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Duck legs lacquered with bitter vegetables – Italian Cuisine

Duck legs lacquered with bitter vegetables


Legs lacquered with bitter vegetables, preparation

1) Trimmed duck legs e tie them up with a few rounds of kitchen twine, to keep them in shape.

2) Brown them in a saucepan with a drizzle of oil, making them brown on all sides. Eliminate some of the fat that will collect at the bottom of the saucepan e unite chopped onion and bay leaf. Cook for one twenty minutes.

3) In a bowl emulsified honey, sherry and soy sauce.

4) Transfer the thighs to a pan, sprinkle them with the emulsion and continue with cooking for 15-20 minutes in oven at 180 °, turning the pieces from time to time and checking that they do not burn.

5) Meanwhile, clean the vegetables and cut them into pieces. Rub a pan with half a clove of garlic, heat up a drizzle of oil and jump vegetables with a few leaves of thyme.

6) Salt, pepper and remove from the heat when the vegetables are still very crunchy.

7) Serve duck legs, veiled with the sauce, with their vegetable side dish.

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Posted on 11/24/2021

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Sweet ravioli recipe with nuts and bitter herbs – Italian Cuisine

Sweet ravioli recipe with nuts and bitter herbs


  • 25 g shelled walnuts
  • 25 g dried bread and smoothie
  • 1 teaspoon of brown sugar
  • dried herb mix (rosemary, bay leaf, mint, sage)
  • fresh wild herbs (cress, rocket, lemon balm, mint, sclopit or parsley, fennel)
  • butter
  • smoked ricotta

FOR PASTA
Knead flour with 120 g of water and a pinch of salt until the mixture is homogeneous and smooth.

FOR THE STUFFING
Jump fry the walnuts in a frothy knob of butter together with the bread and sugar.
Blend all in a mixer then add the mix of dried herbs and fresh field herbs.

TO PREPARE RAVIOLI
Roll out the dough with a pasta machine or with a rolling pin into very thin sheets (1-2 mm).
Arrange fill the pastry into small piles 5-6 cm apart, cover with the pastry itself and cut out the ravioli with a pastry wheel.
Cook them in boiling salted water. Meanwhile, heat a knob of butter in a large pan. Drain the ravioli and stir in the melted butter.
Complete them with grated smoked ricotta.

Recipe Figs with bitter herbs, red wine, vinegar and bay leaf with trout – Italian Cuisine

Recipe Figs with bitter herbs, red wine, vinegar and bay leaf with trout


  • 400 g red wine
  • 12 figs
  • 4 smoked trout fillets
  • sugar
  • honey
  • laurel
  • Juniper berries
  • balsamic vinegar
  • red wine vinegar

Arrange a dozen figs in a large pot without overlapping them; season with 1 tablespoon of sugar and 2 of honey. Add the red wine, 3 bay leaves, a few juniper berries, 3 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar and 1 of red wine vinegar.
Cover and cook over low heat for about ten minutes, turning the figs gently.
Find out the pot and continue cooking the figs for another 15 minutes, making them glaze in the liquid.
Serve fillets of trout completing with figs at room temperature and, to taste, with a mixed salad of fresh herbs (rocket, chervil, radicchietto, parsley, mint, fennel).
If you want to marinate and smoke the trout
Cover the salmon trout fillets with a mixture of salt (60%) and brown sugar (40%). Leave them to marinate for 2 hours, depending on the thickness. Finally rinse them, dry them and smoke them, being careful not to overcook them: place a tuft of hay and some wood shavings in a saucepan, set them on fire, turn off the heat to make them smoke; immediately put in a grill for steam cooking and put the trout on it. Close the lid, seal it and let the fish smoke for 5-8 minutes.

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