Description

Provencal soup
Pistou is a very rich, thick, very aromatic and incredibly tasty soup. Recipe from Alexei Zimin.

Ingredients

  • Onion

    2 piece

  • Garlic

    6 tooth

  • Bay leaf

    2 piece

  • Potatoes

    2 piece

  • Olive oil

    100 ml

  • Basil

    100 g

  • Parmesan

    100 g

  • The Apium graveolens Dulce

    3 piece

  • Carrots

    3 piece

  • Vermicelli

    100 g

  • Tomatoes in own juice

    400 g

  • Beans

    400 g

  • Green beans

    100 g

  • Broth

    2 l

  • Salt

  • Black pepper

Cooking

step-0
To prepare all the products. Instead of tomatoes in own juice, I had a package of pureed tomatoes Picante. Fresh green bean, unfortunately, we do not bring, say not in demand, so frozen. Unfortunately, I also found petiolate celery, replaced by root.
step-1
Wash vegetables and clean. Carrots and celery and chop sticks. Cut the potatoes into small cubes. Onions to chop.
step-2
Fry the lightly crushed garlic cloves in olive oil.
step-3
Send to garlic, carrot and celery, sauté for two minutes.
step-4
Then add the onion and potatoes and cook for another three minutes.
step-5
Toss in a Bay leaf.
step-6
Pour the broth, bring to a boil and cook over low heat for five minutes.
step-7
Add green beans and noodles. If you do not like thick soups, vermicelli can be put less, for example 80 g.
step-8
After three minutes add the tomatoes and white beans, season with salt and pepper to taste, cook for another 2-3 minutes. Tomatoes it is better to use a peeled, seedless.
step-9
Meanwhile, the cheese and Basil to punch in a blender to a paste
step-10
And stir into the soup. Stir soup until complete dissolution of cheese. To taste it needs more salt and pepper. Ready soup, allow to stand, covered for 15 minutes.
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