Vegetable Soup

Minestrone di verdure

Ingredients

• 500 gr. tomatoes for sauce
• 500 gr. fresh peas
• 200 gr. rice
• 150 gr. dried beans (borlotti) soaked
• 100 gr. bacon
• 50 gr. lard
• 3 floury potatoes
• 2 zucchini
• 2 stalks celery
• 2 carrots
• a small onion
• parsley
• basil
• sage
• garlic
• parmesan
• salt

Time: 3 h 30 min
Servings: 6 persone

Preparation

For the recipe of vegetable minestrone, wash and clean celery, carrots, zucchini and reduce them into cubes. Free the tomatoes from peel and seeds and cut into small pieces too. Peel the potatoes, wash them but leave them whole.

Peel and wash the parsley, chop it finely with lard and a clove of garlic; put the mixture in a pot, add the chopped onion, 2 sage leaves and the pancetta into strips.

Let it fry and when the onion is dried, add all the vegetables, the popped beans, washed and cut into small pieces, the beans soaked for at least 8 hours and 8 basil leaves. Sprinkle with 3 liters of water, salt a little, then let it boil and cook in a covered pot for about 3 hours.

Half an hour before the end of cooking, add the peas and crush the potatoes; a quarter of an hour later add the rice. Serve the minestrone with parmesan.