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Vegetable Minestrone

A brothy tomato-vegetable soup with white beans and small pasta.

Vegetable Minestrone, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
45 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$7.60

Ingredients

  • 15 oz canned cannellini beans
  • 28 oz canned diced tomatoes
  • 6 cup vegetable broth
  • 6 oz elbow macaroni
  • 1/2 lb carrots
  • 1/2 bunch celery
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 1 zucchini
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tsp italian seasoning blend
  • 2 tsp kosher salt

Method

  1. Cook the diced onion, carrot, and celery in the olive oil over medium heat for 8 minutes until softened.

  2. Add the minced garlic and Italian seasoning and cook 1 minute.

  3. Pour in the diced tomatoes and broth, add the salt, and bring to a simmer.

  4. Add the drained white beans and the diced zucchini and simmer 12 minutes.

  5. Stir in the dry macaroni and cook 9 minutes more, until the pasta is tender.

  6. Taste for salt and finish each bowl with a drizzle of olive oil.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 12 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£37.42£9.3612 of 12 ingredients
Canada$85.82$21.4612 of 12 ingredients
United States$30.41$7.6011 of 12 ingredients
Australia$47.89$11.9711 of 12 ingredients
New Zealand$72.35$18.0911 of 12 ingredients
Egypt‏٨٩١٫٦٧ ج.م.‏‏٢٢٢٫٩٢ ج.م.‏11 of 12 ingredients
Spain17,82 €4,46 €11 of 12 ingredients
Greece21,67 €5,42 €10 of 12 ingredients
Germany24,17 €*6,04 €8 of 12 ingredients
Austria€ 16,03*€ 4,018 of 12 ingredients
Mexico$608.73*$152.186 of 12 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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