Wedding soup
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Wedding soup or Italian wedding soup is an Italian-American[1] soup consisting of green vegetables and meat. It is popular in the United States, where it is a staple in many Italian restaurants.
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[edit] Ingredients
Wedding soup consists of green vegetables (usually endive and escarole or cabbage, lettuce, kale, and/or spinach) and meat (usually meatballs and/or sausage) in a clear chicken-based broth. Wedding soup sometimes contains cavatelli, acini di pepe,pastina, other pasta, lentils, or shredded chicken.
[edit] Origin
Wedding Soup or Italian Wedding Soup is an Italian-American dish consisting of green vegetables and meat. It is popular in the United States, especially Youngstown, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where it is a staple in many local restaurants. The term "wedding soup" is a mistranslation of the Italian language minestra maritata, which is a reference to the fact that green vegetables and meats go well together. Some form of minestra maritata was long popular in Toledo, Spain before pasta became an affordable commodity to most Spaniards. The modern wedding soup is quite a bit lighter than the old Spanish form, which contained more meats than just the meatballs of modern Italian-American versions.
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- Minestra Maritata
- Recipe at foodnetwork.com
- About.com page on the history of wedding soup
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