Ribollita

Butternut Squash, Kale, Leeks, and Canned Tomato

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Barbuto Cookbook: California-Italian Cooking from the Beloved West Village Restaurant

By Jonathan Waxman

Published 2020

  • About

Ribollita is a delightful brothy concoction that the cooks at Barbuto love to play with. It is an adaptable soup that lends itself well to seasonal cooking, the Barbuto way! It is an extremely satisfying first course—a perfect cold-weather dish, and a colorful one to boot. The futsu squash, a recent Japanese import, has become a very popular squash. It is magnificent: fruity, meaty, with a very nutty flesh and a skin that is edible. If you can’t find it, use butternut. This soup contains my