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Minestrone alla genovese is a thick soup of beans, potatoes, pumpkin, courgettes, cabbage and short pasta, finished off the heat with a spoonful of pesto and eaten hot or cold in Genoa.
Genoa's tourist office describes minestrone as a child of the cucina povera, a pot of whatever the garden gave, thickened by crushing the potatoes and beans halfway through cooking and made Genoese by the pesto stirred in at the end. Ligurian cooking has long added pesto to its minestroni, the vegetable soups richest in autumn, and the tourist office recipe still serves it in deep bowls, left to rest before eating and just as good cold.
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Il Genovese on Via Galata in Genoa opened in 1912 as a farinata shop called Raggio and keeps its wood oven; the menu lists pansoti, frisceü and stoccafisso.
OrderPansoti with walnut sauce, or the stoccafisso accomodato alla genovese.
TipPhone bookings are taken from 10:00 on +39 010 869 2937; takeaway and delivery run daily from 11:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 22:30.
Osteria Il Cadraio, in a former coach depot beside Via Garibaldi in Genoa, serves Ligurian dishes, farinata and focaccia every day at lunch and dinner.
OrderFarinata or focaccia at lunch, or the minestrone genovese, which the kitchen can serve without pasta.
TipIts booking page says it closes on Sundays in July and August, and requests after 19:00 must be made by phone.
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