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Risotto with prawns, pistachios and citrus

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Risotto with prawns, pistachios and citrus

Risotto with prawns, pistachios and citrus

I am very attached to the tastes and fragrances of Sicily.
Do you like this recipe?

Ingredients for 4 people:

360 g acquarello rice

200 g shelled shrimp tails red

1/2 onion

fish stock enough

Extra virgin olive oil

1 orange untreated

1 untreated lemon

1 lime

25 roasted and peeled pistachios

Bisque

Method:

Chop the onion and brown it.

In another pan toast the rice.

Start cooking adding boiling broth.

Add the previously browned onion.

Towards the end of cooking add the shellfish bisque and half of the chopped prawns.

Divide the remaining chopped shrimps on 4 sheets of wax paper and with the help of a steel disc, forming round tartars 1/2 cm thick.

Stir in olive oil.

Divide n 4 plates.

Complete with the tartare and a little bit of chopped pistachios

Busiate – One of Sicily’s most popular dishes

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Sicily being the center of the Mediterranean has culinary traditions that blend different cultures and make it a tourist destination, not only for the sea, the temples and history but also for its gastronomic specialties.

Busiate – One of Sicily’s most popular dishes

We know all the rice croquettes, cannoli, cous cous, caponata, cassata, … but perhaps not many know busiate.
Busiate are a typical pasta from the Trapani area prepared with a dough made from durum wheat flour and water.
We “condiamo” here as we were taught in Trapani, in fact … with Pesto Trapanese.

busiate trapanesi

Busiate – One of Sicily’s most popular dishes

Ingredients Pre 4 persons:

400 g of busiate
2 cloves of garlic Nubia
150 g red tomatoes firm
50 g almonds
50 g basil
extra virgin olive oil
salt

Wash and blanch the tomatoes for 15 seconds. Cool in ice water and peel them. Remove seeds.
Put the almonds, garlic, basil and salt in a mortar marble. Crush all the ingredients until you get a cream. add a little ‘oil and the tomatoes and crush them.
Cook busiate in salted water. Drain and dress with the pesto, without heating.
Divide among 4 plates.

Spaghetti with vegetables and tofu cream

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We continue today with a healthy recipe, great for vegans: Spaghetti with vegetables and tofu cream.

spaghetti crema di tofu

Ingredients for 4 people:

320 g spaghetti

350 g mixed vegetables carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, celery, peppers ….

190 g tofu NaturaNuova

20 g golden sesame

extra virgin olive oil

30 g tahini (sesame cream)

salt

Clean and wash the vegetables. Cut into fantasy, but on a regular basis.

In a cylindrical container, put the tofu, tahini, 20 ml extra virgin olive oil and blend with the blender adding a little ‘of water to obtain a creamy density.

Cook the pasta in salted water and 4 minutes before draining dip the vegetables in the same pot.

Drain and divide among 4 plates. Drizzle with sauce and tofu.

Anchovies Pasta Onion and Bread

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My refrigerator is always empty. I go food shopping day by day, so I decide at the time what I want to eat.

Today I was late …. What I found in the home is:

1/4 onion
2 anchovies in a jar Nostromo
a touch of brown bread dry
a clove of garlic
extra virgin olive oil of my friend Jimmy (what I do not miss ever)
paccheri

This is the result … lunch more than satisfactory!
paccheri acciughe

If you also find yourself in my situation you can proceed as follows:

bring to boil water for cooking pasta. Salt the water and pour the paccheri. In a frying pan put a little ‘oil, a clove of garlic and onion cut into thin strips. Sauté over low heat, add the anchovies dissolve and crushing them on the bottom of the pan. Add the coarsely grated dry wholemeal bread and make toast slightly. Add a little ‘cooking water and stir well, then let it dry again so that the mixture is Shell. Remove most of the seasoning obtained and set aside. When the pasta is cooked, drain and toss in pan by adding cooking water and extra virgin olive oil.

Serve and sprinkle the topping that had been put aside.