The bread is then wrung out, and tossed with tomatoes, onion, basil, and olive oil . This is a deep-fried rice croquette with a mozzarella filling. When you bite into it, the hot cheese stretching down from your chin resembles the cord of a telephone. This lovely and simple bread and tomato soup works only when the bread is excellent, the tomatoes red and ripe, and the olive oil top-notch. These elements carry the soup's flavor, aided only by a bit of chicken stock, garlic, and basil.
Raw fish is ground and bound with egg yolks and flour.
The mixture is rolled into balls that are then poached. Ribollita Ribollita means, literally, reboiled. It is a Florentine soup made by enriching and reheating yesterday's minestrone with good peasant bread. Risottos can take any form, some soupy, others rich and solid. When tinged with saffron , Risotto alla Milanese wears one of its most famous and ancient guises.