How much pavese to cook?

Cooking pork broth will take 1.5 hours. The eggs should be fried for 5 minutes.

How to cook pavese

Products
Pork - half a kilo
Onions - 1 piece
Carrots - 1 piece
Root celery - 1 piece
Baton - 8 slices
Butter - 80 grams
Eggs - 8 pieces
Grated Parmesan - 80 grams
Bay leaf - 2 pieces
Black or allspice pepper - 5 peas
Salt to taste
Water - 3 liters

How to cook pavese soup
1. Rinse the meat thoroughly, put in a saucepan.
2. Wash and peel celery, carrots, and onions.
3. Fill a saucepan with pork water (3 liters), add vegetables.
4. Remove the foam until the broth boils, reduce the heat and continue cooking.
5. When the amount of foam decreases, salt the pavese broth, add bay leaf and pepper.
6. The broth is cooked for 1.5 hours over low heat, then you must strain.
7. Lightly fry the loaf slices on each side using butter.
8. On the bottom of the pan, which has a non-stick coating, place the resulting croutons.
9. Pour the eggs onto the croutons, try to keep the yolks intact.
10. Leave the saucepan on the fire.
11. When the eggs are fried, pour in the broth, rub the cheese on top.
12. Serve, as a rule, after allowing the cheese to melt.

Fusofacts

- According to legend, the soup was born in the vicinity of the Italian city of Pavese in 1525, when the army of the Holy Roman Empire defeated the French king Francis I. The defeated monarch wandered into a local farm in search of food and asked the hostess to feed him something - from everything that was under hand, she prepared the first pavese.

- The town of Pavese (today it is called the commune of Robecco-Pavese) is located in the heart of Lombardy, one of the northern regions of Italy, with picturesque nature, excellent wines and delicious cuisine made from local products.

- The reign of Francis I went down in history with the beginning of wars between the Habsburgs (Spain, Germany) and the French dynasties of Valois and Bourbons, the formation of absolutism within the country and the development of the Renaissance.Francis was an eccentric person, because such a simple soup attracted his attention and eventually gained fame all over the world.

November 20, 2015 Last update June 7, 2020Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova

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