Jota Triestina di Fagioli e Crauti
Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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Origin
Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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Description
The defining winter soup of the Triestine hinterland, a robust sour-fermented amalgam of borlotti beans, sauerkraut (crauti), smoked pork ribs or luganega affumicata, and potato, cooked together until the starches collapse and the soup takes on the sour, smoky character of its central European heritage. The crauti must be home-fermented or high-quality barrel sauerkraut — the industrial vinegar-preserved versions destroy the dish.
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The Thread
—Bean and sauerkraut soup of the Central European tradition, sharing the same lacto-fermented base German
—Sauerkraut and smoked meat soup — the same technique on the other side of the Alps Polish
—The immediate cross-border relative, nearly identical in composition Slovenian
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Flavour Context
Sour, smoky, starchy, deeply warming — the soup of a city at the crossroads of Latin and Central European culture, irreducibly itself
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