🥕 Dump-and-Simmer Minestrone

🥕 Dump-and-Simmer Minestrone

A deeply nourishing, no-fuss vegetable soup

✨ Description

This is one of those back-pocket soups you can make anytime, with whatever you have on hand. Everything goes straight into the pot 🫙, the stove does the work 🔥, and time gently brings the flavours together. The long simmer softens the cabbage, sweetens the carrots, and creates a mineral-rich, comforting soup that feels grounding and restorative 🤍.

Add macaroni if you want something more filling 🍝, or keep it simple as a vegetable soup.
This is nourishment without complication.

🛒 Ingredients

• 2 litres vegetable broth 🫖

• 1 onion, chopped 🧅

• 3–5 garlic cloves, chopped 🧄

  • or 1 tablespoon garlic powder

• 3–5 carrots, sliced 🥕

• ½ medium head green cabbage, sliced 🥬

• Optional: 1–2 cups yellow beans, chopped 🌱

• 1 tablespoon poultry seasoning 🌿

• Black pepper, to taste

• Optional: 1 cup macaroni 🍝

  • whole wheat, gluten free, or whatever you have

• Salt, to taste 🧂

🍲 Instructions

1. Add the broth to a large pot and place on the stove over high heat.

2. Add all vegetables, garlic (or garlic powder), poultry seasoning, and black pepper.

3. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer gently for 1–1½ hours ⏳.

4. If using, add the macaroni and simmer for another 10 minutes, until just tender.

5. Taste and adjust salt and pepper as needed.

That’s it. Dump, simmer, nourish 💛

🌿 Nutrition Commentary

This soup is rich in fibre, potassium, and plant compounds that support digestion and hydration. Cabbage provides sulphur-containing nutrients that support the body’s natural detox pathways, while carrots add antioxidants and gentle sweetness 🥕✨.

The long simmer makes this soup easy to digest and especially supportive for the nervous system 🧠🤍. Adding pasta makes it more grounding and sustaining, while keeping it out creates a lighter, vegetable-forward soup. Either way, this is the kind of meal that warms you from the inside out 🔥🥣.