SOUP PISANA Here is the recipe Pisa par excellence soup. Distant relative of ribollita, differs from it because the bread is not "scrambled" but remains in slices.
My "teacher" was Monica, our nanny for 8 years, Pisan DOC in all its culinary arts, who taught me this and many other recipes of our cuisine. It is obvious that the soup can not be done for two people to be made when we are many (at a party, a buffet dinner, a trip, etc.). Remembering that it is also good cold, but that, in the hot season, tends to sour very quickly.
Ingredients (x 8 people)
1 onion 1 leek
1 / 4 Cabbage
4-5 leaves of kale
3 carrots 3 potatoes
3 zucchini
thyme salt and pepper
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
250 grams of dried cannellini beans (or 2 cans of beans in a jar)
400 g stale bread
the Coop (from us in Tuscany, of course) is, on the shelves of bags of prepared salad, even the envelope of "Tuscan Soup" a bag of mixed fresh vegetables ready , clean and cut. Nothing to say, I often use, but must be integrated with the potatoes and beans. Let's do this: I write at the end of the model with the envelope of Coop ....
Soak the beans the night before and then cook in salted cold water not .
So: the rule is from the hardest things. However, remember that not is a dish like a soup diet, it takes necessarily the sauce.
Fry in oil the onion and leek, sliced, for about 10 minutes on low heat.
Then add the kale and cabbage, also cut into thin strips for about 10 minutes.
Join then the carrots and cook for themselves for at least 10 minutes. Finally add the diced potatoes and courgettes.
Season with salt, pepper and a sprinkling of thyme.
Suddividre beans in two parts: combine the first half, drained from the cooking liquid to the mixture of vegetables.
Mash the remaining beans with the cooking liquid by using an immersion blender. Combine beans, broth and cook the soup for an hour.
During cooking the soup will be soupy and then add the vegetable broth if necessary.
Slice the bread and distribute the soup in layers alternating slices of bread to scoop the vegetables.
the end will still be fairly liquid, so that the bread may get wet after about an hour and will have the right consistency.
The soup is served with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and red onion, thinly sliced, warm or cold.
VERSION WITH THE ENVELOPE READY (GIA 'cutting) "Tuscan Soup" THE COOP Ingredients (x 8 people) 1 bag of "Tuscan Soup" Coop 1 onion 4-5 leaves of kale 3 potatoes thyme salt and pepper 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 250 g cannellini beans dried (or 2 cans of beans in a jar) 400 grams of stale bread
Soak the night before and then cook the beans in cold water is not salty.
Since, as mentioned above, the rule is from the hardest things, in this case everything is already mixed, but it's not a big deal. It is still part of the mixture, by frying a chopped onion in olive oil for about 10 minutes on low heat. (Leek and cabbage are already in the bag). At this point, add the entire bag and winter cabbage, cut into strips and cook for about 15 minutes. Finally add the potatoes into chunks. Season with salt, pepper and a sprinkling of thyme. Then proceed as above by combining the beans.