Michela Chiappa served up a tasty homemade minestrone soup with roasted vegetables and basil pesto on This Morning.

The ingredients are: 1 onion, 1 beef tomato , 2 celery sticks , 2 carrots , 1 courgette , 1 sweet potato, Small butternut squash , Glug of olive oil , Salt and freshly ground pepper , 1 organic chicken or vegetable stock cube, Handful pastina pasta – small star shaped pasta,or broken spaghetti and freshly grated parmesan cheese and griddled bread, to serve.

See recipes by Michela in her book titled: Simply Italian: Cooking at Home with the Chiappa Sisters available from Amazon now.