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In this category you find the traditional recipes of Puglia. From the classic ‘orecchiette con le cime di rapa’ (orecchiette pasta with rapini) to the pasticciotto, typical of the area of Lecce. From ‘panzerotti’ to sgagliozze (fried polenta). Simple ingredients, as they were used by our ‘nonnas’, and flavours that remind of home.
Serves 4 1,5 kg mussels 1 kg clams 10 cherry tomatoes 1 garlic clove Italian parsley Oregano Evo oil Pepper Soften the garlic in the oil. Add the mussels and clams after thoroughly cleaning them. Season with pepper, oregano, parsley and tomatoes. Cover and cook for about ten minutes until all the shells have opened. ...
Ingredients (serves 4) 1 kg honey 500 g sugar 5 eggs whites 1 kg almonds vanilla flavour or lemon zest wafer Put in a casserole 1 kg of honey and sugar and leave them to melt slowly, taking care to stir continously. When the lot becomoes fluid add 5 egg whites beaten stiff, then 1 kg of peeled and toasted almonds, a pinch of vanilla or of grated lemon. Continue stirring...
Ingredients (4 servings) 500 g (3 cups) almonds a dozen bitter almonds 4 eggs 200 g sugar 2 tbsps Strega liqueur cherry jam 1 lemon zest, grated Peel and roast the almonds, then crush on a hard surface with a glass bottle. Add the sugar, lemon zest, liqueur and whole eggs, and mix to form a solid dough. With your hands squash and stretch the dough on a pastry board...
Ingredients (2 servings) 2 gilt-head breams 500 ml dry white wine 50 g raisins 2 potatoes parsley 2 bay leaves 1 garlic clove 1 red onion evo oil, salt and pepper Clean and wash the gilt-head breams. Place them in a oven pan covering them with white wine, rasins, parsley leaves, bay leaves, chopped garlic clove, sliced onion, oil, salt and pepper. Leave to rest for...
Ingredients (4 servings) 4 eggplants 50 g black olives capers pecorino cheese, grated mint leaves basil salt pepper evo oil Cut the eggplants into halves lenghtwise and keep them in water and salt for 30 minutes. Dry them and with a knife cut the flesh into many little squares taking care not to detache them completely. Separately blend together 50 g of finely chopped...
