Italian onion soup and a minestrone

2009-07-22T19:35:00.000-07:00

Two Soups from Italy

The Italian cuisine is working with a lot of fresh products such as vegetables, fruits, herbs, and not to forget the delicious fruits of the sea.

La Cucina Italiana (Italian cuisine) is very regional. The Italian cuisine reflects again the fact that the country only in 1861 was united. Until that time each region brought their own distinctive cuisine, which is composed exclusively of ingredients put together, the locally collected, grown and raised could be.

Nowadays, of course, easy harvesting indigenous to any part of the country, but the Italians still prefer it to their native cuisine to the ingredients, that they quality and freshness more important than choice and innovation.

Minestrone "thick soup"

Minestrone there are infinite variations. Some versions will be with short pasta, cooked rice with others. In some areas of Italy are given fresh herbs, served in the soup lukewarm. The best beans for the fresh minestrone Borlotti beans. In Italy, they are late with the flamed pink, cream-colored pods offered. If you do not get fresh beans, make it soft and dried overnight. Dried cannellini beans lend themselves well. Weighing the dried beans after soaking, so that the weight of some fresh beans specified quantity gourmet chocolates.

Ingredients for Minestrone

125 ml olive oil

20 g butter

3 onions, eingehackt

3 garlic cloves, finely chopped

100 g carrots, diced

2 sticks celery, sliced

100 g cubed bacon, as desired

450 g fresh Borlotti beans

100 g of potatoes, large dice

200 g tomatoes, peeled, stoned and finely chopped

1.5 l vegetable broth

100 g cabbage, finely sliced strips

2 zucchini, diced

250 g green beans, chopped

Sea salt, black pepper

Fresh basil, chopped

freshly grated Parmesan

Preparation:

Oil in a large pot heat, onion, and about 5 minutes, stirring stew until the onions are soft. The sliced tomatoes, zucchini, diced potatoes and stir in the garlic. Stir well and cover 10 minutes without boiling, stirring constantly so that the vegetables were not on the pot bottom sets.

Pour in the broth and bring to the boil, reduce heat, cover half the pot and let cook for 15 minutes until the vegetables is even. If necessary, add more broth.

Remove the pan from the plate take minestrone gradually finished (when recipe without bacon or salt admit), each serving with olive oil and refine Serve garnished with basil. Serve the soup and the freshly grated Parmesan separately to rich gourmet cookies.

Zuppa di Cipolla (Italian onion soup)

Ingredients:

1 kg onions

4 tablespoons olive oil

200 ml dry white wine

1 liter chicken broth

1 tomato

Salt, pepper

2 tablespoons wine vinegar

4 slices white bread

Parmesan (freshly grated)

The water and boil the onions so überbrühen. Let stand 5 minutes and decant. Onions into rings and cut in oil heated steam 10-12 minutes.

Pour wine and bring to the boil. Tomato überbrühen the skin, small cut and admit it. The soup about 20 minutes simmer. The soup with salt, pepper and vinegar gradually.

The bread slices toast, cups of soup in the basket, fill the soup and sprinkle with Parmesan.

Sicilian tomato soup

2009-07-22T19:18:00.000-07:00

An easy and delicious soup - a delicacy

The Sicilian cuisine is one of the oldest and most diverse regional cuisines of Italy, including bruschetta.

The multi-talent from the South "the tomato" Whether red, green, juicy or dehydrated without tomatoes would be the Italian kitchen rather aufgeschmissen. Because what would a pizza without the red Sugo, they are not quite as dry does, and how should thousands of "Bambini" their spaghetti gourmet olives if the tomato sauce was missing.

The Italian word for tomato is "pomodoro", which translated means as much as gold apple. This is because the first varieties in yellow, not red - as now - were. The tomato belongs to the night shade plants, and is closely related to the potato, which originally comes from South America.

However long it is the secret star in many kitchens. No wonder, because only the tomato gives many dishes the famous mark. So the sun tastiest tomatoes, eggplants and peppers are still in the south to find.

Sicilian tomato soup "maneštre siciliana al pomodoro"

Ingredients:

50 g olive oil

1 onion

1 track Garlic

500 g tomatoes

100 g sago (tomato puree)

250 g cooked chicken meat

100 g of ox tongue

150 g short broken spaghetti

1,1 / 2-2 liter broth

Parmesan cheese

Parsley and mint leaves

Salt, pepper

Preparation:

The finely chopped onion with the tomatoes andünsten, parsley and mint leaves, very finely chopped, add to broth aufgießen.

Once everything is cooking, slowly stir in the tapioca, and all 30 minutes can easily simmer. Then the spaghetti admit the sliced chicken strips, in Cube Chen sliced ox tongue with salt and pepper. Parmesan cheese and bread to give.

Tip: Stir sour cream with a little lemon juice, salt and pepper and enter this finely grated Parmesan. With this you can dip the tomato soup further refine.

Bruschetta

The bruschetta is a kind of open sandwich - probably they were originally supplied the idea for the cheese toast. Normally, for a larger slices of sourdough bread is used. Since it also has a thick crust, it remains up to one week shelf life without out. With some luck you get it in an Italian delicatessen store or a good bakery. Otherwise, take one of those good round country loaves, how to find farmers' markets.

The slices, about l cm thick cut should be possible on Gourmet food roasted, but it is also okay for you to use a grill pan.

Even in this basic version, the bruschetta is a real benefit but only if you have olive oil in a class of use.

4 tomatoes scald, skin them, remove the flower approach, cut into cubes and drain. 4 slices rye bread toast. 2 garlic cloves, peel, halve and rub the bread so. With olive oil and diced tomatoes to distribute. Add salt and pepper from the mill season and serve immediately.

The floor can be as modest or luxurious, as you wish. The only rule is that what a bruschetta should be, nice and freshly cooked and was treated with care.