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This recipe is adapted from The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution. As much as I don't want it to be winter yet, I was able to use mostly produce from last week's CSA pickup.

This week’s Sunday Supper theme is Healthy Green Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day, and I knew I had to share something featuring kale!

When I’m part of a CSA, I often turn to The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution. This recipe uses winter vegetables including turnips, kale, and potatoes. If you are not fond of turnips you can substitute another root vegetable. One of the great things about minestrone is that it is SO adaptable.

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Winter Minestrone with Turnips, Potatoes, and Kale

Servings 8

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1 large onion chopped
  • 2 carrots chopped
  • 2 stalks celery diced
  • 4 cloves garlic minced
  • 5 thyme sprigs or a dash of dried
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 small leeks chopped
  • 1 lb turnips diced; I think I used one turnip and one watermelon radish, oops
  • 1/2 lb potatoes diced
  • 1 bunch kale
  • 3 cups Great Northern beans

Instructions

  1. In a large soup pot, saute' the onion, carrots, and celery in the olive oil until golden brown.
  2. Add garlic, thyme, bay leaf, salt, and cook 5 more minutes.
  3. Add 3 C water and bring to a boil; add remaining vegetables and cook 15 minutes.
  4. Add beans, 1 C liquid, and cook another 5 minutes.

The Verdict: I was quite surprised at how much flavor this soup had – and I didn’t even need to use any canned or boxed broth! I put a bit too much thyme in it (I’m guessing 2 Tbsp – a few tsp would have been plenty!) but it didn’t ruin it, surprisingly. DH loved it too and even had a couple of bowls before realizing there was no meat in it.

More Healthy Green Foods for St. Patrick’s Day

Healthy Green Main Meals

Super Green Side Dishes

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      • Liz

        Okay, I need to follow up on this. We are just finishing up eating “Royal Winter Vegetable Soup” my 3.5 year old who does not normally go for greens really liked it. She was especially fond of the “Purple Princess Kale” that I added. My 1.5 y/o son who doesn’t eat much of anything finished almost half of his big bowl with lots of Mmmmm’s along the way. Anyway…this was a hit! Maybe it was the “royal” additions for my daughter but it was good! Thanks for a GREAT recipe that I have already been asked to make again!

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