Seafood Made Simple: This mussel minestrone is a good way to clean out your vegetable drawer

"A soup like minestrone is not just an accompaniment to a sandwich, it has the all the flavour and nourishment of an evening meal."

Aishling Moore's mussel minestrone. Picture: Chani Anderson

Sat, 28 Sep, 2024 - 02:00

Aishling Moore

Aishling Moore is head chef and co-owner of Goldie, the award-winning seafood restaurant in Cork city. A pioneer of gill-to-fin cooking in Ireland, and author of cookbook The Whole Catch, she's won multiple awards for her cooking and writing.

Minestrone, Italy’s national soup is one of my most favourites for cleaning out the vegetable drawer in the fridge.

Odds and ends of left over root vegetables, the dregs of the bottom of the pasta packets, a tin of beans from the back of the press and you have the makings of a serious pot of food.