This recipe for vegetarian and vegan minestrone soup is filled with healthy and low-fat vegetables, including tomato, carrots, celery, green beans, and zucchini. It's basically your entire garden in a soup Everything is slowly simmered for maximum flavor along with some fresh basil and garlic. Vegetarian minestrone soup makes for a light and healthy lunch or dinner soup, just add a side salad and maybe a slice of garlic bread and you've got yourself a full meal. Because it contains no oil, this vegetarian minestrone soup recipe is very low in fat. With less than 100 calories per serving and just over 1 gram of naturally occurring fat, this vegetarian (and vegan) minestrone is a great low-calorie and nearly fat-free soup. You may also want to try this crockpot vegetarian vegetable minestrone soup recipe.