Spring and Summer Minestrone

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

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.

Ingredients

Americas
United States
Chicago
New York
Soup
Summer

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