse them in cold water and the skins peel off. I store them in a jar in the fridge and they are REALLY tasty and much better than canned. Try it. I'm sure someone will say they're available at Carrefour, blah blah blah, not everyone lives near a Carrefour so we have to improvise. Posts: 13440 | Registered: Feb 2006
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Nope not even in Carrefour Smucks, and yes this was one reason I finally bought a blender even though I hate washing them up...no sorry was just being a bit sarcastic. We have so many posts with absolutely nothing to do with Egypt.
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Carrefour and Hyper one sell small and huge tins of stewed tomatoes Smuckers. You can open a big one and freeze the rest in bags.
I am going to do my own sun dried ones this year and bottle in olive oil
would be interesting to see how many of the recipes actually originate in Egypt? or is it just that folk want to share good recipes? what's the problem?
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yes yes yes carrefour, everything is in carrefour, I don't live in Cairo or any other big city where there is a carrefour. Everything I make has to be homemade (which is much tastier but takes more time).
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Penny, where are you girl ? There are canned tomatoes all over the place. I prefer fresh vine ripened tomatoes, but these I can't find so now use the canned ones.
Roasting the normal ones is easy and gives a nice taste. Also, grating them over a cheese grater makes a quick sauce minus the skin.
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hi Penny you can make up your own jar of Italian Seasoning. its.... 2 teaspoons dried basil 2 teaspoons dried marjoram 2 teaspoons dried oregano 1 teaspoon dried sage
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hi undercover. love your recipe...gonna steal it. am a soup freak and hubby is too. thanks again
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