Feast of tastes: Italy | Claudel Models

In this country the beginning of the New year Christmas culinary passions usually subside. And yet to sleep for the last festive meal of the year (in fact flowing in first) here, you just will not succeed. First, because the Italians until the morning will start of firecrackers and fireworks, strongly believing that the noise and the lights scare off the evil spirits from their homes, countries and the world at large. And secondly, new year's feast here still has not been canceled, and celebrate it with a known scale. Often a feast arrange sharing the cost: guests and hosts agree on who is responsible for what. On the table usually, however, as always, there is a pasta (usually conciliare —“shell” with ricotta), pizza, baked beans or lentil soup. Completes the Christmas meal cake — pannetone — ideally home-produced, the quality of which is judged on culinary skill of the hostess.

Lentil soup

300 g lentils, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1/3 celery, 3 tomatoes, 2 table spoons of olive oil, 1/3 tsp. spoon of nutmeg, 4 slices of bread with bran, 20 g of the chopped greenery.

— Чечевицу промойте, переложите
in a saucepan, pour 1.5 liters of water, bring to boil and simmer for 30 min.
— Лук очистите и мелко нарежьте. Морковь и сельдерей вымойте, очистите
and chop sticks. Vegetables put in water with lentils and cook for another 15 min. Remove from heat and using a blender make a smoothie.
— Помидоры опустите на 30 с в кипящую воду, очистите, мякоть измельчите в блендере. Соедините с пюре
from vegetables and lentils, add the butter, nutmeg. Mass lightly blend and pour into plates. In each, add the greens. Dry the bread in the toaster and serve the soup separately.