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A Recipe by Richard Mann This delicious meatball minestroni is fast and easy to make (and thus, "mindless"), but tastes as if you'd spent all day slowly simmering these fabulous flavors together into this masterpiece of soups.
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Today's modern convenience foods are wonderful. While a made-from-scratch soup with your own soaked-overnight beans, home-canned tomatoes, and homemade meatballs is both delicious and satisfying to make, concocting a similar dish from canned and frozen pre-prepared ingredients is easy and fast. And these days, we really like fast things.
The miracle ingredient in this fabulous minestroni is the frozen meatballs. We buy them in large bags at Sam's Club and dearly love them in just about anything you can make with meatballs. (Ask me some time to give your our recipe for barbequed meatballs. They're so good we serve them at our family weddings.)
This recipe is "mindless" because all you have to do is open a couple of cans and a few bags of frozen stuff, toss them together in a pot, and you've got a warm, filling, tastes-like-you've-been-cooking-it-for-hours meal that you'll love. It's so easy!
Mindless Meatball Minestroni
2 14.5-ounce cans chicken broth
1 14.5-ounce can beef broth
1 pound frozen mixed vegetables
1 18-ounce bag frozen meatballs
1 14.5-ounce can stewed tomatoes
1/2 cup dry macaroni
1 15-ounce can light red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 1/2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
6 Tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese (fresh, if possible)
In a large Dutch oven or stock pot, heat the chicken and beef broth. Add the frozen vegetables and meatballs while they are still frozen (saves time). Add the canned tomatoes and the uncooked macaroni. Cover the pot and continue cooking until it boils, which takes about ten minutes.
When the soup mixture boils, uncover it and stir it well. Add the drained and rinsed kidney beans and the Italian seasoning. Reduce the heat to medium and continue cooking, stirring frequently. Cook until the macaroni is tender, which will be another six or seven minutes.
Serve immediately. Add a tablespoon of grated fresh Parmesan cheese to each bowl as a garnish.
Makes 6 single-bowl servings.
Based on a recipe originally appearing in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.
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The Bean Book Roy F. Guste, Jr., former proprietor of Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans and noted cookbook author, has put together this wonderful collection of recipes for bean dishes from around the world. Everything you can imagine is in here; the variety of recipes is amazing. It includes "light" versions and a full nutritional analysis of each recipe. How does Bourbon and Black Bean Pie sound? Highly recommended by Bean Bible!
Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with your Slow Cooker We usually feature bean cookbooks here, but this superb slow cooker (crock pot) cookbook has at least a hundred great bean recipes in it! My wife brought it home and I'm sold on it. The "Bean Main Dishes" section alone has 53 recipes. Recipes are short, simple, tasty, and don't use weird ingredients that you don't already have. And, while I'm excited about the bean recipes (the Sausage Bean Quickie will be the first one we try), the rest of the recipes also look wonderful. The cover says it's a "National #1 bestselling cookbook!" I believe it. Highly recommended by Bean Bible!
Easy Beans: Fast and Delicious Bean, Pea, and Lentil Recipes, Second Editon Now in a new and improved second edition, this easy-to-use and highly popular cookbook makes cooking with beans as easy as it can possibly be. No soaking beans, no complex recipes with wild, improbable ingredients. The book lives up to its promise of easy, tasty, fun recipes. Highly recommended by Bean Bible!
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