Minestrone d’Estate

This is an amalgam of summer vegetables cooked in vegetable stock with olive oil. The important ingredient is fresh borlotti beans (these are available from June onwards). The other distinguishing factor is that it includes lots of fresh tomato. I think it is delicious at room temperature.

This soup depends on two things for its effect. Firstly, the quality of the vegetables; be careful in selection, and be very careful to get the dicing right. If they are left too large it will mak