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the classic recipe of a timeless appetizer – Italian Cuisine

the classic recipe of a timeless appetizer


There is no Christmas or New Year without a Russian salad! But do it at home, it will be something else entirely

  • 250 g peeled carrots
  • 250 g peeled potatoes
  • 250 g peanut oil
  • 125 g frozen peas
  • 125 g pickled gherkins
  • 7 eggs
  • apple vinegar
  • mustard
  • lemon
  • salt

There is no Christmas or New Year without a Russian salad! But do it at home starting from the artisan mayonnaise, it will all be another thing

For the classic Russian salad recipe, cut the potatoes into slices 1 cm thick; cut the slices into sticks of 1 cm and finally the sticks into cubes. Dice the carrots like potatoes. Boil the two vegetables separately, starting from cold salted water: from the rising of the boil, calculate about 10 minutes for the potatoes and 7-8 for the carrots. Drain the potatoes and carrots al dente and spread them on a tray, keeping them apart. Boil the peas in boiling salted water and drain them when boiling.

Also spread out on a tray. All vegetables must cool down and dry well so as not to release moisture and water down the salad. Boil 4 eggs for 8 minutes from boiling. Once cold, shell them, cut the albumen and separate it from the yolk. Cut the egg whites and egg yolks into small pieces. Cut the gherkins into cubes. Collect one egg and 2 egg yolks, 2-3 pinches of salt, a nice teaspoon of mustard, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and the juice of half a lemon in the glass of the blender.

Blend briefly to mix the ingredients, then begin to add the oil and continue blending until it is full. You will have to get a soda mayonnaise. Put the cold vegetables, boiled eggs, gherkins and mayonnaise in a bowl. Stir carefully until the mayonnaise is distributed evenly.

50 recipes for an appetizer from bis – Italian Cuisine


When we think of an appetizer to prepare at home, the imagination immediately flies to bruschetta, cold cuts and cheeses and savory pies. But why not give us something more? Inspired by restaurant menus, we can devote a little more attention to this, carefully choosing the most suitable recipe to open the menu.
If the courses include fish-based recipes, for example, it will be good to recall it also in the antipasto that will tantalize the guests with delicious combinations such as the cream of shellfish with porcini mushrooms and black truffle, thesmoked fish salad and dried fruit, the delicate bruschetta with thyme and lemon with scampi, le scallops roast with leek and polenta cream and many other ideas that you will find in this collection. If the menu to follow will instead be based on meat and vegetables, it can be opened with tasty proposals such as tigelle with lard and chanterelles, grated shavings with braised pumpkin, mozzarella bites fried and grilled vegetables,donuts with shallots and cabbage salad and many other ideas. But getting closer to the appetizer, the most frivolous and playful dish on the menu, it is good to put aside every rule and let the imagination fly, even daring a little. The dishes that contain anchovies for example, also lend themselves to opening a meat menu, try it!

Polenta, lentils, liver mortadella.
Polenta, lentils, liver mortadella.

Here are endless possibilities for matching with recipes: samoza chickpea curry with yoghurt cream, tartlets whole with porcini mushrooms, grana puff pastry with figs and ham, mixed with Japanese daikon and miso, Sarde A Beccafico, fried dumplings with anchovies and caramelized lemon, polenta, lentils, liver mortadella, endive crostini, pumpkin millefoglie crunchy, Norma-style Friselle, North African eggs with peppers and tomatoes, pizza, figs and speck, beaten beef with lemon thyme in cabbage leaves, chicken wings with anchovy and paprika chard sauce cocoa donuts, culatello and pumpkin mostarda, creamed cod and cauliflower scapece with saffron, yolk and mushrooms on pumpkin cream, sweet and sour figs, carpaccio with raspberry sauce, garlic soup, fried sandwiches stuffed with ham and porcini mushrooms, thyme pancakes with smoked tuna and sour cream, speck ramequin, spinach and eggs, nerves salad, zolfini beans and peppers, poached eggs in crunchy little bundle and pumpkin cream, strudel of vegetables and fontina, Sandwich with lard, honey and red radicchio, trout salting with broccoli, shrimp and pumpkin chips with almonds, chestnut pancakes and apple with red radicchio, vegetable croquettes breaded with taralli, supplì on the telephone, crispy curry spindles, seafood croquettes and fried fish, rice balls in pancetta, focaccia with scarola and spinach, pork mousse and raw vegetables, tigelle stuffed and saffron sauce, Belgian endive braised in orange and Grand Marnier, crushed onions of Cannara, mücver, courgette fritters, crunchy nuggets with a tender heart, a gratinated appetizer of pears, taleggio and speck.

Crispy curry spindles.
Crispy curry spindles.

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tomato, from appetizer to dessert – Italian Cuisine

tomato, from appetizer to dessert


The tomato in the kitchen? Follow the advice of the chefs at La Scuola de La Cucina Italiana for alternative uses with which to amaze your guests!

Summer is the season of red gold: whole fields cultivated with different varieties of tomato, which ripen giving us great satisfaction. Its variations in the kitchen are endless, from classic traditional dishes to the most innovative recipes. The tomato can therefore be the protagonist of many dishes; The chefs at La Scuola de La Cucina Italiana know this ingredient perfectly, turning it from appetizer to dessert: follow their advice!

Tomato can be used as a base ingredient for one granita or a sorbet salty, to combine with a raw fish or meat. You can sauté in a pan with oil and garlic, slice in a salad or fill with many ingredients, from bread to rice, from cheese to tuna or embellish with some flakes of bottarga. The tomato can also be used as an intermezzo between one dish and another to clean the palate, given its slightly acid freshness, perfect for restoring balance in the mouth.

To refresh the hot summer days, why not prepare a delicious cocktail like the Bloody Mary? Or a beautiful one tomato soup? As an ingredient allows you to give the green light to personal imagination. Summer is also the perfect time for i sauces raw: simply take ripe tomatoes, put them in boiling water for a maximum of ten minutes just to peel them easily without cooking them, so as not to lose their freshness; then you have to gently squeeze and cut them into pieces, adding basil and extra virgin olive oil: it will be an irresistible sauce to season your pasta!

In the preparation of the second course the tomato can be used in various ways, for example in fish stew and fish stew. Finally, its sweeter note reveals the tomato in desserts, where it also contributes with its note of acidity, used as a mother ingredient or as a transverse component, such as tomato confit.

Tomato sauce, clams and chopped cucumbers

Ingredients for 4 people:
For the stew
300 g cluster tomatoes
150 g cherry tomatoes
80 g Tropea spring onion
salt
Extra virgin olive oil
500 g clams
300 g cucumbers
Garlic clove
Parsley
Chili pepper
White wine

Method:
Wash the clams and eliminate the broken ones; put them in cold water and let them drain in the refrigerator for two hours; wash them again. Heat half of the oil, garlic and very little chili pepper; add the clams, cover and shake the saucepan, add white wine and cook for about 2 minutes. Warm, partially shell the clams and strain the cooking liquid into the very thin sieve. For the stew: wash the tomatoes and cut them. Blend the tomatoes with half of Tropea spring onion and season to taste with salt and oil. Wash and peel the cucumbers, remove the internal seeds and cut them into fine brunoise. Once ready all the ingredients, compose the dish and serve.

Do you want to learn more about the use of ingredients in the kitchen? Check here the schedule of the courses of La Scuola de La Cucina Italiana!

Texts by Giulia Ubaldi

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