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

Recipe Recipe: prawns in spiced salt


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.

Guinea fowl tortelli with spiced butter and pomegranate – Italian Cuisine

Guinea fowl tortelli with spiced butter and pomegranate


1) Arrange the flour, add the eggs, a pinch of salt and start to work the dough; when it will be smooth and elastic divide it in 4 loaves, wrap them up in plastic wrap and let them rest.

2) Chop shallots e brown them in a saucepan with the chopped bacon and 6 tablespoons of oil; take them off and keep them aside. In the same pot browned the pieces of guinea fowl until they are golden. Wet with the Cognac, flame it, add the prepared sauce, the bay leaf, the cloves and the juniper; salt, pepper and sprinkle with half of the wine.

3) Cover the pot, lowered the flame and cook for about 45 ', adding the remaining wine from time to time. At the end of cooking uncovered and, if the bottom is too liquid, let it shrink (it must be syrupy). Eliminate bay leaf and let it cool. Remove the skin from the guinea fowl pieces and bone them. Blend 2 thirds of the pulp with 2 thirds of its cooking juices and 2-3 tablespoons of Marsala; salt, pepper and transfer to a pastry bag.

4) Roll out the pasta in long thin sheets with the machine (penultimate notch) e obtained discs with a 7.5 cm pastry cutter. Squeeze yourself the filling and fold them into a crescent; wrap them up around the index finger, weld the 2 tips, fold them and form the tortelli. Let them dry on a surface sprinkled with semolina.

5) Frayed the remaining pieces of guinea fowl, put them back in the pan with the remaining butter and the sauce and Marsala and heat them. Boil the tortelli al dente and drain directly into the pan with the sauce. Transfer them on a serving dish and garnish with pomegranate grains.

Kumquat cheese cake with spiced biscuits – Italian Cuisine

Kumquat cheese cake with spiced biscuits


1) Crumble finely the 2 types of biscuits (you can do it in the mixer or by crushing them with a rolling pin).

2) Do to melt the butter and add it to the chopped biscuits together with a pinch of salt: mix well.

3) Transfer the mixture into crumbs in a 24 cm diameter hinged pan with the bottom covered with baking paper. Arrange them in a compact layer that covers the bottom and edge, crushing gently with the back of a spoon or spatula. Put in the freezer for 10-15 minutes.

4) Wash the kumquats and chop half of them rather finely with a knife.

5) In a bowl you work cheeses with cream, 100 g of brown sugar, honey and eggs, then add the chopped kumquats.

6) Pour the mixture in the base of the cake, leveling it with the back of the spoon, then cook in the oven preheated to 160 ° for 40 minutes. Let the cake cool before turning it out.

7) Meanwhile prepared a syrup with the remaining sugar, 100 ml of water, a few sprigs of rosemary and a few sage leaves: cook yourself the remaining kumquats for about 20 minutes.

8) Leave them cool down in the syrup, then drain them on a wire rack. Decorate the cake with half kumquats in syrup, a few leaves of sage and small rosemary flowers.

curated by Marina Cella, recipes by Livia Sala, photos by Michele Tabozzi, styling by Sara Farina

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Posted on 02/12/2021

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