Whilst spending so much time in France, particularly the Provence region, you learn how to cook delicious food with whatever ingredients you can find or that are grown locally. That is the joy of this area \u2013 there is always something available to make great, healthy dishes.<\/p>\n
Soupe au pistou, is one such dish. Of course, there are traditional methods of creating this soup, but the fun is making it different each time \u2013 just some subtle changes can lift the soup and make you feel you have never eaten it before!<\/p>\n
The one thing that cannot be radically changed is the \u2018pistou\u2019 itself. Whatever happens, pistou must not be confused with \u2018pesto\u2019 \u2013 it is simply not the same. Even though some of the ingredients are, the key difference is that pistou does not include pine nuts, which are vital in pesto, to create that unique nutty and earthy flavour.<\/p>\n
Whilst this soup is credited to the Nice area in the south, other culinary references state that it originated just over the border into Italy, primarily the Genoese region. It is less than a hundred miles, but food as we all know travels!<\/p>\n
Soupe au pistou<\/strong><\/p>\n To make this wholesome and heart-warming soup, do pick your ingredients wisely and to your own taste. A combination of root and leaf vegetables, plus your pistou, will transport you to the sunny climes of Provence and all it has to offer.<\/p>\n The main element to remember is the length of time it takes to cook various vegetables and beans (legumes) \u2013 if you cook them all together at the same time, you could end up with \u2018half mush and half hard\u2019! We want \u2018soup not gloop and this recipe shows how to avoid this problem by choosing vegetables you can cook all at the same time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whilst spending so much time in France, particularly the Provence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[306,9,310,315,124,3,36,32],"tags":[105,65,51,50,109,49,77,158,367,95,161,57],"class_list":["post-1428","recipes","type-recipes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","category-brown","category-dinner","category-globalicious","category-intl","category-mild","category-summer","category-vegetables","category-vegetarian","tag-basil","tag-cannellini-beans","tag-carrot","tag-celery","tag-fennel","tag-garlic","tag-olive-oil","tag-parsnip","tag-savoy-cabbage","tag-thyme","tag-turnip","tag-yellow-onion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipes\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/recipes"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}