Low | About 8 hours | 4 serves |
60 minutes |
60' in the pot |
Spelt and Borlotti Soup
Ingredients:
- 200 g Monte Castello Borlotti Beans;
- 250 g Monte Castello Pearl Spelt;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 stalk of celery;
- 1 red onion;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- Extra virgin olive oil;
- Sage;
- 1 liter of water;
- Salt to taste
Preparation
Finely chop carrot, celery and onion and brown together with the garlic cloves in a little oil. Drain the Monte Castello Borlotti Beans soaked for 8 hours and add them together with sage and salt to taste. Then add 1 liter of water and bring to a boil, close the pressure cooker, and at the whistle turn the heat down to low for about 20 minutes. Open the pot after letting out the steam, check the degree of cooking and then set aside a third of the Borlotti beans and blend the rest leaving the water that will serve as broth for cooking the spelled. Wash the Monte Castello Pearl Spelt, dry it and toast it for 3 minutes with garlic and oil, then add 3 ladles of the cooking water left aside and continue to cook adding a ladle of broth at a time until desired, for at least 20 minutes. Add the Borlotti puree and mix with a little broth if too thick. Put the whole beans kept aside, drizzle with raw oil and serve.
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