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In breve

The dish in short

  • Dried cannellini beans, soaked and cooked, their cooking liquid part of the soup.
  • Cavolo nero with Savoy cabbage, chard, potatoes and other vegetables, and stale bread.
  • Re-boiled, as its name says: not served on the first day.
  • Finished with extra virgin olive oil, without grated cheese.

Il video, Firenze, Toscana

Ribollita

The video: Tuscan bread, bean and cabbage soup

A thick Tuscan winter soup of cannellini beans, cavolo nero, Savoy cabbage and stale bread, made the day before and ‘re-boiled’, whose recipe the Accademia's Florence delegation filed by notarial deed in 2001. The video is an illustration; the recipe has the exact quantities, temperatures and times.

Serves
6
Hands-on
47 min
Cooking
3 h 25 min
Video
11 s

Passo dopo passo

The steps, in photos

The video shows the main moments; these are all 12 steps, as in the recipe.

Photos of steps 1, 2, 3
1Soak the cannellini2Cook the beans3Prepare the vegetables
Photos of steps 4, 5, 6
4Soften the onions, carrots and celery5Add the tomatoes and the vegetables6Purée a generous half of the beans
Photos of steps 7, 8, 9
7Cook very slowly for an hour8Add the whole beans9Layer with the bread in shallow tins
Photos of steps 10, 11, 12
10Cool quickly and leave overnight11Bring it back to the boil12Serve with raw olive oil

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