Tag: italianrecipe

Fig & Walnut Jam

INGREDIENTS:
1lb peeled black figs
3 tbsps granulated sugar
3 tbsps fresh lemon juice
Lemon peel
1/2 tsp grated ginger
4 tbsps walnuts, broken in pieces.

Figs


TOOLS:
1 knife and 1 bowl
Juicer
1 deep stainless steel saucepan
1 serving spoon to stir
2 sterilized glass jars with their lid
Clean towels to let the jar sit overnight

Figs ready to be cooked

STEPS:
. Mix all the ingredients, except the walnuts, in a bowl and let them sit the fridģe for a couple of hours.
. Put them in a deep stainless steel saucepan.
. Turn on the burner on low.
. Let it simmer for 40 minutes, stirring once in a while.
. Take out the lemon peel, add the walnuts, stir and  turn off.
. Pour immediately the hot jam in the 2 glass jars, close very well the cap and put the jars upside down among pieces of fabric to keep it warm and safe.
. After 24hrs, the jars are vacuumed and ready to be stored in a dark cabinet, for no longer than 2 months.
When you open a jar, keep it refrigerated and eat the jam within 10 days.
Enjoy it with buttered toasted bread or with soft cheese. It’s perfect for baking. .

Cooked Jam

Scallops au gratin

Quick and simple recipe

Recipe:

. Take out the scallops from the shell ( or you can buy them frozen without the shell);

. Bread in a mix made with fine breadcrumbs (use cornmeal instead if you are GF), finely chopped garlic, a dash salt, very finally chopped parsley, a dash of white pepper and Extra Virgin Olive Oil;

. Put back 5 scallops per shell, drizzle some EVOO and bake at 200°C for 5 minutes.

Eat right away, otherwise they will become chewy. Do not reheat.


That was easy!

Tunafish balls with Green Olive Pate and Ricotta Cheese

I experimented a new recipe and I madeTunafish balls with Green Olives Pate courtesy of Frantoio Bonamini

http://www.oliobonamini.com/

Tuna fish balls with Green olive pate

RECIPE

Ingredients: 4 tbsps canned tunafish in EVO, 4 tbsps Ricotta Cheese, 2 tbsps Green Olive Pate, 1 egg, 2 or 3 tbsps breadcrumbs in the mix, more breadcrumbs to roll the tubafish balls, Extra Virgin Olive Oil to spray on the balls before baking.
Mix very well all the ingredients with a spoon and then make balls as big as a wallnut.
Preheat at 200°C the oven and bake for about 30 minutes.
Enjoy!

Vegetable Broth

Veggie Broth

Here is the recipe of the basic vegetable broth I often cook for making  brodino con pastina – broth with little shape pasta –

Ingredients:

2 carrots, 1 onion, 1 potato

Wash, peel, cut the vegetable in quarters or big pieced and put them in a pot

Add about 4 liters – 1 gallon of water.

Add 1 teaspoon of salt – I use seasalt.

Put the pot on the stove, cover with a lid and turn on the burner on, setting it on high.

When it starts boiling, turn the burner on very low. The broth needs still to simmer. You cook it for about 1 hour.

Bouling broth
Burner on low

It’s ready after about 1 hour when al the vegetables are soft.

Ready Veggie Broth

You separate the liquid part from the vegetables. The liquid part is the broth. It’s ready to be used.

Filtered Broth, it’s ready to be used

The vegetables can be eaten in pieces

Cooked vegetables

or you can blend them with an immersion blender and eat them as a soup.

Blending
Ready blended vegetables

Enjoy the soup!

Yummy