Instant Pot Minestrone Soup is flavorful hearty Italian soup with beans, pasta and veggies. Not only it is delicious and comforting but nutritious.
Instant Pot chicken noodle soup and Instant Pot zuppa toscana are other budget friendly soups I make year round.
Pressure Cooker Minestrone Soup
This Instant Pot minestrone soup is a living proof that soup is not only for fall. And neither is Instant Pot.
We make soups year round. Especially in summer. And especially in Instant Pot – keeps kitchen cool.
It’s how I grew up in Ukraine and it makes total sense to me. I still remember eating a bowl of piping hot grandma’s chicken noodle soup and sweating. It was the best with fresh herbs and homemade noodles. Take me back!
This minestrone soup is hearty, healthy and extremely delicious. It uses farmer’s market produce, cleans out the fridge and feeds kids for days that are home from school.
Ingredients for Instant Pot Minestrone
Minestrone is one of those soups that is super easy to customize. Literally any firm veggies, spices and tomates work.
- Firm veggies: I always use potatoes because they make soup thicker and hearty. Carrots, celery, onion and garlic seem to be a staple in any soup.
- Soft veggies: Zucchini can be added before and after cooking with pasta if you like firm squash. Bell pepper comes out bright red and pretty in minestrone.
- Dried white beans: We cook beans from dried or you can use 2 x 14 oz canned beans. I prefer white or navy or cannellini beans. You could also use black eyed peas.
- Pasta: You can use any short pasta. Of course healthy would be whole grain, brown rice, quinoa, chickpea or any whole food pasta. But white regular pasta works too. If you only have long pasta, break it into small pieces.
- Diced tomatoes: They add chunks of veggies and flavor keeping soup more on a broth side. You can add tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes. I would use one 14 oz can then. Minestrone soup would be more red colour and a bit thicker broth.
- Dried rosemary, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper.
- Fresh parsley and Parmesan for garnish.
Tip: The key with minestrone soup is to have all ingredients same size more or less.
How to Make Instant Pot Minestrone
- Dump all ingredients in 6 or 8 quart Instant Pot except pasta and if using canned beans. Cut ingredients in 1/2 for 3 quart.
- Dried beans – Cook for 30 mins on high: Some models will have Pressure Cook button and others Manual. 3 quart pot needs same cook time. And Instant Pot will take about 30 minutes to come to pressure and only then cook for another 30 mins.
- Canned beans – Cook for 10 mins on high: Reduce broth to 5 cups and add beans at the end with pasta.
- After wait 15 minutes and release pressure: Turn vent to Venting after soup finished cooking. Don’t do it right away because you will have counters splattered in soup.
- Pasta cooks fast: If you add it with all other ingredients in the beginning, pasta will become a mush. Instead after soup is cooked, we add pasta, close the lid and let it sit in a pot turned off (or on Keep Warm) for 10-15 minutes.You don’t need to turn the pressure cooker on on any program.
- Garnish with fresh parsley and serve.
More help: Not familiar with Instant Pot? Check out my Instant Pot guide and which Instant Pot I own and recommend to buy.
How to Serve, Store and Freeze
Serving: Minestrone is truly a one pot meal. A generous amount of fresh Italian parsley, a sprinkle of freshly grated Parmesan and toasted whole grain bread complete the meal nicely.
Storing and reheating: Minestrone will be fine in the fridge for maximum 2 days. Only because pasta soaks up liquid as it sits and becomes a mush. Store in inner pot of Instant Pot with silicone or glass lid and reheat on the stove right in it. Or pour desired amount in a pot. Always reheat only what you are going to eat at a time.
Freezing: You are better off freezing leftovers same day soup is cooked. When freezing and thawing the soup, pasta does get a bit mushy. If you freeze next day minestrone, it will be more mushy because pasta will soak up more broth overnight in the fridge.
Enjoy this Instant Pot minestrone!
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Instant Pot Minestrone
Instant Pot Minestrone Soup is flavorful hearty Italian soup with beans, pasta and veggies. Not only it is delicious and comforting but nutritious.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Soup and Stew
- Method: Instant Pot
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 large carrots, chopped
- 4 cups chopped veggies like potato, zucchini, pepper, celery etc.
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 1/2 cups cannellini, navy or white beans, dried
- 28 oz can diced tomatoes, low sodium
- 1 tbsp rosemary, dried or fresh
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 tsp salt
- Ground black pepper, to taste
- 1/8 tsp red pepper flakes
- 8 cups water+bouillon cube or low sodium stock
- 1 cup uncooked small shape pasta (macaroni, sea shells)
- 1/2 cup Italian parsley, finely chopped
- Parmesan cheese, for serving
Instructions
- In 6 or 8 quart Instant Pot, add onion, carrots, other veggies, garlic, beans, diced tomatoes, rosemary, bay leaves, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and water. Do not stir.
- Close the lid, turn pressure vent to Sealing and press Pressure Cook on High or Manual for 30 minutes. Please see notes for cooking with canned beans.
- After Instant Pot has finished cooking, let pressure come down on its own for 15 minutes (otherwise soup will splatter too much). Then release remaining pressure using Quick Release method by turning valve to Venting and open the lid.
- Add uncooked pasta, stir, cover and let sit for 10 minutes. Pasta will cook.
