Mom'S Eat Your Veggies Minestrone Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. dry baby lima beans
1/4 lb. ground beef, cooked
1 medium chopped onion
1 clove fresh minced garlic
6 c. boiling water
2 cubes beef bouillon
2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 large carrot, diced
2 c. turnips, cut in 1/2-inch
2 stalks celery, sliced
1 (19 oz.) can tomatoes
small piece of bay leaf
1/4 tsp. dried leaf basil
2 c. finely shredded cabbage
1 c. torn up spinach, packed

Preparation

Cook ground beef; add onion and cook for approximately 3 minutes, stirring.
Add water, bouillon cubes, salt, pepper and lima beans.
Bring to a boil.
Cover and simmer for about 1 hour (until lima beans are tender).
Then add carrots, turnips, celery, tomatoes, bay leaf and basil.
Simmer until veggies are tender (about 30 minutes).
Add cabbage and cook 5 minutes.
Add spinach and cook 5 more minutes.
Taste; season to taste, if needed. Serve hot.
Great anytime!!