Dish · italian
Minestrone
A thick vegetable soup built on whatever's in season, usually including beans, carrot, celery, and tomato, sometimes with pasta or rice added near the end. It's closer to a stew than a broth.
Where it comes from
The soup grew out of peasant cooking across Italy, using vegetables that were cheap, local, and often left over, with no fixed recipe or region claiming it as their own. Every area of the country has its own version built around local produce.
What cooks argue about
Since the recipe was never fixed, the real argument is what belongs in it at all: some cooks insist on pasta or rice, others see that as padding the soup doesn't need.
Versions
Nobody has published a minestrone here yet. When somebody cooks one from a video and publishes it, their version appears in this list, with a link back to the original.
What goes in it
Each one opens everything else made with it.
carrot
celery
onion
cannellini beans