Italian Vegetable Soup With Zucchini Recipes

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• In a Dutch oven, brown sausage with onion; drain excess fat. Add the next eight ingredients; cover and simmer 1 hour. Stir in zucchini and simmer 10 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese if desired.

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• Mix zucchini, tomatoes, bell pepper, celery, onion, tomato soup, sugar, salt, and pepper together in a stock pot; stir and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer until the zucchini is tender, about 30 minutes.

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• In a small bowl mash half of the beans with a masher or the back of a spoon, and set aside.
• Heat the oil in a large soup pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion, carrots, celery, zucchini, garlic, thyme, sage, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper, and cook stirring occasionally until the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes.
• Add the broth and tomatoes with the juice and bring to a boil. Add the mashed and whole beans and the spinach leaves and cook until the spinach is wilted, about 3 minutes more.
• Serve topped with Parmesan, if desired.

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• In a large saucepan, combined the first nine ingredients.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender.
• Add the pasta and tomatoes; heat through.
• Discard bay leaf before serving.

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• Heat the oil in a heavy large pot over medium heat. Add the leeks and saute until translucent, about 8 minutes. Add the garlic and saute until tender, about 2 minutes. Stir in the zucchini and artichokes. Season the vegetables with salt and pepper. Saute until the zucchini are tender, about 10 minutes. Add the vegetable broth. Stir in the thyme and cook for 2 minutes. Cover the pot and bring the soup to a simmer. Decrease the heat to medium-low and simmer gently until the flavors develop, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes. Increase the heat to medium-high. Add the noodles and cook until al dente, stirring constantly, about 5 minutes.
• Ladle the soup into bowls. Sprinkle with Parmesan and serve.

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• In a 6-qt. stockpot, cook and crumble sausage over medium-high heat until no longer pink, 5-7 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon., Add celery, onion and seasonings to same pot; cook and stir until onion is tender, 4-6 minutes. Stir in sausage and remaining ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, until zucchini and peppers are tender, about 30 minutes. Freeze option: Freeze cooled soup in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally.

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a heavy large pot over medium heat. Add the leeks and saute until translucent, about 8 minutes. Add the garlic and saute until tender, about 2 minutes.
• Stir in the zucchini and artichokes. Season the vegetables with salt and pepper. Saute until the zucchini are tender, about 10 minutes.
• Add the vegetable broth. Stir in the thyme and cook for 2 minutes. Cover the pot and bring the soup to a simmer. Decrease the heat to medium-low and simmer gently until the flavors develop, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes.
• Increase the heat to medium-high. Add the noodles and cook until al dente, stirring constantly, about 5 minutes.
• Ladle the soup into bowls. Sprinkle with Parmesan and serve.

Steps:

• Peel and coarsely chop onion to measure about 3 cups.
• Heat oil in dutch oven.
• Add onions, carrots and celery.
• Sauté for 5 to 7 minutes or until crisp tender.
• In separate small skillet, brown sausage and when almost done add garlic and fennel.
• Add tomatoes to sautéed vegetables, breaking up with spoon.
• Add broth, water, zucchini and beans.
• Drain grease from sausage and add to pot.
• Add remaining seasonings and simmer for about 10 minutes.

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• In large saucepan or Dutch oven, bring broth, tomatoes, carrots, frozen green beans, celery, onions, garlic, parsley, basil, bay leaf and vegetable bouillon cube to a boil.
• Reduce heat.
• Cover and simmer 15 minutes.
• Stir in macaroni, kidney beans, and zucchini.
• Bring soup back to a boil, and then reduce heat to simmer.
• Cover and cook for 10-15 minutes.
• Remove bay leaf and serve.

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• In a 3-quart saucepan, brown sausage and onion and drain.
• Stir in beans, tomatoes, broth, water, zucchini, and basil. Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes or until zucchini is tender.
• Sprinkle each serving with cheese.