How ribollita is made with black cabbage and dried cannellini beans, an original Florentine recipe typical of most of Tuscany, a complete spelled-based dish with sliced homemade bread.
Ingredients for 4 people
- 100 gr dried cannellini beans
- 100 gr of spelled
- 500 gr of black cabbage
- 1 stalk of celery
- 1 leek
- 1 sprig of rosemary
- 1 clove of garlic
- 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 spicy red chilli pepper
- 1 dl tomato puree
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- 1 large onion
- 200 gr sliced homemade bread
- salt
How to cook the ribollita original recipe
Start by soaking the beans and spelled in cold water separately, letting them soften for about 12 hours.
Wash the cabbage, detach the stems and cut the leaves into small pieces, remove the filaments from the ribs with the help of a potato peeler, then clean the celery and the leek, cleaning the latter of the green part, after slicing everything very thin.
Finely chop the rosemary needles together with the garlic clove.
In a baking dish, heat a tablespoon of oil and cook the minced garlic and rosemary together with the chilli pepper, keeping the heat high for a few seconds, then add the cabbage, leek and celery, cook for two minutes, stirring salt and remove the chilli pepper.
Pour a liter of boiling water, rinsed and drained beans and spelled, then add the tomato puree and simmer in a covered container for about 50 minutes.
Cover the soup with the finely sliced onion, pour the remaining oil and simmer in the preheated oven at 180 ° C for about twenty minutes, waiting for it to become golden, finally serve the ribollita still hot and together with the slices of toasted bread.
