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Squid salad recipe with lemon and rocket – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Squid salad recipe with lemon and rocket


THE totani I am clams which can be used for the preparation of various courses, from a salad enjoyed as an appetizer or main course to a second course based on Stuffed squid.

Unlike squid, squid are less valuable and cheaper and this makes them perfect, for example, for a light lunch prepared at home.

For the cooking squidour recipe suggests covering them in cold unsalted waterto boil them for 10 minutes from boiling and, once cooked, to let them cool in their broth.

To enjoy them in salads, the squid bodies should be cut into rings, while the tentacles should be chopped. Add them to the rocket, olives, lemon, season and serve!

Here is a tasty and light dish also perfect for those who are… diet!

Octopus salad and turmeric potato cream recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Octopus salad and turmeric potato cream recipe


L’octopus salad with potatoes it is a classic appetizer which however it can be varied in many ways to always bring it to the table with a different touch.

For the Christmas menuthe manager of our editorial kitchen Sara Foschiniof Neapolitan origins, with his friend Paolo Bussolino, of Apulian and Campania origins, created this recipe which revisits a traditional holiday dish with a special ingredient. The octopus and potato salad is served placed on a turmeric potato cream which makes the dish more colorful and enveloping.

Also discover these recipes: Octopus, potatoes, olives and dried tomatoes, Octopus in salad, the modern version, Octopus, bean and pomegranate salad, Octopus, chickpea, fennel and orange salad.

The salad cake is the new savory cake: the idea for Christmas – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay


Never heard of or tasted it salad cake? Ready go!

Among the Christmas appetizers, there are very few vegetables, just those of the Russian salad or the reinforcement one, and it is a real shame. Not that during dinner on Christmas Eve or lunch on the 25th you necessarily have to think about eating a healthy diet, but something fresh, crunchy and colorful completes the menu, and also helps you enjoy the other dishes better. To expand the offer of vegetable dishes to serve to guests, however, you can look beyond tradition alone. International inspirations come to the rescue (and famous pastry chefs like chef Ernst Knam) who propose the salad cakeor the salad cake.

Knam’s salad cakes

In Ernst Knam’s Christmas 2023 catalogue, they stand out among the savory proposals of the well-known Milanese pastry chef, right among chocolates and gastronomic panettones. «To make them the same techniques as sweet cakes are used but with savory ingredients. They can be served as appetizers or even as second courses”, and so there it is Catalan, a savory shortcrust pastry flavored with lemon, soft cream of spreadable cheese, octopus, semi-candied celery, fresh cherry tomatoes and confit cherry tomatoes, all decorated with 24k gold sheetsor theExotic with wasabi sponge cake, wasabi spread, dill marinated salmon and salmon roe. Knam bakes savory pies that are filled with fresh ingredients, to be served at room temperature, as unusual substitute for canapés. The idea, however, admits the chef, comes from afar. «Salad Cakes were born about 10 years ago in Japan.

FRANCESCO MION

Salad Cake, from Japan with fury

The idea came to the food stylist precisely in 2015 Mitsuki Moriyasu in his café, Bejidekosarada, in Nagoya, Japan, where he substituted cakes laden with icing and sugar for a new one savory pastries. Its VegedecoSalad® are completely vegetable, based on a sponge cake of soy and rice flour, tofu and raw vegetables, “glazed” with spreadable vegetable cheese, to be cut into wedges and eaten with a fork. A simple idea but with great visual impact that had given her great notoriety. The success was such that the young chef even ended up on CNN, making the phenomenon global. Salad Cakes had become a global phenomenon.

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