Minestrone

Minestrone ( Italian, as " thick soup " augmentative of manestra, "soup" ) is a nutritious vegetable soup from Italy.

In the classic Northern Italian variant, it consists of various vegetables such as celery, carrots, leeks, peas, tomatoes and potatoes, always cabbage and beans ( borlotti ). Your strong aroma They are obtained by mitgekochten, air-dried bacon ( pancetta ), onions, garlic and the final addition of parmesan. Meat broth is not used. To saturate contains Minestrone additionally depending on the region in rice ( Lombardy ) or noodles (Liguria and Tuscany ), sometimes toasted white bread. In Genoa, it is prepared without bacon, but with eggplant, mushrooms and pesto. Further south, in the Abruzzo region, however, contains Minestrone next to bacon and pig's head and turnips, cabbage and lentils instead of cabbage and beans.