Pancotto con Rucola e Patate

Name: Pancotto con Rucola e Patate
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 450 g (1 lb) rocket (or trimmed spinach); 450 g (1 lb) potatoes, peeled and thickly sliced; salt; 2 cloves garlic, sliced into thin strips; 1 dried red chilli; 100 ml (3½ fl oz) olive oil; 8 slices stale white bread

Rocket and Potato Soup

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from an Italian Farmhouse

By Valentina Harris

Published 1995

About

This recipe from Apulia dates back to the Daunian civilisation 2,500 years ago. It’s one of the simplest soups, but bursting with flavour and with a lovely texture – and the rocket is said to purify the blood.

Ingredients

450 g (1 lb) potatoes, peeled and thickly sliced
450 g (1

Europe
Italy
Spicy
Soup
Vegan
Mediterranean

Method

Cover the potatoes with about 1.5 litres 2½ pints) cold water. Bring to the boil and cook for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, wash and trim the rocket.

Add the rocket to the potatoes (coarsely chopped if yo

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