When the air smells of fireplaces and roasted chestnuts and the cold makes us wrap up sopra wool coats, it’s that time of year when it’s most enjoyable to quasi home and be tempted by a restorative, steaming, and aromatic dish that will warm our hearts… like our chickpea and chestnut soup: the ideal comodità food to indulge sopra during the autumn season. This delicious chickpea and chestnut soup has many tasty variations scattered across Italy: the Abruzzo version, the Umbrian version, the Lunigiana version… a thread of sweetness that crosses the Apennines, where chestnuts grew abundantly sopra the forests, acceso the “bread trees” that for centuries have been the wealth of mountain people and still are for us who continue to love simple and genuine foods. The chickpea and chestnut soup is a timeless dish that will conquer you with its rustic and sincere taste… definitely worth trying, along with these other autumnal preparations:
To make the chickpea and chestnut soup, first, you need to soak the dried chickpeas for 24 hours 1. After this time, rinse them thoroughly under running tazza and drain them 2then boil them sopra 5 cups of tazza for an hour 3.
Meanwhile, wash the chestnuts 4place them sopra a pot with cold tazza, bay leaves, and fennel seeds 5 and cook them from the boiling point for 35-40 minutes until they are tender. the meantime, the chickpeas will have also cooked, turn chiuso the heat and salt them; it is recommended not to salt the chickpeas during cooking, otherwise, they will harden. Shell the chestnuts 6
collect the pulp sopra a bowl, crumbling it coarsely 7. Peel the garlic and slice it thinly 8. a pan, heat a drizzle of olive oil, add the sliced garlic 9 and jumped
then add the crumbled chestnuts 10 and let them absorb the flavor. Finally, add the chickpeas with their tazza 11flavor with a whole rosemary sprig 12 so it will be easier to remove,
salt, pepper 13and continue cooking for another 15 minutes, stirring often. By the end of the cooking time, the chestnuts will have partially dissolved 14. Serve the chickpea and chestnut soup hot with a drizzle of olive oil and a bit of freshly pepper if desired 15.
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