minestrone soup

Ingredients

• - 6 cups of chicken or vegetable broth
• - 2- 14oz. tins of diced tomatoes with juice
• - 3 cups of thinly sliced leeks white part only. ( used chopped yellow onons)
• - 1 19oz can of white kidney beans rinsed and drained
• - 2 cups of shredded cabbage, lightly packed
• - 1 +3/4 cups diced carrots
• - 1+ 3/4 cups diced celery
• - 2 garlic cloves minced (or 1/2 tsp powder)
• - 1 tsp granulated sugar
• - 1/2 tsp dried basil
• - 1/2 tsp salt
• - 1/2 tsp pepper
• - 1 cup diced zucchini (with peel)
• - 1 cup frozen cut green beans
• - grated parmesan cheese for garnish