Yield: 4 servings
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
3 pounds | Fresh fava beans; shelled, peeled |
2 tablespoons | Salt |
5 slices | Baguette or good French bread -; (1\" thick) |
3 \N | Garlic cloves; peeled |
¼ cup | Extra-virgin olive oil |
4 tablespoons | Sherry vinegar |
1 cup | Chicken stock; cool |
\N \N | Salt; to taste |
\N \N | Freshly-ground black pepper; to taste |
1 \N | Ripe cantaloupe |
Bring 3 quarts water to boil in a 6-quart saucepan and add 2 tablespoons of salt. Add fava beans and cook until tender, 1 to 1½ minutes. Drain favas and refresh in an ice bath. Remove crusts from bread and soak 2 minutes in water. Remove bread from water and press dry. Place bread, beans, garlic, olive oil and vinegar into a food processor and blend until smooth. With motor running, drizzle cool chicken stock into mixture in a thin stream.
Season with salt and pepper and refrigerate. Cut melon in half and remove seeds. Using a melon baller, form entire melon into ½-inch balls. Pour cool soup into chilled bowls and garnish with melon balls. This recipe yields 4 servings.
Recipe Source: MEDITERRANEAN MARIO with Mario Batali From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # ME-1B01 broadcast 05-25-1998) Downloaded from their Web-Site -
Formatted for MasterCook by Joe Comiskey, aka MR MAD - jpmd44a@...
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05-31-1998
Recipe by: Mario Batali
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