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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Soup of Spelt and Chickling

Soup of Spelt and Chickling
This is the Italian recipe of a delicious soup prepared with spelt and chickling. These 2 legumes are tipycal ingredient of Italian recipes coming from the center of Italy in particular from Umbria and Marche. The preparation of this recipe looks long but it's not, you just need to decide a day before if you want to taste this delicious soup so you can place the legumes covered with water in a bowl overnight and the following day, with the help of pressure cooker you will need only 40 minutes for its preparation.


INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):
200 g or 1 cup of Spelt
200 g or 1 cup of Chickling
3-4 tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil
1 / 2 Onion
Small cubes of bread
Salt coarse
Pepper
Rosemary

PREPARATION TIME: the night before

COOKING TIME: 30 - 40 minutes

WINE: Montefalco di Sagrantino Passito Docg (Red Wine)

PREPARATION
The evening before the day you decide to prepare this delicious soup place the spelt and the chickling covered with water in a bowl. Preheat the extra virgin olive oil in the pressure cooker, chop the onion and add it to the hot oil together with the rosemary, let them cook for a few minutes.

Soup of Spelt and Chickling

Then wash with fresh water the spelt and the chickling and add them to the casserole. Let them cook for a few minutes, add the white wine, let it evaporate

Soup of Spelt and Chickling

and cover with water, add coarse salt, close the lid of the pressure cooker and cook for about 25-30 minutes since the pressure cooker starts to whistle.

Soup of Spelt and Chickling

In the mean time you can cut the bread in small cubes and let them become crunchy in the oven for a few minutes.

Soup of Spelt and Chickling

At the end of the cooking, open the pressure cooker and check the cooking, if there is still too much water, cook the soup for a little bit of time until the water it will be reduced as shown in this picture. At this point you can serve the hot soup in a dish with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and the cubes of bread on the top or if you like you can take half of the soup, blend it,

Soup of Spelt and Chickling

add it again to the rest of the soup, mix well and serve hot with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and the cubes of bread on the top.

Soup of Spelt and Chickling


BUON APPETITO!

6 comments:

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Spill said...

Its a great recipe..mouth watering love to have this on the table..thanks for sharing this one

La Boheme Lounge said...

Looks like good but not that easy to prepare. But I will definitely try it I will trust my guts this time. :)
Thanks for sharing

Mike said...

I really like this one. It relates to my likes. Looks delicious! We are having some Italian cuisine competition with cool prize, maybe someone would like to join? Go to www.justgrobio.com

Vera said...

That spelt and chickling makes me hungry :-)