Tag: seasoning

12 ideas for seasoning pasta – Italian Cuisine

These shellfish are perfect for creating the dressing for a first summer dish: try to bring them to the table with these recipes!

Shrimp or prawn it's a matter of centimeters: the latter, as the name suggests, are smaller. Fleshy, tasty but in a delicate way, quick to clean and cook, are both ideal for preparing a summer seasoning for pasta. Here you find some useful information to choose them, instead here what are their nutritional values and their properties.

The format is free

You just have to cook them! Such as? For the pasta shape you can indulge yourself: it's okay long (spaghetti, tagliatelle, linguine), which short (pens, butterflies, paccheri). And just a white pasta seasoned with a little oil, some shrimp, an aromatic herb and a splash of lemon to bring a complete and tasty dish to the table.

pasta-with-shrimp

Seasoning ideas

If instead you have time to enrich the preparation, browse the gallery and you will find many recipes to inspire you: combine rocket, artichokes, aubergines, make a vegetable or pistachio pesto, add a tomato sauce or fresh cherry tomatoes, use the prawns also raw, marinated, or combine them with another type of fish such as hake.

Our recipes

Wholemeal spaghetti with prawns and rocket; Shrimp Farfalle; Tagliatelle with shrimp sauce; Shrimp and artichoke tagliatelle; Shrimp paccheri; Penne with hake and shrimp; Pennone and shrimp with vegetable pesto; Shrimp, tomato and coffee pasta; Linguine with two creams and marinated prawns; Maltagliati with prawns; Eggplant spaghettoni with prawns and tomatoes; Paccheri with pistachio and prawn pesto.

from poor seasoning to gourmet ingredient – Italian Cuisine

With the ink of this mollusk you can season the linguine, but not only: use it to cook the cuttlefish themselves or to color the dough of bread and pizza

There Pasta Al Nero Di Seppia born as a poor dish of fishermen: today, instead, it is a gourmet recipe.
Preparing it is very simple, but you must first learn to clean the cuttlefish.

How to clean cuttlefish

First wash them very well and then incise the belly for eliminate the central bone.
extract the bag with black and put it in a bowl covered with damp kitchen paper because black dries quickly.
Eliminate the outer skin of the cuttlefish, the most viscous one, which comes off simply by pulling it and then passing to the head.
Eliminate head and eyes of the cuttlefish and extract the hard inner part.
Cut everything else, including the tentacles into strips.

The recipe of pasta with squid ink

Once the cuttlefish has been cleaned and cut cook it in the pan with oil and garlic, add the white wine.
Add the bags of black ink breaking them gently to make it come out and stir until the cuttlefish is well seasoned.
Season the drained pasta al dente, usually long pasta linguine or bavette, and sprinkle everything with fresh chopped parsley.

If I can't clean cuttlefish?

You can ask the fishmongers of the already clean cuttlefish and black to partand or you can buy the cuttlefish ink in glass packages but obviously, needless to say, you don't know the same thing because the freshness of the ingredients is the main ingredient in this dish.

Cuttlefish in black

Another very simple, inexpensive and easy to prepare dish is the cuttlefish in black, a typical Venetian recipe.
That's enough cook the cuttlefish with their own black, a clove of garlic and the tomato puree and you will get a second of tasty and tasty fish to accompany with slices of toasted bread or, as usual, with polenta.
Cuttlefish in black can also be excellent seasoning for pasta and an alternative to the classic black squid pasta recipe for those who can never give up tomato.

Find out in the gallery for what you can use sepia black

Lots of ideas for seasoning vegetables in the summer – Italian Cuisine

When oil and salt no longer satisfy you, try seasoning salads and vegetables with the dressing. Here are the best ones for the summer

This is the season of salads and huge ones portions of steamed vegetables, partly because you have less appetite, partly because you want to eat only healthy and light foods.
At least on condiments we can indulge ourselves a little, though, so if you want to add a touch of taste to your vegetables, prepare some fresh and fragrant dressing.
Here are some ideas for you.

Season with the vinaigrette

Not really a sauce, but rather an emulsion that does not replace the classic seasoning with oil, salt and vinegar, but turns it into one.
To prepare the vinaigrette, it is enough to quickly mix all the ingredients of the classic seasoning to create a fairly uniform emulsion. You can replace wine vinegar with apple vinegar or even with lemon juice or other citrus fruits.

Yogurt Dressing

Fresh and with a slightly acidulous taste, especially on steamed vegetables. It is prepared simply by mixing it low-fat yogurt with oil, salt and lemon juice. You can then enrich it with herbs like mint, parsley, basil or fennel or even with a clove of garlic and grated cucumbers to turn it into Greek tzatziki.

Bulgarian sauce

A less light variant of yogurt sauce is the Bulgarian sauce which includes the addition of chopped mint with a knife, a clove of crushed garlic and walnut kernels. Very tasty, not too light, perfect on cooked vegetables.

Vegan mayonnaise

An excellent alternative to the classic egg and oil based sauce that is very good with vegetables, especially if battered and fried. It is prepared by blending with an immersion blender the soy vegetable milk (100 ml) with dellseed oil poured flush (about 130 ml). In order to enrich it with taste and color, eventually they are added a tablespoon of mustard and lemon juice.

tapenade

A very tasty sauce made from black olives. Prepare it by blending the olives with delloregano, wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. Excellent on vegetables, but also on croutons.

Honey sauce

If you like that slightly bittersweet touch on vegetables, try this dressing based on balsamic vinegar and honey. The proportion is a part of honey for three of balsamic vinegar. Then adjust with salt and pepper.

Soy sauce

A condiment similar to the previous one that will appeal to lovers of ethnic flavors is the one based on soy sauce. Enrich it with a teaspoon of honey and a bit of sesame oil and use this sauce to dress a salad with fresh sprouts.

Special green sauce

The classic recipe of green sauce includes parsley, but we offer it with a mix of aromatic herbs to make it even more fragrant. Use of sesame seed oil for an even more aromatic aftertaste.