Minestrone alla Milanese con Riso e Pesto di Lardo
Milan, Lombardia
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Origin
Milan, Lombardia
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Description
The Milanese minestrone differs from the Genoese in two key ways: it contains Arborio or Vialone Nano rice (not pasta) and is finished with a pestata di lardo — lard pounded with garlic and rosemary — stirred in off heat. This pestata is the Lombard ancestor of Ligurian pesto: a fat-based aromatic condiment that enriches and perfumes the hot soup when added at the end. The combination of seasonal vegetables, legumes, rice, and lard pestata produces a soup that is distinctly Lombard in character.
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The Thread
—Vegetable soup finished at service with a raw aromatic paste — the pesto version of the same pestata-at-service principle Ligurian
—Provençal vegetable soup enriched with a raw herb-fat paste at service — the French version with herbs instead of lard French · (Provence)
—Vegetable and legume stew finished with a cooked or raw aromatic enrichment — the Iberian parallel Spanish
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Flavour Context
Seasonal vegetable and rice soup enriched at the last moment by a lard-rosemary-garlic paste — the Milanese minestrone whose Lombard character lives in the pestata, not the vegetables
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