How to cook Minestrone Soup

Recipe for Minestrone Soup. Minestrone Soup with pasta, sliced chicken and vegetables recipe.

Ingredients for Minestrone Soup:

• 6 medium size potatoes, 300g
• 1 can stewed tomatoes, 300g
• 100-200g short macaroni
• 75g  boneless chicken thigh, sliced
• 2-3 tbsp butter
• 3 small zucchini, 
• 2 stalks celery
• 4 tbsp grated parmesan 
• 1 onion, chooped
• 1 large sweet pepper, cut into pieces
• Basil, parsley
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 chicken or vegetable stock cube
• Salt, black pepper to taste
• About 1 1/2 litres water

Method:

1. Cook chopped onion, crushed garlic, chicken, basil and parsley in butter until tender.
2. Add the tomatoes and other ingredients, cut into small pieces, except the macaroni and the sweet pepper.
3. Cook, covered, until almost done, then add the macaroni and the sweet pepper.

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How to make Barbeque sauce

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This Barbeque Sauce is suitable for burger, fried meat balls, soft bean curd, macaroni pie, tomato salad and mixed vegetable salad.

Recipe for Barbeque Sauce.

Ingreduents for Barbeque Sauce:

• 1 dsp vinegar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp sugar
• 2 tbsp tomato sauce
• 1 tbsp chilli sauce
• 1 tsp mustard powder (serbuk biji sawi)
• 1/2 tsp thick soya sauce
• 1 tsp margarine
• 1/2 onion
• 140 ml water
• 2 1/2 cm. cinnamon (kayu manis)
• 1/4 star anise (bunga lawang)
• 10 white peppercorns (lada putih)

Method:

1. Chop onion finely.
2. Boil onion in water together with cinnamon, star anise and peppercorns until onion becomes soft and left with 1/2 amount of water.
3. Remove peppercorns, star anise and cinnamon.
4. Add in vinegar, salt, sugar, tomato sauce, chilli sauce, thick soya sauce and margarine. Mix evenly.
5. Simmer for three mins. Taste.
6. Add in mustard powder and mix well.

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