This One Soup Recipe Could Help You Live to 100
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Bust out the cookware, we know what’s for dinner. Turns out an easy-to-make, inexpensive soup that you likely enjoyed as a child could help you live longer. Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People, shared this minestrone soup recipe that comes from a Sardinian family known as “the world’s longest lived family.”
Well, isn’t that the raddest title a family could have.
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According to TODAY, the Melises family digs into a bowl of this soup every single day at lunch. My first thought: I would be bored out of my mind in a matter of weeks, maybe days. Not so with this recipe, though. Other than a base of beans and fregula—a toasted semolina pasta that’s popular in Sardinia—the family rotates ingredients to incorporate whatever is growing in the garden. And now you’ve got my attention.
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The only downside: The soup takes an hour and a half to cook. Which is basically the end of the world for us always-doing-something ladies. But don’t discount it yet—Sunday is a glorious day to prep food for the week. And sure, you could go with a shorter version, but allowing a longer cook time enhances the nutrients your body gets from the ingredients, like cancer-fighting lycopene in tomatoes and immune-boosting carotenoids in carrots. Plus, it just tastes better. So simmer on, my friends, simmer on.
Get the recipe here and enjoy those long-lived days.
By: Samantha Shelton
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