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Pasta e patate soup

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Pasta e patate

Respecting standards of taste, authenticity and decorum, it is the easiest and probably cheapest recipe known to me. The ubiquity of the ingredients – potatoes and pasta – and the simplicity of the preparation should therefor be concealed when cooking for guests. Actually, this is a dish that should not be cooked for more than four people: it must be eaten piping hot, in silence; it is a dish that decompresses, it is a prelude for what lays ahead, it compensates for lost certainties. Having a plate of pasta with potatoes means turning a page in a day, let go what has been, get ready for what’s to come. This dish symbolizes the archetypical mother, robust, caring, consoling, whispering ‘I know, I know, but now eat and it will all pass’. Comfort food by excellence.
  • Prep Time 10 Minutes
  • Cook Time 25 Minutes
  • Total Time 35 Minutes
  • Serves 4 People
  • Calories 250 kcal

Ingredients

  • 4 potatoes
  • 350 grams of pasta - short, hollow type
  • 150 ml of tomato sauce or 200 grams of peeled tomatoes
  • 1 big onion
  • salt, pepper, olive oil

Instructions

  1. Chop up the onion and sauté in olive oil
  2. Add the diced potatoes
  3. After 5 minutes add two cup of boiling water
  4. Leave the potato to boil
  5. Half way through add the tomato sauce (after 10 minutes of boiling)
  6. Add the fresh boiled pasta and two cups of cooking water

Notes

This soup is serious. Actually, more than a soup it is a minestraThe liquid comes from the water pasta boils in. And not from the potato condiment. A highly requested extra ingredient is cheese. And this particular dish goes wonderfully well with provola. Thought other cheese will do fine as well.In Sicily there is a tradition of adding some saffron to the potatoes. It colors the dish bright yellow. Better not to add tomato when using saffron.  

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