Ribollita

There are some days that you wake up feeling like a little warm feeling will full and start up your day, but it is when you get to you hearty lunch that you feel your days is now starting to feel as if you are back home with that love one (Grams or Mom) who use to take care of you when you were feeling down..... Here I would like to share my version of this hearty soup really easy and simple but will look like you cook it all day long.

                  

Ribollita

Ingredients

1 tbs extra virgin olive oil
1 small Red onion, thinly sliced
1 carrot cut diagonally into 1/4-inch dice
1 celery stalk diagonally  into 1/4-inch dice
1 whole garlic clove mashed or small diced
3 leaf roughly chopped cavolo nero (black cabbage) (I used Rainbow and red chard)
1/2 pound roughly chopped white cabbage
1 tomato or tomato paste 2 tbsp
1/4 Broccoli
1 small Zuchinni
1 cup Cannellini beans
2-3 cups vegetable broth (or more, if necessary)
Salt and pepper
Basil
Freshly grated Parmesan from a good quality piece

Instructions
In a pot, heat the olive oil and add the onion,  sliced garlic and let it cook a few minutes, Sprinkle gently with salt, stir and cook until the vegetables are soft.
Add white cabbage and cook until they’ve softened and the flavors have blended, about 10 minutes. Add the tomato and stir until it’s well mixed throughout the vegetable mixture. Mix in carrots and the stall of the Broccoli if you are using it let it boil for a couple of minutes, add the rest of the vegetables. put the basil on it. Taste and adjust for salt and pepper,
Add the beans and enough water to make it look soupy (about 3 cups).  Stir all around and simmer for 20 minutes until the soup thickens slightly and tastes like all the flavors have blended.
Ladle the soup into bowls and serve it over old bread slices toasted, and the Parmesan shard it on top.

Zulyt note:
If you can’t find black cabbage, you could try using just plain, ordinary kale or chard as I did on my soup today or leeks ( there is not food police that will take you to jail if you change something you don't have or like for something else.... Slightly alike)
This soup is serve in layers .... 1 layer of old bread .....1 layer of soup with vegetables ....1 layer of old bread ......another of soup and finally parmesan shards! I don't eat bread so I omitted and it was amazing!!!

Enjoy!!!
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