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ITALIAN RECIPES TRADITIONAL AND CREATIVE 

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Recipe:  white beans "al fiasco" (cannellini al fiasco), Italian traditional vegetarian recipe.

The al fiasco cooking is a traditional Italian cooking of Tuscany . It consisted in putting water, white beans, salt and aromas into a bottle called “fiasco”, the famous traditional bottle used also nowadays for the Chianti wine. It was then hermetically sealed with a cork and laid in the chimney under hot cinders during all the night. The day after the “fiasco” was broken and the beans had a fantastic smell, in this manner they had also saved wood. Essentially it was the same proceeding of the pressure pot, that nowadays is very useful for cooking this excellent speciality. But if you have a chimney you can try …

BASIC INGREDIENTSCANNELLINI (WHITE BEANS)
typologyTRADITIONAL
ConservationPOSSIBLE 1 WEEK
seasonWINTER
difficultiesLOW

Timetable

           served  40 MINUTES  (minimum)
cooking 3  MINUTES + EVAPORATION

stand by

10 MINUTES  
 working   10 MINUTES 

suggested wine: dry red

ingredients for 4 persons

WHITE BEANS (CANNELLINI)LBS.1,10500 GRAMS
WATER4 PINTS2 LITRES
GARLIC1 CLOVE1 CLOVE
SAGE3 LEAVES3 LEAVES
LAUREL3 LEAVES3 LEAVES
EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL2 TABLESPOONS2 TABLESPOONS
COARSE SALT1 PINCH1 PINCH

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