Garbanzo Minestrone Recipe - Cooking Index

Ingredients

• 4 cups
• 640g / 22oz Dried garbanzo beans - soaked in water
• With
• 1 teaspoon
• 5ml Baking soda - for 24 hours and
• Drained
• 1/4 cup
• 59ml Extra-virgin olive oil - plus
• 1 tablespoon
• 15ml Extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 tablespoons
• 30ml Flour
• 1/2 lb
• 227g / 8oz Pork rind - boiled for 20 Minutes and cut into thin strips
• 10 cups
• 2370ml Water - more or less
• 59ml Olive oil
• 1 Onion - finely chopped
• 2 Garlic cloves - minced
• 3 Fresh sage leaves - chopped
• 1 Branch rosemary - chopped
• Leaves from 2 stalks of celery - hold ribs aside
• 1 Baking potato - peeled, halved
• 2 Carrots - peeled, sliced
• 1/2 cup
• 73g / 2.6oz Broccoli rabe - chopped
• 2 Leeks, white part only - sliced
• 5 Cabbage leaves - cut chiffonade
• Salt - to taste
• Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste