Souper Ideas--Minestrone Soup for Dinner

This is the time of year when eating soup for dinner is a good idea. Chilly days and even chillier evenings just make good "soup for supper" days. This article offers some delicious ideas for great Minestrone Soup meals.

How to Make a Meal out of Minestrone Soup --Serve Your Minestrone Soup with Turkey Cobb Salad

Since Minestrone Soup is known for not containing much, if any meat, some people might not see how they can make a meal with Minestrone Soup as the main dish. Particularly for those who can't imagine having a vegetarian meal, they get stuck on how to present Minestrone Soup as the main course.

One of the best ways to ensure you get plenty of vitamins and minerals and some meat also is to try serving a salad with protein alongside the soup. One salad in particular, Turkey Cobb Salad, makes an excellent meal when paired with Minestrone Soup. Here is the link to Martha Stewart's Turkey Cobb Salad recipe, this writer's favorite.

Make this salad your own by changing ingredients to suit your tastes. For example, consider switching out the bleu cheese with shredded cheddar cheese if you are not a bleu cheese fan. Also, feel free to use your own salad dressing, if you have a personal favorite. Go ahead and buy a hunk of good turkey breast at your local deli to use for this Turkey Cobb Salad.

Serve some freshly warmed crackers (in the oven at 275 degrees for 4 or 5 minutes, and you have a great meal. To make this soup meal even heartier, serve a variety of sliced cheeses to eat with the crackers, salad and soup.

Another Way to Make a Meal from Minestrone Soup--Serve Your Minestrone Soup with a Sandwich

Of course that old stand-by, soup and sandwich will definitely work with Minestrone Soup, especially for the meat-lovers. Make a roast beef, chicken, turkey or even a fish sandwich with all the fixings you like and serve it with your Minestrone Soup for dinner on those cold evenings.

Homey, easy to make and always satisfying, your favorite sandwich pairs up nicely with Minestrone Soup. Take a look at this link for a great sandwich called, "Dad's Chicken Sandwich" that you can make with rotisserie chicken from your grocery store. Dad's Chicken Sandwich is a nice accompaniment to your soup.

Recipes for Minestrone Soup

Minestrone Soup recipes are as varied as the number of vegetables available to you on any given day at your grocery store. Here are some links to 3 different Minestrone Soup recipes to try. Review ingredients of each recipe first to see which soup you prefer. This writer cooks a lot of the third recipe--Minestrone Soup like Olive Garden's.

Minestrone Soup that Resembles Carrabba's Italian Restaurant Minestrone Soup

If you have ever eaten at a Carrabba's Italian Restaurant, you know just how wonderfully their food is prepared. The Minestrone at Carrabba's happens to be unusual, as Minestrone Soup goes. Connoisseurs believe this soup has beef stock as its base and even has prosciutto in it. So, if you want more unusual Minestrone, try this link for a recipe for Minestrone Soup that resembles Carrabba's.

Giada De Laurentiis's Winter Minestrone Soup

Rated 5 stars on a 5 star scale by over 40 people online, this recipe for Winter Minestrone is found on the Food Network website. Winter Minestrone is a recipe by Giada De Laurentiis that contains pancetta and potatoes, too. Here's the link to the recipe for Giada De Laurentiis's Winter Minestrone Soup.

Minestrone Soup that Resembles the Olive Garden's Minestrone Soup

This writer's favorite of the Minestrone Soup recipes, this link leads you to a scrumptious recipe for Minestrone Soup similar to Olive Garden's. In fact, this writer finds this soup to actually be tastier than Olive Garden's. See what you think.

Sources

Food.com website.

Food Network website.

Personal experience.

Restaurant Recipes Book website.