Ribollita - Tuscan Italian minestrone (V & Ve)
Ribollita - Tuscan Italian minestrone (V & Ve)

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Riboliita is a hearty soup originating in Tuscany. What set this soup apart from other Minestra recipes is the use of stale bread to make the soup more substantial (and to economize, of course). This delicious soup is best made a day before serving because it is even better on the second day.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have ribollita - tuscan italian minestrone (v & ve) using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Ribollita - Tuscan Italian minestrone (V & Ve):
  1. Take cannellini beans or borlotti beans (if dried plan 12 hours ahead if canned it's faster)
  2. Prepare stale bread or toasted bread like sourdough
  3. Take cavolo nero
  4. Prepare chard (I could only find rainbow chard)
  5. Take savoy cabbage (I couldn't find it)
  6. Get potatoes
  7. Get big white onion
  8. Take gloves garlic
  9. Get carrots diced
  10. Take celery
  11. Take Parmesan rind (skip for VE option)
  12. Take passata
  13. Prepare big courgette or 2 small
  14. Prepare rosmary
  15. Get bay leaves
  16. Prepare thyme
  17. Take vegetable broth
  18. Prepare extra virgin olive oil
  19. Get salt & pepper
  20. Prepare Grated parmesan to serve

Every Tuscan family has a recipe for this soup that has been refined and passed down through generations. The name means reboiled, referring to the fact that it is commonly consumed on the day after its preparation, when it is reheated with a dash of olive oil. The key ingredients in ribollita are. Like most cucina povera, this ribollita - or Tuscan bread soup, as it's often called - is made with whatever is Or what the garden yields.

Steps to make Ribollita - Tuscan Italian minestrone (V & Ve):
  1. If you have dried beans then start by putting them in lots of water for 12 hours before cooking, I leave mine overnight. They should double in size and get softer by the morning.
  2. Cook the beans by adding them in a pot with LOTS of cold water, rosemary and bay leaves until it just starts to boil. Now bring the heat down to the very minimum on the smallest fire you have and leave to cook for 2 hours without mixing the beans so that they don't fall apart. Check to ensure that there is still water. (I would suggest putting the rosemary in a un-dyed cloth if you don't want to spend ages fishing out the needles from the beans like I had to do)
  3. Whilst this is cooking you can start by chopping everything up like shown in the picture below. For the Parmesan rind if using, scrape the part with the numbers a bit and chop it into thing pieces
  4. When the beans are ready fish them out and keep the water that you cooked them in. You can use that with some stock to make your vegetable broth.
  5. Now put some butter and oil (oil only for vegan option) into a large pot, if cast iron or clay even better. Add the onion, celery and carrots until soft, add the potatoes and the parmesan grind if using and cook for a couple of minutes. Now add the passata and cook for a few minutes.
  6. Add the cavolo nero, chard and cabbage and use some of the broth to cover most of the vegetables. The leaves don't need to be submerged at this point. as they will quickly diminish in size when cooked. Cover with a lid and cook for 2 hours checking every 30 min or so to ensure that the broth is not boiling down. If it looks too watery remove the lid to let it dry out.
  7. In the meantime take more than half of the beans and mix with with a mixer until they become a thick puree. You will add this to the soup later on.
  8. At the end of the 2 hours add the mixed beans and cook for another 30 minutes.
  9. Final stage, add the courgettes and the whole cannellini beans and cook for a final 30 minutes.
  10. To serve, toast the bread slices and put it at the bottom of a dish. Add the ribollita, sprinkle with extra virgin olive oil and a sprinkle of parmesan.

That said, ribollita being a traditional northern Italian country dish that However, given that minestrone was originally a thin broth of leftovers, eaten by servants. Italian Bread & Tomato Soup (Ribollita). Literally translated as reboiled, ribollita is a Tuscan soup that can be made with whatever vegetables you have on hand. To keep it tasting like a ribollita, it's best if you start with a base of onions, carrots, and celery and include some form of tomatoes (sauce. Ribollita is an Italian vegetable stew traditionally thickened by bread as a way to use up old crusts going stale.

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