The following recipes are for substantial soups, to which a handful or two of pasta are added for both nourishment and a different texture. A soup that is simplicity itself and needs no recipe is minestrina, which consists of clear stock – chicken, light meat or vegetable – to which some small pasta shapes, or pastina, such as stelline, alfabeto or risone, are added. It is a classic of northern Italian cooking.
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