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Recipe Endive and cuttlefish salad with orange jelly and black sauce – Italian Cuisine


  • 800 g 4 cuttlefish
  • 40 g sugar
  • 1 organic orange
  • 1 head of escarole
  • cardamom
  • milk
  • dry white wine
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • salt

For the recipe of the escarole and cuttlefish salad with orange jelly and black sauce, remove the orange caps (if they are beautiful, you can also keep them).
Cut the sliced ​​fruit, without peeling it, and collect everything in a saucepan with the sugar, 1 cardamom pod and 120 g of water.
Cook over medium heat for about 30 minutes, then add another 150 g of water and, after 15 minutes, another 50 g of water: by combining it a little at a time, evaporation is better controlled and prevents the cooking mixture from drying out too much. Cook for another 15 minutes.
Switch off and blend with the immersion blender, adding a pinch of salt: blend before it cools, to prevent the pectin present in the orange from starting to congeal, making it more difficult to bind it to the aqueous part in a homogeneous gelatin.
Leave then cool the gelatine obtained.
Wash the escarole and clean it by removing only the oxidized part of the stem, where it has been cut. Separate the heart from the outermost part, without "undoing" the clump.
Cook the outer part in boiling water, with a pinch of salt and 1/2 glass of milk: the milk will keep it a nice light color and will remove some of the bitterness. Boil it for 18-20 minutes, then drain it.
Clean cuttlefish: remove the central bone, remove the eyes and carefully recover the pockets of black.
Cut the bodies in three parts.
Crush the bags in a small bowl to obtain the black: dilute it with a spoonful of oil.
Roasted the cuttlefish (the bodies, the "wings" and the heads) in a very hot pan with a drizzle of oil and a pinch of salt, for 3 minutes.
Remove them from the pan, remove the remaining oil and deglaze the pan by pouring a splash of white wine: as it warms up, it will melt the caramelization of the fish. Add the black and dilute it, cooking everything for 2 minutes. You will get a sauce.
Cut the escarole cooked in 4 parts and place them on the plates. Arrange the roasted cuttlefish on top, then the raw escarole leaves. Complete the dish with the orange jelly and the black sauce.
To recover: all possible waste ingredients have been used: the orange peel is in the gelatin; the outer leaves and the more fibrous ribs of the escarole, boiled, complete the salad. The cuttlefish ink, mixed with oil and cooking juices, is used to prepare the accompanying sauce.

Recipe: Giovanni Rota, Photo: Riccardo Lettieri, Styling: Beatrice Prada

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Recipe Russian salad with quail and lumpfish eggs – Italian Cuisine


There is no Piedmontese who does not want it on the Christmas table, and the Milanese are no different, so much so that in those days the award-winning Peck gastronomy sells two and a half tons. It is one of the "assembled pieces" of the great cuisine that has migrated from the French noble tables to those of the Russian nobility. Hence the name. Even the dishes of which Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour was greedy, came from there, before a bourgeois gastronomy was formed in Piedmont which spread this dish as a coat of arms for special occasions. Today, almost vegetarian, it promises to become a new best seller of the table

  • 250 g potatoes
  • 250 g carrots
  • 200 g sunflower oil
  • 150 g frozen peas
  • 100 g Greek yogurt
  • 30 g lumpfish roe
  • 12 quail eggs
  • 8 gherkins
  • 1 egg
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 edible gold leaf
  • mustard
  • sugar
  • smoked paprika
  • salt

For the recipe Russian salad with quail and lumpfish eggs, peeled and peeled potatoes and carrots. Cut the vegetables into cubes of about 5 mm.
Cook them separately, starting from cold salted water, calculating 9-10 minutes for the potatoes, 7 minutes for the carrots and 1 minute for the peas from the boil.
Drain the vegetables and distribute them on a cloth to let them cool and dry completely.
Boil quail eggs for 6 minutes from boiling, then let them cool in cold water.
Chop finely the gherkins.
Prepare yogurt mayonnaise: in a tall and wide glass pour the sunflower oil, then the egg, a pinch of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of mustard and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Blend with the hand blender, moving the blender rod up and down for 30 seconds, until you get a creamy mixture. Gently stir in the Greek yogurt and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Peel quail eggs and divide them in half lengthwise.
Mix the vegetables and the chopped gherkins with 3/4 of the mayonnaise.
Pour the mixture in an oval mold (12 × 25 cm approximately) lined with cling film. Let it rest in the fridge for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Mix the remaining mayonnaise with 1 teaspoon of paprika and place it in a pastry bag.
Turn out the Russian salad on a serving dish and decorate the edges with quail eggs interspersed with sprigs of paprika mayonnaise. Complete with lumpfish roe and decorated with gold leaf.

Recipe and texts: Sara Tieni, Photos: Riccardo Lettieri, Styling: Beatrice Prada

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Canapes with Russian salad with tuna – Italian Cuisine

»Canapes with Russian salad with tuna


If you haven't done it yet, make the Russian salad.
Drain the tuna well and mix it with the Russian salad (if it is whole fillet fillets, chop it up first).
Add the mayonnaise and mix again.

Cut the bread into slices and lightly toast it in a non-stick pan on both sides.

Stuff each piece of bread with a little Russian tuna salad, then decorate with a slice of olive.

The canapes with tuna Russian salad are ready, you just have to serve them.

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