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Ribollita is a famous Tuscan soup a hearty potage made with bread and vegetables. There are many variations but the main ingredients always include leftover bread cannellini beans and inexpensive vegetables such as carrot cabbage beans silverbeet cavolo nero and onion. Its name literally means reboiled.Like most Tuscan cuisine the soup has peasant origins. It was originally made by reheating (i.e. reboiling) the leftover minestrone or vegetable soup from the previous day.