Grandma’s Minestrone
Today I present to you a classic dish of Italian cuisine.
Once considered a farmer’s first course. Born as a recycling recipe, gathering all leftover vegetables and legumes, today it has been greatly re-evaluated.
My grandmother collected all the cheese rinds and even if they were very hard, she cut them to use in the minestrone or in pasta and potatoes.
By doing so, she created a complete dish, especially if there were legumes among the leftovers.
Below I will present the recipe first with traditional cooking and then with the Bimby method.
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- Cost: Very cheap
- Rest time: 1 Minute
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Boiling
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 273.65 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 22.90 (g) of which sugars 6.85 (g)
- Proteins 12.40 (g)
- Fat 15.60 (g) of which saturated 5.32 (g)of which unsaturated 2.02 (g)
- Fibers 5.12 (g)
- Sodium 532.19 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 400 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
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- 1.5 oz onions
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 21 oz frozen minestrone (and then thawed)
- 4 cups water
- 2 broth cubes (vegetable)
- 1 tsp salt (level)
- 7 oz pasta (Ditalini rigati)
- 2.8 oz Grana Padano DOP (cubed)
Grandma’s Minestrone
Tools
What we need to make the
- 1 Pot
- 1 Knife
- 1 Cutting board
Preparation
Traditional cooking
Take the minestrone out of the freezer and immerse it in lukewarm water until thawed. Then drain it
Finely chop the onion and sauté it in a pot with the olive oil for about 2 minutes.
Add the minestrone, water, broth cube, and a pinch of salt.
Bring to a boil for about 10 minutes.
After the time has passed, add the pasta and cook for the time indicated on the package minus one minute.
Meanwhile, cut the Grana Padano into cubes, if you have the harder part, it’s better.
In the last minute, turn off the heat and add the cheese cubes, stir, optionally add some raw oil and let it rest.
Serve hot.
Here is my traditional cooking minestrone Sardinian dumplings and Grana.
Take the minestrone out of the freezer and immerse it in lukewarm water until thawed. Then drain it.
Put the onions into the bowl, chop: 5 sec./speed 7. Gather at the bottom with a spatula.
Add the extra-virgin olive oil and sauté: 3 min./250°F/speed 1.
Add the minestrone.
Pour in the water and broth cubes, cook: 15 min./212°F/speed 1.
Add salt, pasta and cook: the time indicated on the package minus 1 minute./212°F/speed 1
While the pasta cooks, cut the Grana Padano into cubes, if you have the harder part, it’s better.
Open the bowl and add the Grana Padano cubes. 1 min. at speed 1
Serve, here is my Minestrone with Sardinian dumplings and Grana with Bimby preparation.
Storage
Minestrone Sardinian dumplings and Grana. It can be stored in the fridge for 2 days.
Minestrone Sardinian dumplings and Grana
Can I skip the Grana?
Yes, certainly
