Italian Grandma Makes Minestrone Soup

Hello, I'm Gina. Today I'm going to make minestrone soup. Something easy. I just say let me do something nice and easy. But I have everything. But first of all, last night I make the beans in the water. The cannellini beans. And I put last night with the garlic and belly. Now I gotta wash. And I make the cleaning water. And we gotta cook. And then we do the rest. Okay, now I gotta wash. Just a bit. The beans. I wash a little bit. I take the belly off. The belly, I take it off. I have a filter of water. See, I have a filter of water. I think enough. Now we see. When I put the beans, I saw they're okay. Put over there. Beans. They come here. That's the water. Put the water. And this is the beans. I think I gotta put a little more water. That's it. That's enough. That's the water enough. Okay. Then I gotta cook. Let me put a few of milk. That's the color. And leave it there. Now we gotta do the rest. Now I start something else. All right. Now I gotta make the rest. I'm on the stove. That's the pot. And that's the oil. I'm gonna make the oil first. That's the oil. Olive oil. Maybe about three spoons of oil. Like three spoons of oil. About three spoons of oil. All right. And then put a few of milk. And wait until the oil is hot. Then we start to put the rest. All right. The oil is hot now. I wanna put onions. Onion first. You see? Onion first. You gotta put. You see? And when the oil is ready, they make noise. You can tell the oil is ready. You see? Then add the garlic. Garlic go together with onion. This is garlic. This is the garlic. Okay? And go there. Now let it fry a little bit the onion and garlic. Then we put the celery and carrot. Something easy. You know. Minestrone. It's all together. That's good. Especially in the wintertime. Something nice. Broth. Soup. Like soup. Minestrone. Okay. Ave Maria Regine del cielo Sovrano di grazia e madre mia Che ascolto ogni orla fervente e prechiera Non e caria questo strazio del mio cuore Di fuoco ardente che sulle tia La pace che solo tu puoi donare Ave Maria I think the onion is done. Now I got to put... See? The onion is done. Some of this start to red. I put the celery. See the celery? A lot of celery. I put the celery. Now you can put everything. I put the celery. Now I put the carrot. This is the carrot. See? That's the carrot. And I got to fry a little bit. I got to fry this a little bit. All right. Now I make a little salt. I want to make a little salt. That's the salt. I put a little bit at a time. Later we taste. I put a little bit now. Like this. And later I put another little bit. Just a bit at a time. That's the parsley. And we put this, the parsley. And you can put it, see? That's the parsley. A little bit of black pepper. A little black pepper. You can put it. Just a little bit. You taste later. Depends on some people they like more. Some people they like... Some people they like nothing, you know. The way... It's your choice how much you want to put. See? Now they got to fry. Now I make the celery, carrot. Now I put the potato. The potato too. They go here, see? The potato, they go here. And they got to fry. See? They got to fry. After this, we got to make the tomato. That's the tomato. The tomato I make. See when I make the tomato? Look, I put it. That's the tomato in the jar. It's nice and red. You see? Now I put the tomato. I put all the jar. To be strong, I need a lot of tomato. See? And look, it's nice and red, see? Yeah? Now I got to broke a little bit. Broke a little bit of the tomato. I put another little bit of the salt. Let me put a little... Un altro pizzico di sale. Un pizzico di sale, see? Un pizzico di sale. You got to cook. And you want something to eat. Now we wait a little bit. And then we put a little water. I have the jar. I put something in the jar. I forgot. This is the jar. You can wash like this. You put here. It's nothing. All right. Let me see what they look over there. Ah, okay. Look at this. They boil. All the tomatoes, they broke. Now the vegetables, they start to cook. But I want to pour a little bit. I have a little oregano here. I want to pour a little bit. Somebody like, they pour. Somebody they don't like, they don't pour. Something a piacere. Something you like, you pour. Now I put water. And when the water boil, we put the scarola. They go all the water. They go all the way. We got a nice minestrone. A lot of vegetables. A lot of vegetables, tomatoes. Ah, see? Now when they boil, we put the scarola. Let it stay. I want to check the beans. Let me see the beans, what they do. Let me see the beans. They boil. You see, they boil. The beans, they boil. They're not ready. They're not ready yet. Now they got to stay. And now we wait that boil the water. Pour a little oil when we wait for that. And then they got to boil. If they boil, let me see, let me check. Yeah, they boil, you see? Now