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Recipe Warm crostini with cooked ham and horseradish – Italian Cuisine


  • 4 slices of cooked ham
  • 4 sweet and sour gherkins
  • 2 slices of homemade bread
  • salted butter
  • fresh horseradish (or horseradish sauce)
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    Cut sliced ​​gherkins.

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    Divide halve the slices of bread and heat them in the oven, obtaining croutons; spread them with soft butter, place a slice of ham on each crouton, a sliced ​​gherkin, completed with a grated horseradish (or the tip of a teaspoon of sauce) and serve.

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    Wine pairing: a red for an aperitif? It can be done, as long as it is light and served cool (around 14 ° C). The Santa Maddalena Classico Huck am Back 2019 by Cantina Bolzano, juicy and fruity, is drunk with great pleasure (13 euros, kellereibozen.com).

Recipe: Joëlle Néderlants, Texts: Valentina Vercelli; Photo: Riccardo Lettieri, Styling: Beatrice Prada

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Horseradish sauce, the Italian wasabi – Italian Cuisine

Horseradish sauce, the Italian wasabi


Horseradish sauce is a horseradish-based accompaniment. Have you never tried it? Making it at home is easy, but be careful: it is only for strong palates!

You are lovers of boiled, but you are tired of flavoring it only with green sauce? Or you have some eggs that are about to expire and you want to stuff them in an unusual way, adding a spicy touch to the dish? The solution is all in a single answer: the horseradish sauce.

What is horseradish

Nothing exotic: horseradish is also known as horseradish, and is a root that grows spontaneously in the hilly and mountainous areas of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. It can rarely be found further south, in Lazio or Basilicata.

This sauce can be obtained from this root, but it is not for everyone: only palates who love strong and decisive flavors can deal with it! In fact, it has a decidedly spicy and pungent taste.

Making it at home is very simple and fast: it takes a few ingredients and about half an hour. Below, find the recipe step by step, while in our gallery some suggestions on where to buy it e with what to combine it.

How to make horseradish sauce

Ingredients

To prepare the horseradish sauce at home, you will need: 250 grams of horseradish root or horseradish, 100 grams of breadcrumbs, 75 grams of white vinegar, 15 grams of sugar, 30 grams of extra virgin olive oil, salt to taste.

Method

Get a fresh horseradish root, wash it well under running water, removing any residue of earth, then scrape off the peel. Now, cut it finely and set it aside. Take the bread, remove the edges and cut the crumb into cubes. Add this to the chopped horseradish and soak everything with the white vinegar, also adding the extra virgin olive oil, sugar and salt. Stir vigorously with a spoon and, if needed, knead everything with your hands as well, until you get a creamy and homogeneous mixture: here is the horseradish sauce.

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Recipe Curry potatoes and friggitelli with horseradish and almond sauce – Italian Cuisine

Recipe Curry potatoes and friggitelli with horseradish and almond sauce


  • 1 kg small or new potatoes
  • 8 friggitelli peppers
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • spicy curry
  • chili pepper
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 70 g skinless almonds (alternatively, 120 g of almond cream, on sale in organic specialty shops)
  • vegetable broth
  • lemon
  • horseradish sauce or fresh horseradish
  • salt
  • pepper

To prepare curry potatoes and friggitelli with horseradish and almond sauce, wash the potatoes very well and boil them with the peel in boiling water for about 10-15 minutes; drain and cool quickly in cold water. Finally, cut them in half (or in quarters, if they are large).
Heat in a pan abundant oil with 1 clove of garlic (if you like, mince it) and 1 spoonful of curry. Add the potatoes and sauté them over high heat until they are tender and slightly golden; season with salt and pepper.
roasted the friggitelli peppers in a pan over high heat with a drizzle of oil, salt, pepper and chilli pepper, without a lid for a couple of minutes; then lower the heat, cover and finish cooking in 3-4 minutes.

FOR THE RADISH SAUCE
whisk almonds (or almond cream) with 3 teaspoons of horseradish sauce or 3 of grated horseradish, 50 g of vegetable broth, 30 g of water, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, salt and pepper until a creamy consistency is obtained. Collect the sauce in a bowl, sprinkle it with a little curry and serve to accompany the potatoes and friggitelli peppers.

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