Al Vecchio Lotto
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Here are some recipes recommended from our chef Violetta
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Baked anchovies
Ingredients: 800g of anchovies, 4 cloves of garlic,
oil, salt, vinegar and oregano.
Preparation: clean and remove the bones, then wash
and put them in a oiled baking-pan. Flavour it with minced
garlic, salt, vinegar, oregano and oil again. Cook it at high
flame and serve them hot or cold.
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Squids and artichokes
Ingredients: 800g of squids, 4 artichokes, 1 clove
of garlic, extra vergine olive oil, salt and pepper.
Preparation: start from removing the squids mouth,
eyes, the ink bag and the little bone. Rinse them abundantly
with water. Remove the tentacles from the bag and slice them
in stripes. Fry slightly the garlin and a little of oil in
a pan, let the garlic became gilt, remove it add the sliced
squids and then flavour it with salt and pepper. Let it cook
with a little of warm water. Keep the flame moderate and let
it cook with the cover. In the meantime clean the artichokes,
slice them, cook it with some oil and flavour it with salt
and pepper. When the artichokes are almost cooked add them
to the squids, let them flavour for some minutes, amalgamate
everything well and serve it.
An advice: when you clean the artichokes
remove the outer and hard leaves and the internal beard.
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Lasagna napoletana
Ingredients: 600-700g of pasta for lasagna, 450g of
meatballs, 500g of ricotta, 450g of mozzarella di bufala,
abundant meat sauce, 250g of pecorino and parmigiano, black
pepper and some sausages.
Preparation: boil the pasta, dry it, flavour it with
the two cheeses, salt and pepper. Fry the meatballs, slice
the mozzarella in little cubes and mix the ricotta with a
part of the meat sauce. Pour the meat sauce in a oiled pan,
put on a layer of pasta in the bottom and on the sides. Now
put on the meat sauce with the ricotta, the mozzarella, the
meatballs, the sliced sausages, a little of parmigiano, a
little of pepper and some meat sauce. Repeat the layer until
the pan is full. Cover the all with a last layer formed by
pasta, meat sauce and some parmigiano. Cook it until the lasagna
will be compact and the last layer gilt. Wait for it to cool
not much and serve.
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Potatoes Gatò
Ingredients: 1 kg of potatoes, 80g of butter, 3 egg
yolks, 2 egg whites, 80g of salami, 100g of parmigiano, 250g
of provola and mozzarella, salt, pepper, breadcrumb, lard
and parsley.
Preparation: boil the potatoes, remove the pod and
pass them to the sieve. Add the butter, the parmigiano, the
egg yolks, the egg whites, the minced salami, the parsley,
salt and pepper. Mix well the everything. Grease a pan with
the lard, sprink it with the breadcrumb and put between two
layers of potatoes the minced mozzarella and the provola.
Helping with the wooden ladle line the surface. Put in the
oven and remove it when the surface is gilt. The "Gattò"
should be served warm/cold.
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Friarielli (broccolis)
Ingredients: 750g of friarielli (broccolis), 3 cloves
of garlic, salt, oil and hot pepper.
Preparation: wash and dry the friarielli. After making
them boil at half cooking, drain and squeeze them. Fry slightly
some garlic and add the friarielli leaving them to flavour
with some salt and hot pepper.
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Pastiera napoletana (pie)
Ingredients: 500g of flour, 3 eggs, 200g of sugar,
200g of lard. For the filling: 420g of wheat, 100g of milk,
30g of butter, 700g of fresh ricotta, 500g of sugar, 1 bag
of vanilla, 5 egg and 2 egg yolks, 1 spoon of orange flowers
water and lemon.
Preparation: put to cook in a casserole the wheat adding
the milk, the butter and the grated rind of a lemon. Warm
for 10 minutes mixing until becomes like a cream. Mix separately
the ricotta with the sugar, the eggs, the egg yolks, the bag
of vanilla and the orange flowers water. Mingle it until the
mixture becomes very thin. Add a little of grated rind of
a lemon. Prepare a short pastry with the flour, the eggs,
the sugar and the wheat. Make a mixture without mingle it
much. Let the mixture rest for half an hour, then stretch
and cover one or many fit for cake with the mixture and add
the ricotta. Decorate the pie with the short pastry made like
stripes. Put the pie into the oven and let it for one hour
until the pie has an amber color. Turn over the oven, wait
for some minutes and then sprink the pie with icing sugar.
The pie is still good after 2-3 days
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