they boil. See they boil? Now I got to put the scarola. Everything, they broke. Now I put the scarola. All right. This have two bunches of scarola. I chop and I put it here. I wash, I wash and I put it here. Little by little they go. That's the minestrone. Minestrone. All vegetables. Yeah. I leave a little bit like this. I put a cove and they go down. With the vapor, they go down. It will be five minutes. Now let me check. Let me check, let me check. They go down, you see? The scarola go down, you see? Now the scarola go down. Okay. Now let cook a little bit of the scarola. And we have something else to put over here. Let it stay a little bit this. And now I want to check the beans. I got to put a little salt in the beans. Let me see. I got to check the beans. That's the beans. Let me put a little salt. Okay, that's it. That's enough. Almost. They almost done. All right, this is done, you see? This is done. The scarola all cooked. The tomato put there and now everything is done. Now I got to put the beans. The cannellini beans and now they go here. And then I saw we need more water. I put water, everything. All right. I shut it off here. And I put this one. I put it like this. Look at the cannellini. That's the cannellini. Go over here. Okay. Now we got to turn. I got to turn. And we make a big pot. You see the big pot? All mix. And now I have more. I have the string beans. The string beans I got in the summertime. And when it's a lot, I put in the freeze. And I use enough. Let me see. You see? This I make in the summertime. When I have a lot of string beans, I cook a little bit. This I put in the bag and then in the freeze. Now I put over there. This you can use. When you have extra, you use in the wintertime. See? This I put over there. And that's more tea. That's it. I think we put everything in there. Now they got to cook a little bit. They look like frozen, but they're done. They're defrost already. Everything is cooked. They're defrost. And we have a lot more to put over there. We got to make a little pasta. We have more to put over there. We got to make a little pasta. I have the pasta here. Now I put over there. I put a few of milk. Put the water. When it's ready, we put the pasta. Almost done, see? The water boiler. Let me see. The water boiler. Wow, how beautiful. First, let me put a little salt. A little bit of salt. A little bit. And then I put the pasta. We want a little pasta. Because tonight, everybody here, I make a big pot. See? We need a little pasta. Add that over there. Okay. Now while they cook, put here. Okay, now I put the pasta. Let me check here. I not taste the salt. I want to taste the salt. Okay, let me see. I not taste the salt. What is it? I put a couple times. Let me taste the salt. I need a spoon. Now we need a little more. We need a little more. I think. Okay. That's it. When the pasta is done, we put over there. Take the pasta. Now we need more water here. You know what I do? It's hot water here. You can put in here. They have to taste the pasta too. When I drop the pasta, I put a little more water here. All right. The pasta almost done. They have to finish in here. But I have to pick up a little water. They need more water over there. I got to put more water here. This water have to taste the pasta. It's hot. We need more water. Okay. That thing is enough. Now I drain the pasta and we put over there. Okay. Almost, almost finish. Now we drain the pasta. Put over there. And then I put over here. Put over there. I come here. Oh, my God. That's too hot. All right. This is the pasta. A little bit, a little bit. That's the pasta. It's done, this too. Now we turn. Hey, minestrone, minestrone, look. We have everything here. All right. This is it. Now just stay one minute. One minute the pasta that take the taste. And then we put up. That's enough. All done. My green juice wet over there. All right. Hurry up. Okay. We got to eat now. Okay. That's my soup. Like I say, today we make a big pot. Because my green juice, they wet over there. Not a little bit, not a little bit. We serve, okay? And that's what they come. They come big soup. And I got to taste me too. I got to taste. All right. And let me see. This is, I make my dish. This is my dish. Let me put, you can put a little cheese like this. And you taste, see? Over here you have everything. You have beans. You got all the string beans. Got all the celery. Everything is here. Everything. That's why they call minestrone. Bon appetit. I like it. I like it so much. Oh boy. Mmm. Come and pick it up, eh? Everybody wet over there. Now we got to make a dish. We got to make a dish. And we eat all together. Okay? I want to say thank you everybody for watching me. And I see you next time. Okay? God bless you and goodbye. Bye. Bye bye. If you like this video, click the thumbs-up and subsctribe. 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