Büséca Ticino Tripe Soup.

Preparations:

1. Blanch the pork tail and pork rind, cold quench, rinse. Peel the onions and garlic. Roughly dice the onions and slice the garlic. Peel and core the tomatoes and cut into large cubes. Wash and dry vegetables, prepare, cut bite-sized. Wash herbs, spin dry, pluck, do not chop. Lightly toast the fennel seeds, mace and caraway seeds in a frying pan without fat. Peel the potatoes, wash them, cut them in half and put them in cold water.

Second step :

1. Cut the cabbage and cabbage stalk leaves into wide strips. Wash the leek, cut into small pieces 1-1.5 cm thick. Kohlrabi, celeriac, peel, wash, cut into 1-1.5 cm cubes. Cut white cabbage stalks into slices. Cut the courgette into large cubes. Finely grate the fennel seeds, mace and caraway seeds in a mortar. Core the chilli peppers and cut into fine strips.

Third step :

1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan (strong), add the tripe, pork tail and rind and fry, reduce the temperature, add the onions, garlic and sauté. Increase the temperature slightly, add the tomato puree and sauté. Add diced tomatoes and sauté. After a few minutes, deglaze with a little wine and let it dry out completely. Repeat this process until the wine is used up. Deglaze with the broth,

Fourth step :

1. Add the sliced ​​vegetables. Strip the herbs in it, add the spices and chilli. If necessary, add more stock, depending on what you want, soup or stew. In the meantime, boil the potatoes in salted water until they are soft, remove them, old them warm.

Get ready :

1. Try to see if the tripe is soft. If they are soft, fish the pork tails and rinds out and cut them into strips 2-3 cm long and 1 cm wide. Remove the bones from the pork tail, cut the meat into the same strips and give the soup back.

Serving:

1. Distribute the soup in the preheated soup plate, place 3 potatoes on each plate and garnish with a sprig of basil. Instead of potatoes, you can also serve dark bread or fried polenta slices. In the farming family in Ticino it is customary to put 1 glass of red wine (Merlot) in the plate.

Note :

1. Merlot is made from Americano grapes. This type of grape is almost exclusively found in Ticino. It is also very common throughout Northern Italy, especially in the Veneto region. The Italian wine is also cheaper than the Swiss. Macis is the shell of the nutmeg. Has the same taste, only slightly milder and finer.