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Minestrone soup with pesto “Minestrone Genovese”

Minestrone soup with pesto “Minestrone Genovese”

Minestrone is a classic of the Genoese cuisine. It’s an healthy dish, it can be done either in summer or in winter time. It’s up to you which vegetable to use. I will show you the classic version.

Children love this soup!

Ingredients:

150 g. lumé beans. If you don’t find this kind use another at your choice.

1 eggplant

150 g. green beans

4 potatoes

¼ of Savoy cabbage

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Eggplant and tunafish croquettes

Eggplant and tunafish croquettes

Longtime is gone since I last wrote a recipe……but now I’m back!

This recipe is a variation of the old one that my granny used to cook. The original one was just with tunafish and smashed potatoes.

As I really love eggplants I thought a good idea adding it to make it tastier and healthier and the result is marvelous.

Let’s have a try!

What you need

2 steamed potatoes

3 eggplants

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STUFFED AUBERGINES

Finally, the summer season started and with it all the tasty vegetables. Today I decided to cook aubergine stuffed with minced meat, eggplant pulp, tomato sauce and so on. Believe me it is delicious, easy to do and it’ does not take too long. It also can be served as single dish, as there are all the nutrients we need in a meal.

Important : as we cannot eat anything with milk and its…

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Fennel and grapefruit saldad with avocado dressing

Fennel and grapefruit saldad with avocado dressing

This salad is an excellent side dish. It is tasty but also very healthy, the best on the winter season. A full vitamin recharge.

Ingredients: 2 Grapefruits 1 Lemon 1 ripe avocado 1 Fennel Extra virgin oil Salt and pepper

Directions:

Wash the fennel and slice it thin.

Peel the grapefruits, also removing the inner skin in order to get bare slices.

Put everything into a nice salad…

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Mozzarella in Carrozza (fried mozzarella cheese sandwich)

Mozzarella in Carrozza (fried mozzarella cheese sandwich)

Mozzarella in carrozza is typical of Campania region, in the south of Italy, where you can find the best mozzarella!

Mozzarella in carrozza is a simple and tasty traditional Neapolitan dish that, thanks to the crunchy exterior and soft heart, conquers the first bite. Mozzarella in carrozza is a classic appetizer of Neapolitan cuisine. It was born as a recycled dish that originally included…

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PEPERONATA (pepper sauce)

This is a typical Sicilian recipe. It is a side dish but it can even be considered as a main dish. Not everybody likes peppers but for who loves, it’s suddenly love.

I recommend to prepare this dish in advance, in order to eat it once cold. It is the best way to taste it.

As it is a summer recipe, you can even prepare it in summer and freeze it to be able to eat it in the cold season.

Th…

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Pesto sauce

Ingredients:

50 g Genoese basil, which means about 2 basil bunches • 35 g Parmigiano reggiano • 10 g Sardinian Pecorino • 10 g Pinoli • 1 clove of garlic • 60 ml extra virgin olive oil • 1 pinch Sal

Preparing homemade Genoese pesto is really a great satisfaction, even without a mortar, but much faster with an immersion blender or chopper.

You can use your pesto with spaghetti, or to do…

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Tuccu, Genoese meat sauce for tagliatelle and ravioli

Tuccu, Genoese meat sauce for tagliatelle and ravioli

Ingredients:

1 kg. Beef Throat

1 piece celeri

1 carrot

1 onion

1 small rosemary branch

1 leaf laurel

Oil 30 ml

Butter 60 g.

1 glass red wine

Tomato puree 500 gr.

Cut the vegetable in small pieces, then put the butter, the oil,  the vegetable and the meat in a saucepan. 

And leave cooking until the vegetables will be well cooked. Turn the meat now and then.

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FOCACCIA

MAKES approx. 3 hours

270-290 ge. Flour W280-320

25 gr. Olive Oil

6 gr. Salt

3 gr. Malt or sugar

15 gr. Brewer’s yeast

Water

During my classes I use the brewer yeast that works quicker but this time I used my saure dough as I prefer my Focaccia done with it. Sauer dough recipe will be soon posted.

By using sauer dough , which is a…