Vegetable soup

Main ingredient of the recipe:Onions
Difficulty: Easy
Cooking time: 50 min
Preparation: 30 min
Serves 6
Ingredients for the soup
Water -1 liter and 1 / 2
Garlic -2 cloves
Basil -4-5 leaves
Carrots -2
Onions -1 large
Nuts -Plant 2
Beans -1 can pinto beans or 50 g shelled fresh
Potatoes -2 medium
Pepper -ground to taste
Tomatoes -50 gr
Parsley -1 bunch chopped
Sale -qb
Celery -3 stalks
Zucchini -2
To dress ...
Oil -extra virgin olive oil to taste
Parmigiano Reggiano -grated to taste

Preparation:
Put on a pot containing a fire and a half liters of water and bring to a boil, then add two dice vegetables and a bit 'of salt .
Wash all vegetables and put them to drain. Peel the onion and garlic and chop coarsely, check the zucchini and cut into cubes, and proceed in the same manner in the stalks of celery (which you may remove the filaments), the tomatoes (seeded inside), the carrots and the potatoes peeled beforehand.

When the water boil, buttateci into previously cut all the vegetables, and add a box of beans, pinto beans, then simmer for around 40-50 minutes: Meanwhile, chop the parsley and chop the basil coarsely, then 10 minutes before to extinguish the fire add to the rest of the vegetables, pepper and adjust if necessary salt .

Serve the vegetable soup, a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and raw, if you like the Parmigiano Reggiano cheese.


■ Council
Can add to the soup, according to taste or season, various other vegetables, such as pumpkin , the green beans , the spinach , the leeks , the beets , the broccoli , the cabbage , onions, herbs, the peas , etc. ... or you could even freeze it yourself and use them during the months in which they are not on the market.

To make the soup more attractive to children (who do not like to see pieces of vegetables in the pot), you could pass it with the help of a blender, add the pasta short (type thimbles striped) or rice , and plenty of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese.
■ Curiosity '
Often to give more flavor to the soup (but a bit 'at the expense of lightness), the onion and garlic are first sauteed and then tossed into the pot, or you add bacon (also formerly of pork rinds pork ) seasoning used in Liguria the soup with a spoon of pesto.