Pistou Soup

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My FAVORITE recipe out of "Great Easy Meals" so far! This soup looks SO fancy when its finished.
If someone had introduced fresh green beans to me as child (instead of that canned mess I would have eaten them a lot more.

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This soup goes together quickly. It tastes similar to minestrone, but richer and more flavorful.

While it's very good as is, after tasting it, I made some modifications. I added the whole small can of tomato paste, plus more garlic. The amount of vegetables called for seemed a bit scant, so I put about 50% more of each. I also put slightly more than 1/2 C. of pesto into the soup.

I purchased a little over 1 1/2 C. of freshly-made pesto and was glad I did. We put generous amounts of it onto the soup, as well as lots of cheese.

Ciabatta bread nicely soaked up what juice we couldn't get to with a spoon.

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The soup came out a little bland at first. I added some italian seasoning, extra garlic, and made my own homemade pesto. I stirred in some pesto at the end and then before serving i dolloped some more on top of each bowl. I also added 2 extra tablespoons of tomato paste at the end and stirred it in so it would have some extra tomato flavor. I also grated in some fresh pecorino romano cheese b/c I had some one hand. And, I grated some more in each bowl when serving. Delicious! My husband even loved it!