{"id":30398,"date":"2024-02-05T18:55:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nourishdeliciously.com\/?p=30398"},"modified":"2024-02-05T18:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:55:59","slug":"minestrone-with-pesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nourishdeliciously.com\/?p=30398","title":{"rendered":"Minestrone with Pesto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a gorgeous soup to add lots of healthy vegetables into one’s diet. Its warming, nutritious and a perfect comfort food in this cold rainy weather. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We love Italy and travel to this gorgeous country quite regularly, One thing I’ve noticed when you go beyond the touristy locations and into local neighborhoods, smaller towns the food tends to be simple, authentically regional and made with lots of fresh ingredients like local veggies, artisan cheeses, breads, pastas, whole grains and little meat. The pasta portions are dramatically smaller than normally served outside Italy and so so delicious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our last trip to Italy we spend a couple of weeks in the Ligurian Riviera, Fall 2022. Perched in the Ligurian coastal mountains are these beautiful villages of Cinque Terre, once fishing villages now over run by tourists made popular by Instagram. Anyway when we were there the Disney animated movie “Luca” had just released and the ads were all over, even plastered all over the local trains that takes you through all the 5 villages. And rightly so because the movie is set in the Cinque Terre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where the classic pesto comes from. The pesto here was nothing like I had before, I literally ate a bowl by the spoonful. One of days while we were there I ordered a minestrone soup with basil pesto stirred into it. Nothing unusual, but in combination with the vegetable soup the flavors were outstanding. The soup was full of local veggies, so rich, flavorful, it was simply amazing. This is my version of the soup I had in La Spizia, Liguria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to Make Minestrone with Pesto<\/h2>\n\n\n\n