How to make Long Tall Sally Squash Soup Italian Name: Zucca Lunga

Cooking Long Tall Sally Squash Soup – Living the Life in Sicily – Cooking with Loredana. This soup is a typical Sicilian meal made with long squash. In Italian they call it Zucca Lunga and in Sicilian they call it Cucuzza Lonca. In Sicily the long squash grows prolifically and can grow up to two and a half metres or between seven and eight feet. It was a traditional soup made with garden ingredients at very little cost. A three foot long squash you can buy between 50 cents and $1.00. The squash is rich in minerals but not in protein.

ZUCCA LUNGA SOUP or LONG TALL SALLY SOUP (our name):

Ingredients:
1 long squash – 1 metre or 3 feet long
4 large potatoes
4 Shallots (onions)
Tomato Puree (We used the special puree from a jar, but you can use small cherry tomatoes)
EVOO – Olive Oil (We used Pioppi e Betulle Olive Oil, of course)
Salt & Pepper
Hot Red Pepper Flakes (to taste)
Water

Description:
Cut the squash in 3 pieces and peel. Cut it in half along the middle and remove the seeds. Cut the squash into about 1/2 inch wide pieces. Peel the potatoes, cut in half, and cut into 1/2 inch wide pieces. Peel the shallots and cut into small pieces. Add olive oil generously, approximately 1 cup. Add the salt, pepper and Hot Red Pepper Flakes. Add the tomato puree, 1 and 1/2 cup or use cherry tomatoes. Stir well and put onto stove on high heat with no water. Saute 1 minute, hear the sizzle. Add a water, a little at a time until the ingredients are covered. Simmer 1 hour.

Serves 4 people. Add Parmigiano Reggiano CHEESE to each bowl of soup

If you want to add protein to this meal, you can add eggs at the end. Let them steam until done.

Served with:
Salami and fresh baked bread. Loredana has a standing order – 1 loaf of bread that she picks up in Presa (the next village) every morning. She brought the salami from Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy when she visited her son last week.

SIDE DISH: Veal (thinly sliced with cheese) and baked in the oven. We had the veal and the cheese as the protein in this meal, but traditionally they could also have it with an egg.

WINE: Sicilian white table wine

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