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Origin
Milan, Lombardia
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Description
Milan's canonical vegetable soup: a thick, long-cooked broth of seasonal vegetables — borlotti beans, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, celery, tomatoes — finished with Arborio rice stirred in during the final 18 minutes. The defining feature is lard-based soffritto and the finishing stir of pesto milanese (basil, lard, garlic) which gives the soup its characteristic green fragrance.
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The Thread
—Near-identical concept: Provençal vegetable soup finished with raw basil-garlic paste (pistou), likely sharing common Ligurian ancestry via the Riviera French
—Both are long-simmered legume and vegetable soups representing the domestic, economical cooking of their respective regional capitals Spanish
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Flavour Context
Earthy, starchy, deeply vegetable-forward with a bright herbal lift from raw pesto milanese — the definitive northern Italian winter soup
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