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 FRIED
MARROW FLOWERS
Ingredients for 4-6 people: 20 marrow flowers, flour
gr.200, 4 eggs, extra virgin olive oil, salt.
Preparation and cooking time: 45 minutes.
Preparation
Wash the flowers and cut the peduncle. Prepare a batter in a small bowl
mixing flour, eggs, a pinch of salt. Dip the flowers in this batter then fry
them in hot oil.
POTATO
SALAD
Ingredients for 4 people: 6 potatoes, 6 tomatoes, 1 small
onion, 2 spoons of black olives, oregano, radishes, peppers, vinegar, extra
virgin olive oil, salt.
Preparation and cooking time: 30 minutes.
Preparation
Boil the potatoes, peel them, to cut them into pieces, add tomatoes,
onion, radishes, peppers in slices. Add the black olives and to season with
oil, vinegar, salt.
"PANZEROTTI"
OF POTATOES
Ingredients for 6-8 people: Kg.1 of potatoes, flour gr.100,
gr.150 of grated cheese, gr.300 of bread crumbles, 4 eggs, parsley, pepper,
extra virgin olive oil, salt.
Preparation and cooking time: 1 hour.
Preparation
Boil the potatoes, peel them and mash them. Knead the mashed potatoes
with cheese, flour, eggs, half the bread crumbles, minced parsley, a
sprinkling of pepper and salt. Take a handful of this mixture and shape some
croquettes. Pass them in the read crumbles then in hot oil.
"PITTA"
OF POTATOES
Ingredients for 6-8 people: kg.2 of potatoes, 3 eggs, dl.2
of béchamel, gr.70 of grated pecorino cheese, extra virgin olive oil,
pepper, salt.
For stuffing: 8 onions, 3 eggs, 1 clove of garlic, 2 spoons
of sugar, 1 pinch of oregano, 1 spoon of capers, 6 peeled tomatoes, 2 spoons
of green olives.
Preparation and cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.
Preparation
Boil the potatoes, peel
them and mash them. Knead the mashed potatoes with béchamel, pecorino
cheese, eggs, a pinch of salt, a sparkling of pepper. Put 2/3 of the mixture
in a baking pan covered with tinfoil. Since the mixture is still very soft
take only a handful at the time, with a wet hand. Boil the onions and pass
them in the vegetable mill. Brown together a clove of garlic, the mashed
potatoes, peeled tomatoes, two spoons of sugar, oregano, and salt and then
cook for 15-20 minutes. Pour this mixture in the baking pan on the potatoes.
Add the boiled eggs in slices, capers and stone olives. Cover with the rest
of the potatoes and bake at 180° for half an hour.
"PITTULE"
Ingredients for 8-10 people: flour kg.1, 1 cube of brewer’s
yeast, lukewarm water, extra virgin olive oil, salt.
Preparation and cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.
Preparation
Knead in a big bowl the flour and the yeast melted in the water. Knead
for long until the dough is soft and well blended. Put a napkin on the bowl
and leave it to stand for 2-3 hours in a warm place. Take a large frying pan
with abundant oil, wait until you see the steam, then take a spoon of the
mixture and dip it in the oil. Fry about ten pittule at the time. They are
cooked when they come to the surface and look golden brown.
OTHER VERSIONS OF
THE RECIPE:
PIZZA
"PITTULE"
Ingredients: 1 onion, gr.200 of marrow, gr.100 of ripe
tomatoes, 2 spoons of stone black olives, 1
spoon of capers, 4 salted anchovies.
Preparation
Put in a bowl the minced onion, pieces of ripe tomatoes, the marrows in
small pieces, salt and leave to marinate for two hours. When the dough for
the pittule is ready, add the vegetables, the olives, the capers and the
anchovies.
CAULIFLOWER
"PITTULE"
Ingredients: gr.700 of cauliflower.
Preparation
Choose some cauliflower tops and blanch them in salted water. Add them to
the pittule and fry them.
DRIED COD
"PITTULE"
Ingredients: 1/2 kg. of dried cod.
Preparation
Soak the cod for a couple of hours, crumble it and add it to the
dough and fry.
TURNIP "PITTULE"
Ingredients:1 kg of turnips.
Preparation
Choose some of the broccolis of the turnips and blanch them in abundant
salted water. Add them to the dough and fry the mixture.
ANCHOVIES
"PITTULE"
Ingredients: 10 anchovies.
Preparation
Remove the salt from the anchovies, wash them and cut them into small
pieces. Add those to the dough and fry this mixture.
SWEET
"PITTULE"
Ingredients: 4-5 spoons raisin.
Preparation
Soak the raisin in lukewarm water, add them to dough and fry the mixture.
ARTICHOKES
AND EGGS
Ingredients for 5-7 people: artichokes, pepper, extra
virgin olive oil, salt, eggs parsley, onion.
Preparation and cooking time: about 1 hour.
Preparation
Put in a saucepan the clean artichokes, minced parsley, salt, oil,
pepper. Fill with water and cook on a low flame. Just before the end,
add the eggs (you can also whip them). Cook for another couple of
minutes.
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