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, especially northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, where it is a staple in many local restaurants.
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[edit] Ingredients
Wedding soup consist of green vegetables (usually endive and escarole or cabbage, lettuce, kale, and/or spinach) and meats (usually meatballs and/or sausage) in a clear chicken-based broth. Wedding soup sometimes contains pasta, noodles, cavatelli, lentils, or shredded chicken.
[edit] Origin
The term "wedding soup" is a mistranslation of the Italian language, minestra maritata ("married soup"), 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, though the modern wedding soup is quite a bit lighter than the old Spanish form, which contained quite a few more meats than just the meatballs of modern Italian-American versions.
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- Kitchen Mailbox
- Minestra Maritata
- Recipe at foodnetwork.com
- About.com page on the history of wedding soup
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