Reviewed: Mar. 26, 2012

I made the mistake of not reading the reviews before cooking this. It was nothing like minestrone and if I have to make huge alterations in order for it to be ver good, as most reviews did, then what's the point of a recipe? My husband will eat almost anything and loves leftovers--he actually tossed this one out and felt bad that I spent so much time on it when it wasn't worth the bother. This is not minestrone soup.

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jlmsienes

Reviewed: Feb. 10, 2012

This was an OK meal for me. I would make it again and give it another chance but with some changes. Definitely more broth because like some other people have said it turns out to be more of a stew than soup. Kidney beans need to boil separately as they took forever to cook and ruined everything else like the pasta and potatoes as they overcooked. The pasta needs to be put in the very last 10 minutes of cooking because it became so mushy at the end. And I added garlic but I think the onion and garlic should be fried separately a little before putting in the stock and the rest of the vegetables. oh I also left out the cabbage and corn, it was too much for me.

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Senite

Reviewed: Sep. 28, 2011

Delicious & loaded with veggies. I took the advise of some other reviews & added an extra 15 oz can of stewed tomatoes & vegetable stock. I omitted the corn & only did 1/2 head of cabbage. This is definitely a keeper.

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gale

Reviewed: May 1, 2011

best sangia ever, better than any resteraunt

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jguillory

Reviewed: Mar. 21, 2011

Good soup. Need to cook the cabbage at least 20 minutes longer than recipe calls for. Skipped the orzo since we had beans, potatoes and some nice, crusty bread to soak up the sauce. Would make it again.

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anne377

Reviewed: Mar. 12, 2011

awesome!!! made this for myself after a getting over stomach virus... it was super easy, super yummy and hit the spot:)

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Lisa Munoz

Reviewed: Feb. 9, 2011

Outstanding! This is a wonderful soup. No cabbage, celery, corn. I subed the stewed tomatos with a can of diced tomatos and added diced potato. Next time I will get all the ingrediants and make it, I'm sure it'll only be better! Thanks

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Soup Lover-Sue

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Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2010

Delicious....I doubled it for a crowd. To original recipe, add 6 cans of chicken broth to make it more like soup instead of stewlike. I browned 3 chopped garlic cloves and onion in 1 TB of olive oil and added. Did not double the cabbage. Added 3 TB. of Italian seasoning and 1 garbanzo beans and 1 kidney beans when doubling. Exchanged canned green beans instead of the corn. Used spiral wheel type pasta for fun instead of orzo. Everyone loved it.

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Sandy

Reviewed: Oct. 27, 2010

This recipe is just ok. I made it for lunch for 40 women. First of all, it took way too long for the vegetables to cook in the liquid. I would recommend cooking them beforehand in a skillet then adding them later. I am not sure if it is the vegetable broth or not but the soup tastes a bit bland. I am not sure if switching to chicken broth would be better. I did add ground turkey to the soup to add a bit of flavor. That did help.. I'm not sure if I will make this again considering there are probably a ton of other minestrone recipes to try!

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gigirig

Reviewed: Aug. 7, 2010

taste awesome but need change I changed to 16 cups of chicken stock cut the cabbage in half boil lot of ox tail in a separate pot with lot of salt and ginger powder for 10 mins, than discard the liquid and move the tail to pot. simmer the soup for 1 hour long

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