Name: Spring and Summer Minestrone
Yield: Serves 4 Prisoners
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 2 big handfuls of seasonal leaves, such as chard or cabbage, shredded; ½ a head of chicory or radicchio, shredded; 1 large red onion, finely chopped; 200g/7oz small carrots, finely sliced; 3 rashers of smoked streaky bacon, finely chopped; 3 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely sliced; 200g/7oz baby courgettes, finely sliced; A bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped, stalks and all; 1 large tomato, roughly chopped; A few torn courgette flowers, if you can get them; 2 big handfuls of soft round lettuce leaves; 150g/5oz baby farfalle pasta; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 big handfuls of frozen peas; 2 litres/3½ pints organic vegetable stock; extra virgin olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
4
Prisoners

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Around the World in 80 Dishes

By David Loftus

Published 2012

About

Nowadays, Chicago has the third largest Italian-American population in the United States, but when Fogg passed through there were apparently only forty-three Italian residents from Sicily and Italy’s southern states. Jamie Oliver, an Englishman with an Italian ‘Godfather’, has made me this soup many a time, most memorably while visiting an island women’s prison.