Showing posts with label ricetta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ricetta. Show all posts

Monday, February 2, 2015

Pappardelle with Wild Boar Ragu - (Pappardelle al Ragu Di Cinghiale)

This recipe has many names, but outside of Italy it is mainly called "bolognese". In fact, this is beef stew with tomatoes, meat can be different, except white (chicken etc). I love pasta with ragu of wild boar or deer, but, unfortunately, this meat is difficult to find in our region, you can find it mainly in the north or in mountainous regions of Italy. But I like it so much! So we went to the Metro (METRO Cash & Carry is an international self-service wholesaler. It operates across Europe and in some countries of Asia and Northern Africa) and bought wild boar meat.


In this recipe you can use any wild meat  - boar, roe, deer, venison... Also beef or other red meat - in this case you don-t need to marinate the meat or leave it in marinade only for few hours

You will need for 6 servings

  • 500g - pappardelle pasta 
  • 500g - wild boar meat
  • a piece of celery
  • 1 carrot 
  • one large or 2 medium onions
  • a few cloves of garlic
  • juniper berries
  • sage
  • rosemary
  • thyme
  •  1 clove
  • red wine, about 300ml, do not buy cheap wine. Talk with a shop assistant at the store  and ask an advice.
  • 250-400gr - passata (italian tomatoes sauce)  more for more sauce or less for less quantity of sauce.
  • olive oil
  • salt and pepper


First you need to marinate the meat for at least 12 hours, better more, it refers to any wild meat. Cut the meat into large pieces, heat the wine. So leave the meat to marinate overnight in a non-reactive bowl in red wine with spices, salt and vegetables, cut into pieces (celery, onion, carrot, garlic). Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave overnight. Turn meat several times if you can, and the wine should cover almost all the meat.

In the morning transfer the wild boar to paper towels to drain - then or make forcemeat or cut into small pieces.

Take fresh vegetables, all the same as before - do not take out of the marinade, because they have absorbed the taste wild meat. Finely chop them by knife or in blender. Heat the olive oil in a heavy pot. Stew vegetables over medium heat, first the onion and garlic, then add the carrots and celery. Add the meat and stew, stirring constantly, over high heat for a few minutes. Stew until the meat is no longer has the marinade. If your piece of meat was absolutely no fat, you can add a bit of bacon.

Now put passata in the meat, reduce the heat and let stew under the lid for about 2 hours, perhaps even more. Minced meat cook more quickly. Add a little water if required. At the end taste for the salt and put a little if need. Yes you need to put salt only on this stage. Little, if needed. The passata will shrink and if you put the salt before you risk to have your stew very salty at the end.The meat is ready when it has become tender and easy to chew, you can crush with a fork. Bolognese is ready, it can be frozen for later)) By the way, if desired, you can add a bit of red pepper.

When the meat is ready, put the water for the pasta. Cook pasta as written on the package, or better yet, "al dente", as the Italians say, - slightly undercooked. Mix in a stew with pasta in pot, cover it and leave for 1 minute. By the way, very tasty with whole-wheat pasta!

Do not eat nothing before this pasta - maybe something very light, slightly set off the taste of pasta and wine.

Well, time to eat)) By the way,  warm up the plate! otherwice the meat is quickly cooled.

You can sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, but I like without it)


Monday, September 29, 2014

Pasta with asparagus and speck

This is extremely tasty and easy to prepare recipe. I have to say, this recipe is not for the diet)) 


So, you'll need 

80-90 grams of pasta for one person (I took 180 grams of whole wheat pasta)
200g of asparagus 
100g italian speck (I took it thin sliced​​, but it is more convenient to take one thick slice, then you can sliver it) 
25-50 grams of cheese Grana Padano or Parmigiano 
small onion 
olive oil, salt, pepper 

So, put on fire two pots of water - one for pasta, one for asparagus. Clean and cut Asparagus, then boil it for 5 minutes about. Do not forget to salt thw water slightly. 

While the asparagus is boiling, chop the onion finely and fry till it became golden brown in olive oil. Then add about half or two thirds of asparagus from the pan. Fry is about 5 minutes. 

If you have purchased already grated cheese, it's good) I bought a piece and ground it in a blender. 

Add the asparagus with onions from the frying pan in the blender and a bit of water from the pan with asparagus and make the cream. 

Can be done, by the way, on the contrary - first boil a whole asparagus, then slice it. In this case, in the blender you will put thicker and stiffer bases and we leave gentle tops for second part of the sauce) 


Fry the speck. 

Speck can, of course, be replaced with the bacon, but it will probably be even more difficult to digest and heavy dish, because the bacon is more fat. It is possible in this case to drain oil from the frying pan abter frying the bacon. 


Now add the rest of the asparagus to the speck in the frying pan and fry a little

Put the sauce from the blender into the pan and mix everything. 

Cook pasta as it is written on the packaging. But of course we are preparing like all italians, "al dente" - that is when it gets stuck in the teeth a little. 

So, when the pasta is ready, "al dente", drain it and mix it with the sauce. Turn the fire off, leave for a minute and serve on a plate.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Lentil soup recipe


Lentil soup is fast, filling, nutritious and thrifty. Lentils are inexpensive and packed with fiber and protein. This recipe is great for people who decided to keep the fast.

You will need:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, chopped finely
3 garlic cloves, minced
2-3 tomatoes
1 carrot
2-3 potatoes
½ cup of cream (facoltative)
2 cup of red lentils
Salt
1-1.5 l vegetable broth or water
fresh and dry mint

Peel potatoes, cut into medium pieces and put into a pan. Peel the carrot and chop it. In other pan fry chopped onion, carrot and garlic. When potatoes are half cooked add fried vegetables and tomatoes in pan. Put lentils and salt. Boil until soup is cooked. Put the mint and if you want put the cream. Pass the soup in blender.
Put in the plate and decorate with fresh mint.
Buon Appetito!

 

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