Soupe au Pistou

Name: Soupe au Pistou
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 cup white beans; 2 carrots, diced; 2 potatoes, diced; 2 cups fresh basil, blended with garlic and olive oil

Soupe au Pistou/soop oh pees-TOO/

Also known as: Pistou Soup

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

About this dish

A vegetable and bean soup finished with a garlicky basil paste, the French answer to pesto.

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Ingredients

🫘1 cup white beans

🥕2 carrots, diced

🥔2 potatoes, diced

🌿2 cups fresh basil, blended with garlic and olive oil

Method

Serves 3

Simmer beans, carrots, and potatoes in water until tender.

Blend basil, garlic, and olive oil into a smooth pistou paste.

Stir the pistou into the hot soup just before serving.

Season with salt and pepper.

Serve with crusty bread.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Soupe au pistou is a specialty of Provence, showing close ties to Italian pesto through the pistou paste stirred in at the end.

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