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The Traditional Cuisine of Puglia
Apulias soil is very fruitful and the sea
rich of optimal products that are the wealth of the cuisine of the
place. A pair of easy prescriptions for you that you can cook also
in your house. A great agrarian development in the organic cultivations
is one prerogative of this magnificent region.
More than 5000 organic farms together with the 7000 organic farmers
in Sicily, put Italy in the first place in Europe in this productivity.
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Recipes from Puglia
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I Frittelli di patate - Potato Pizza
1 garlic clove
Extra virgin olive oil
Fresh and peeled tomatoes
Salt
Potatoes
Handful of flour
Chopped fresh basil
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Fry
a clove of garlic until it turns to a golden brown color.
Add the pieces of the skinned tomatoes, salt enough and cook for 30
minutes.
Boil half a kilo of potatoes in salty water. Once soft, skin them
and mash them into a paste with the flour. Add more salt if needed.
Form the potato mixture into rough disc shapes around 10cm in diameter.
Pinch the edge of the shapes to form a border.
Deep fry the discs in more olive oil.
Drain of the excess olive oil and arrange on a serving try or plate.
Fill each with the tomato sauce prepared earlier and finish with a
touch of basil , bitter olives and some anchovies. |
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Melanzane al forno - Baked Aubergines
2 large aubergines
2 eggs
2 tablespoons of grated pecorino cheese
Stale bread
Glass of white wine
Olive oil
Garlic
Salt
Peeled fresh tomatoes
Basil ( if you wish you can add minced beef meat)
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Cut
the aubergines in half and scoop out the centre. Cut in small cubes
the inner white part and fry it in olive oil and galic with some white
wine and salt. When reduced this part add some grated pecorino cheese,
2 eggs, the stale bread ( before softened in salted water and squeezed
well) , and let this mixture to reduce.
Prepare a quick tomatoes sauce with galic and olive oil.
Put the aubergine skin in hot salted water and fill them with the
mixuture and cover it with the tomato sauce. Cook in oven at 180°
for 20 minutes. |
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Linguine Red Shrimp and Pumpkin Flowers
Linguine
Red Shrimps
Garlic
Olive oil extra virgin
Cubes of cut tomatoes
Parsley
One glass of white wine
Parsley
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The sauce is
made with red shrimps, pumpkin flowers cut into thin slices, garlic
and tomatoes cut cubes in extra virgin oil with garlic, a glass of
wine. Allow to evaporate the wine.
Cook the linguine in hot salted water, ( very few minutes as you can
read on the box instruction).
When quite ready, drain the water and put the linguinein the large
fry pan where you have cooked the sauce, stir well and add the fresh
parsley at the end. |