Simple ingredients that give life to a dish worthy of a king, discover the recipe for the Pavese soup by Carlo Cracco
Ingredients
- 1 L beef broth
- 300 g breadcrumbs
- 300 g Red Port
- 60 g taleggio cheese (preferably goat)
- 6 eggs
- 1 onion
- baguette type bread with cereals
- laurel
- garlic
- extra virgin olive oil
- butter
- red wine vinegar
- peanut oil
- salt
For the recipe of the Pavese soup, prepare the eggs the previous evening: form a bed of breadcrumbs in 6 cups or 6 small casseroles. Break the eggs into a bowl, take the egg yolks, place them in the cups, cover them gently with more breadcrumbs and place them in the fridge for 7 hours.
Slice the onion into thin slices.
Dissolve in a pan a knob of butter with a little extra virgin olive oil and brown 1 clove of garlic with the peel, crushed.
Unite onion, 1 bay leaf and sauté very gently, gradually wetting with the Port: let it evaporate by raising the heat so that the alcohol evaporates. Season with salt. When the onion is wilted, add a tablespoon of vinegar: the consistency should be melting and homogeneous.
Cut the baguette in bias slices 5 mm thick. You can also use a dry bread such as the Tuscan one: in this case cut it into rectangles of the same thickness.
Toasted the slices of bread in the oven until golden and crispy croutons are obtained.
Lay down on each crostino a 6-7 mm thick slice of taleggio cheese; place them on the open mouth of the hot oven to slightly melt the cheese.
Complete the croutons with 1 tablespoon of caramelized onion.
Free the yolks from the excess breadcrumbs and fry them in peanut oil at 160 ° C for a few moments, until a light crust forms.
Lay them down on croutons on plates, sprinkle with hot broth and serve immediately.