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Zuppa alla Valpellinentze

Ingredients

  • 12 slices bread such as rye or thinly sliced sourdough
  • 30 g butter
  • 250 g fontina cheese
  • 1 l beef broth
  • 1 savoy cabbage
  • 1 pinch cinnamon

Instructions

  • Boil the cabbage with broth for 5-10 minutes, you want it to become soft but not mushy. 
  • Take a casserole dish and you do a first layer of bread, then a layer of cabbage, then some cinnamon, then of cheese and you repeat for at least 2 times (nonna does for 2-3 or sometimes 4).
  • Be sure to end with cheese. 
  • Then you take the broth from earlier and you pour it all over this. With a fork, try to spread it really well so that everything is wet by the broth. Doesn't have to be submerged, just softened and wet with the broth! 
  • Bake at 375℉ for about 40 minutes and cheese is bubbling and melty on top.
Course: Dinner
Keyword: Comfort food