Hello lovelies, now that the temperature has dropped and autumn begins, I will spoil you with an appropriate recipe: Autumn minestrone with pumpkin and chestnuts. The best recipes develop coincidentally and that’s exactly how it was with this delicious minestrone.

Since the autumn school break will start next week, I have made it my goal to go less shopping and empty the pantry and freezer. Obviously I still had a pumpkin in the house – I hardly go without one in autumn – and I actually found most of the other ingredients in the freezer. Chickpeas, kidney beans and chestnuts – furthermore veggie left overs and peels which I keep in a small bag to make bouillon. It was quickly obvious that I will cook a minestrone with exactly these ingredients. I found some chard in my raised garden bed that has recently grown again.

Herbst-Minestrone mit Kürbis und Maroni

BOUILLON FROM LEFT OVER VEGGIES

At first I made a bouillon. When I have let over veggies or peels, I collect them in a bag in the freezer to turn them into a bouillon. You can use almost anything for it – onion and carrot peels, also broccoli stem, fennel or celery pieces. Simply sauté onions and garlic in a pot, add the frozen left over veggies, deglaze with wine and add some water. Let it simmer for about 1 hour and you have a delicious base for soups made out of left overs and food waste. Of course this isn’t necessary for this recipe but rather a tip for you.

But now on to the recipe for autumn minestrone with pumpkin and chestnuts:

Herbst-Minestrone mit Kürbis und Maroni
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Autumn minestrone with pumpkin and chestnuts

A delicious autumn minestrone warms up not only the body but the soul. It obtains a special flavor when adding chestnuts.
Prep Time:20 minutes
Cook Time:30 minutes
Total Time:50 minutes
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Ingredients

  • 1 large onion
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 2 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1- 1,2 l 33 – 40 oz. Bouillon
  • 400 gr 14 oz. pumpkin (i.e. butternut)
  • 200 gr 7 oz. chickpeas
  • 100 gr 3.5 oz. kidney beans
  • 100 gr /3.5 oz.) chestnuts
  • 3-5 stems of chard
  • 100 gr 3.5 oz. small noodles
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Parsley
  • Vegan parmesan

Instructions

  • Chop onions and garlic finely
  • Heat up olive oil in a pot, add onions and garlic and sauté them
  • Dice the pumpkin, add it to the pot and sauté it as well
  • If you use frozen chickpeas and beans add them to the pot now – if they are precooked or come in a glass add them later
  • Add the bouillon to the pot (depending on how much you want in your minestrone you can add some more)
  • Cover up and make it simmer at medium heat for 10-15 minutes until the pumpkin dice are soft
  • Now add chestnuts, beans and chickpeas (if they are precooked or come in a glass) and the chard stems
  • Then add the small noodles and depending on their cooking time make it simmer for an additional 7-10 minutes
  • Roughly chop the chard leaves and add them as well
  • Season with salt and pepper
  • Serve the minestrone with fresh parsley and vegan parmesan

The minestrone turned out really delicious, especially the interaction of pumpkin and sweet chestnuts truly amazed me. I made the soup for lunch and ate 2 plates right away. We had them again for dinner with the girls and they liked it as well. Child 1 picked out the kidney beans but liked the rest, child 2 ate 2 (in words: two!) full plates and assured me over and over again this is the best soup I have made in a long time – music to my ears.

As you can see on the pictures we like a lot of vegetables and less bouillon in our soup. But of course you can vary the amount of bouillon just the way you like it. The minestrone was particularly tasty to me with fresh parsley and some grated vegan parmesan (for instance from Violife). And aren’t the small noodles cute? I recently found them in an Italian store.

Of course you can vary your veggies and use up whatever is in your pantry, freezer or fridge and needs to be eaten.

Herbst-Minestrone mit Kürbis und Maroni

If the transition from summer to autumn was a little too sudden for you too, I can recommend this delicious autumn minestrone with pumpkin and chestnutsto you. It definitely warms up body and soul and is perfect for left over foods and kids like it – what more can you ask for.

You can find more great pumpkin recipes here on my blog.

Enjoy the sunny autumn days!

Love, Verena

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