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Recipe Recipe: prawns in spiced salt – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Stir-fried, boiled, grilled? The correct recipe for prawns tasty, juicy and which retain all the taste of the sea, we have it. It’s this one, the one with prawns in spiced salt. A preparation as simple as it is delicious, always good, perfect when the prawns are in season and at their best.

What is the prawn season?

Prawns are rather common crustaceans that are usually fished with trawl nets all year round in our seas. The best period to enjoy them, however, is from October to April, when prawn fishing tends to be concentrated.

How to understand if the prawns are fresh?

The perfect success of the recipe for prawns in spiced salt, needless to say, depends on the quality of the prawns. But how to understand if the prawns are fresh? First of all, you need to check the smell with your sense of smell: all fish, in general, must smell of the sea, and never have an unpleasant odor. The meat must then be compact, not soft, the head must be well attached to the body as well as the antennas. The eyes of the prawns must then be shiny, as well as the shell.

Roast chicken with potatoes recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

What does the potato pair perfectly with? With the chicken roast, for example. A happy marriage that has lasted for many years and immediately brings to mind the scent of Sundays spent with the family. The roast chicken with potatoes it is a great classic, tasty, always good and also easy to prepare. As well as a passepartout for when you meet up for dinner with lots of friends.

How to recognize a quality chicken?

To choose quality chicken meat, the ideal is to take a whole chicken. In fact, it is from there that we can verify that the legs are darker and have tougher skin, two characteristics that are symbolic of a healthy chicken. Furthermore, the meat of a chicken raised with respect for the animal is firm and tasty, not melting and almost flavourless. The color of the meat is natural pink, not tending towards grey, visibly healthy. In general, in any case, it is always better to ask your butcher for advice and prefer an animal raised on the ground or – better yet – outdoors and not in intensive farming.

Recipe for baked Polignano carrots with crumbled feta – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

There Polignano carrot it is cultivated in the Bari area in lands close to the sea, and therefore saline, with traditional criteria, including irrigation with brackish water. It has a variable color from yellow to purple and a particular taste savory and fresh. It also contains less sugar of common carrots.

In this recipe we offer it cooked in the oven with herbs, a preparation that is completed with toasted bread cubes, feta crumbled, chervil and ginger for an easy and light appetizer or side dish. As an alternative to Polignano carrots you can use common carrots or replace the feta with Quartirolo cheese.

Also discover these recipes: Glazed carrots, crunchy chips and green sauce, Carrots with hazelnuts and pistachio cream, Caramelized onions and baked carrots, Baked potatoes and vegetables.