Tender cannellini beans, just-wilted fresh arugula leaves, in addition to practiced white in addition to blood-red wines add together flavor, coloring in addition to depth to this Italian-style baked onion soup topped amongst crusty breadstuff in addition to freshly grated Parmesan cheese. Not alone delicious in addition to a overnice impression on your guests, this "minestra di cipolle e fagioli inwards crosta" is too real slowly to make. It's too my entry for this month's onion-family themed
No Croutons Required hosted yesteryear my wonderful friend
Jacqueline.
If yous choose a rind left over from grating the Parmesan cheese, add together it during the simmering phase of the soup. This or the rind of whatever other difficult aged cheese lends a wonderful depth in addition to base of operations to the stock of whatever savory edible bean or vegetable soup, in addition to they tin flame last refrigerated or frozen for after use.
This recipe is loosely adapted from Marlena de Blasi's
A Taste of Southern Italy
— a unique in addition to attractive collection of authentic dishes that are unfortunately almost uniformly non-vegetarian. But there's zero incorrect amongst a vegetarian using a piddling imagination to transform a salt-pork soup similar de Blasi's master into a meatless delight.
 Italian Onion in addition to Bean Soup amongst Parmesan Toast
(Minestra di Cipolle e Fagioli inwards Crosta) |
Recipe yesteryear Lisa Turner
Adapted from A Taste of Southern Italy: Delicious Recipes in addition to a Dash of Culture
Cuisine: Italian
Published on April 19, 2010
Attractive in addition to elegant soup of tender cannellini beans, caramelized sweetness onions in addition to just-wilted arugula leaves simmered amongst vino in addition to served amongst broiled crusty breadstuff in addition to fresh grated Parmesan cheese
Beans (Fagioli):
- 1/2 loving cup dried cannellini (white kidney) beans
- 4 cups vegetable stock
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 dried whole blood-red chili
Soup (Minestra):
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 lb (450 g) Vidalia or sweetness onions, thinly sliced
- 6 cloves garlic, slightly crushed
- 1/2 tablespoon body of body of water salt
- 3/4 teaspoon dark-brown sugar
- 1 loving cup dry out white wine
- 1/2 loving cup blood-red wine
- 1 loving cup fresh arugula leaves, torn or shredded
Toast (Crosta):
- 4 1/2-inch slices of crusty bread
- 1 loving cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
- olive crude oil for drizzling
- fresh soil dark pepper
Instructions:
Rinse the beans in addition to soak for 8 hours or overnight covered inwards several inches of mutual frigidity H2O amongst a piddling yogurt whey or lemon juice added. Drain in addition to rinse the beans, in addition to transfer to a medium saucepan. Cover amongst the vegetable stock, bay foliage in addition to dried blood-red chili. Bring to a boil, hence straightaway trim down the estrus to low, cover, in addition to allow simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until the beans are soft. Discard the chili. Drain, reserving the cooking liquid in addition to bay leaf, in addition to educate aside. Heat the olive crude oil over medium estrus inwards a large cast-iron skillet or stove-top security casserole. When hot, add together the onions in addition to garlic in addition to toss until the onions are translucent, most v minutes. Turn downwards the estrus a piddling in addition to sprinkle on the body of body of water tabular array salt in addition to dark-brown sugar. Cook, stirring frequently, until the onions are golden-brown in addition to slightly caramelized, most thirty minutes. Pour inwards the white vino in addition to ii 1/2 cups of the reserved cooking liquid from the beans. Add the bay leaf, in addition to choose to a simmer. If yous choose a Parmesan rind, add together this to the soup every bit well. Cook for twenty minutes. Now add together the beans in addition to blood-red wine, in addition to simmer gently for v to a greater extent than minutes. Remove from estrus in addition to discard the bay foliage in addition to Parmesan rind if using. Pre-heat the oven broiler. Toss the arugula leaves into the soup. Lay slices of breadstuff over the soup, sprinkle the breadstuff amongst Parmesan cheese, in addition to drizzle olive crude oil over the breadstuff in addition to cheese. Generously dust the breadstuff in addition to soup amongst enough of fresh soil dark pepper. Place the skillet or casserole nether the broiler to toast the breadstuff in addition to melt the cheese. Carry hot to the tabular array in addition to ladle soup in addition to breadstuff into warm bowls.
Makes 2 to iv servings |
Other Italian-style soups yous may enjoy:
Tuscan-Style Pinto Bean Soup amongst Kale Cannellini Bean Soup amongst Fontina Gremolata Tuscan Bean Soup amongst Fresh Rosemary White Cabbage in addition to Bean Minestrone Sumber http://foodandspice.blogspot.com/
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