Cookbook:Straciatella

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Straciatella is an Italian egg-drop soup. It uses a chicken broth base, and adds flavour with fresh parsley, parmesan cheese, and pepper.

Ingredients

• 4 cups of chicken broth
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup of shredded parmesan cheese
• fresh chopped parsley (~1/4 cup)
• Black pepper to taste (~1 tsp.)

Optional

Optionally, add some or all of the following for additional flavour:

• ~1/2 tsp. nutmeg
• semolina
• red chili flakes, or chili powder

Procedure

• Put the broth in a large pot, and bring to a boil
• Separately, combine eggs, cheese, and parsley, and beat until the cheese and parsley are wet
• Once the broth is at a rolling boil, use a whisk to set the fluid whirling
  • Slowly add the egg mixture, keeping the broth at a boil so the egg cooks quickly
  • Remove from heat, and add pepper
  • Serve immediately, or reheat and serve very hot.

If the egg flakes instead of forming stracciatelle (long, wispy and cloud-like shreds), then do something differently. I dunno what :)

Since parmesan cheese is salty, it's unlikely you'll need to add more salt for flavour.