- Add parsley and stir.
- Serve hot garnished with Parmesan cheese. Enjoy!
Serving: Minestrone is truly a one pot meal. A generous amount of fresh Italian parsley and toasted whole grain bread complete the meal nicely.
Storing and reheating: Minestrone will be fine in the fridge for maximum 2 days. Only because pasta soaks up liquid as it sits and becomes a mush. Store in inner pot of Instant Pot with silicone or glass lid and reheat on the stove right in it. Or pour desired amount in a pot. Always reheat only what you are going to eat at a time.
Freezing: You are better off freezing leftovers same day soup is cooked. When freezing and thawing the soup, pasta does get a bit mushy. If you freeze next day minestrone, it will be more mushy because pasta will soak up more broth overnight in the fridge.
Notes
- 3 quart Instant Pot: Cut ingredients in half and cook for same time.
- Canned beans: Use 2 x 14 oz low sodium canned beans and add them at the end with pasta. Reduce broth to 5 cups and cook soup for 10 minutes.
- Beans: You could also use black eyed peas.
- Zucchini: If you like them firm add at the end with pasta.
- Spaghetti: Use larger pasta broken into pieces.
Did you make this recipe? Please give it a star rating in the comments.
So yummy!! The rosemary flavor combined with fresh parsley flavor is sooo good. The cannellini beans were perfectly done (slightly al dente, but my husband said perfect and not al dente). I used zucchini, potato, carrot, celery as my 4cups of veggies. The pasta was perfect. My 18 month old loved it as well as my husband and my 10 yo. My 7yo and 6yo picky eaters missed out. So good.
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Glad this recipe was enjoyed by most of your family Anna!
All good love theses recipes..I’ll try while indoors 95%of my time
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Hope you enjoy, Freeda.
I made this in a 6 quart pot, and there was no room to add 16 cups of broth or boullion & water. I was only able to add 6 cups.
Nancy, recipe says 8 cups. I make it all the time in my 6 quart. 6 cups liquid will work just as fine, this is minor adjustment. In Ukraine, we even eyballed all ingredients. 🙂 Enjoy!
Made it with kale, potatoes, celery, carrots, great northern beans..***next time fresh rosemary……definately my new go to!! Good stuff!!
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Thanks for sharing your positive feedback Joan!
One of my go to recipes. This was one of this first things I made in my Instant Pot. Loved it then, love it now!
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awe, this makes me so happy Julie!
Delicious!
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Bay leaves are listed in the directions but not the ingredients , 3?
Yes, 3 works.
I made the recipe a few times,it is excellent
★★★★★
A new family favourite! Thankyou for sharing!
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Thank you for wonderful review, Tasha!
New to the instant pot. This was amazing. I couldn’t believe the amount of flavor in the soup. I was worried that due to shorter cooking times, soups wouldn’t be as flavorful. Not true here at all. Thank you!
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I had exactly same fears when I first started using Instant Pot. That’s so great! It sounds like you have a new favorite, Betsy!
Made it with Great Northern Beans and fresh rosemary. Wishing I had made a double batch. So much flavor.
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Yes! I love those beans too! Awesome to hear.
I am hooked on Olena and her instant pot recipes ❤️ And of course all her how to use the instant pot ?
Thank you ?
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Haha, a great addiction to have. Glad you are enjoying. 🙂
Going to try this tonight, and I have a question: Why does the recipe say “do not stir the ingredients” before pressure cooking? I would think the spices, beans, etc. should be well mixed before cooking?
Not with instant pot. Tomatoes might cause burn that’s why no stir. Under pressure flavours get extracted no matter what and then you stir anyways. Read about Burn more here https://ifoodreal.com/why-does-my-instant-pot-say-burn/
Great soup!. Tastes as good as it looks.
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Awesome!!! Happy to hear, Maria.
I love soup, any time of the year and this one is a keeper!!
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Yay! So happy to hear, Jacquie!
Any tips on the ratios for the 6 quart version? I’ve tried this twice now, and I can’t fit all of the ingredients in the pot, and when the cook time is up the beans are nowhere near done. I end up heating it longer, and when it is eventually done, it’s delicious but way past dinner time 🙁
The actual picture is taken of 6 quart Cosori pressure cooker. I’m not sure why it doesn’t fit in yours because it fits in mine no problem… It is only 8 cups of liquid… As for beans, it must be the type of beans. Try a different brand of beans, it does happen. Or set cooking time +10 mins to the one listed in the recipe. It will be fine. Heating after will take forever to cook beans, it’s not efficient.
I managed to get things to work–the main trick was that I had to soak the great northern beans overnight. Such a great recipe!
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Really good! First recipe I tried from this site and def going to find some more to try. Really enjoyed this (and guess what? Kids ate it up too!)
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Yay. So happy to hear. Check out my whole Instant Pot section. Would love to hear what else you try.
I’m sure this will be a 5. I love soup 12 months a year, too! Olena, you’re fabulous!!
Haha thanks. Soup is every poor mans best friend. That’s how it was instilled in me. Can always make it with anything and fill up the belly.
I’m saving the recipe and love the ease of the IP. Are you able to share the nutritional information?
Yes, it’s inside the recipe.