Name: Minestra di Erbe Passate (A Green Vegetable Purée)
Ingredients: a small crisp cabbage; 2 or 3 little lettuces; a small head of sedano (green celery) or celery tops; a few fronds of dill; a small carrot; some basil or (failing dill and basil) some sorrel; 2 large handfuls of fresh spinach; a bunch of spinach beet; 3 tomatoes, roughly chopped; a large knob of butter; salt and pepper; 1 potato, peeled and diced

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Honey from a Weed

By Patience Gray

Published 1986

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Ingredients

2 or 3 little lettuces
a small crisp cabbage
a bunch of

Method

Remove the biggest ribs from the beet, wash and roughly slice up all the greenstuff on a board, put it in a large bowl with water. Chop up the aromatics and simmer them in butter till they begin to colour. Put in the undrained greenstuff, with the tomatoes and potato, add salt and pepper and boil up, stirring. When the greens have reduced in volume, cover with hot water and cook briefly till te