Cannellini Bean Soup: peasant recipe with cabbage


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How to make cannellini bean soup, also called peasant soup, necessary ingredients and preparation methods with stale bread and chard, cooking time.


Ingredients for 6 people

- 6 slices of stale homemade bread

- Dried cannellini beans 300 g


- 1 bunch of black cabbage

- 1 quarter of savoy cabbage

- 2 bunches of chard


- 2 potatoes

- 2 carrots

- 2 celery stalks


- Smells, onion, carrot, celery

- A spoonful of preserves

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- Olive oil

- Salt and pepper

How to prepare the bean soup

Boil the beans, after soaking them overnight, in about 2 liters of cold salted water.

Pass the three quarters and put the puree obtained in the cooking broth.

In a saucepan, brown in 8 tablespoons of oil, the minced smells and when the onion wilt, add all the clean, washed and cut into slices.

Stew a few minutes then add the concentrate diluted with broth.

Add a little salt, pepper and add the bean broth and the whole beans.


Cook for about an hour in an uncovered pan.

In a bowl, put the slices of bread, wanting toasted and lightly rubbed garlic, and pour the soup over it.

Wait about ten minutes before serving.

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