Ribollita with Instant Pot, a typical Tuscan minestrone made with vegetables, beans, and stale bread cooked in the electric pressure cooker. An Italian recipe, like the pappa al pomodoro or the parmigiana cooked in the instant pot. I truly believe this is the best appliance for cooking ribollita, whether you want a quick version of ribollita in a pressure cooker or prefer a ribollita in a slow cooker. There’s also the added benefit of cooking Tuscan ribollita in the multicooker: you can prepare many portions and then store them in jars for preserving the ribollita using jar cooking. This way, you can keep it for 15 days. At the end of the recipe, I’ll explain how, and I’ll also give you the version of the ribollita cooked at low temperature.
If you still have doubts about the usefulness of having an instant pot, I refer you to this instant pot guide and I invite you to purchase my book Multicooker (Gribaudo editor).
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very economical
- Rest time: 15 Minutes
- Preparation time: 30 Minutes
- Portions: 4People
- Cooking methods: Instant pot
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Autumn, Winter
- Energy 649.40 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 94.96 (g) of which sugars 14.05 (g)
- Proteins 21.96 (g)
- Fat 20.45 (g) of which saturated 2.50 (g)of which unsaturated 1.89 (g)
- Fibers 19.80 (g)
- Sodium 1,528.19 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 500 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for making ribollita in the multicooker
- 9 oz black cabbage
- 5 oz savoy cabbage
- 2 cups cooked beans
- 1 yellow onion (small)
- 2 carrots (medium)
- 2 potatoes (medium)
- 4 leaves sage
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 3 pinches salt
- 2 pinches pepper
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- 6 slices rustic bread (stale)
What you need
- 1 multicooker
- 1 Oven lid optional
- 1 Food mill
How to make ribollita in the multicooker
Peel the carrots and potatoes, dice them. Wash the black cabbage and savoy cabbage leaves, remove the central stem of the cabbage and then cut into strips. Peel and chop the onion, distribute it at the bottom of the pot and add the oil. Sauté for a couple of minutes by setting the pot to 392°F. After sautéing the onion, add the rest of the chopped vegetables, sage, tomato paste, salt, and pepper. Pour in the broth, pass half of the beans through the food mill, letting them fall into the pot, along with the remaining beans. Mix everything well.
Close the pot with its lid and set to the pressure function for 30 minutes. At the end of cooking, let the ribollita rest in the closed multicooker for at least 15 minutes. The ribollita can stay in the turned-off pot for up to 24 hours. It will taste much better the next day.
When you want to serve the ribollita, slice the bread. Remove all the ribollita from the pot and place some slices of bread on the bottom. Pour over half of the ribollita and continue with more slices of bread. Top with the remaining ribollita. If you have it, close the pot with the oven lid, otherwise close it with the same lid used for the first cooking. Start the second cooking at 392°F for 8 minutes with the oven lid, otherwise let the soup boil in the instant pot for 12 minutes and with the valve open. In this case, the pot will not start the countdown because the valve is open, and an external timer will be needed. At the end of cooking, remove the lid and serve the ribollita.
Additional tips from Rosella
If you don’t like cannellini beans, you can also use pre-cooked borlotti beans.
Ribollita in slow cooker
Proceed with chopping the vegetables, as per the recipe, then start cooking for 5 hours on slow cooker mode (low). Lastly, finish with the bread and restart for 20 minutes on slow cooker function or for 8 with pressure function.
