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The Traditional Cuisine of Puglia
Apulia’s 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.
Recipes from Puglia
Potatoes
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

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.
Aubergines
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)
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.
Shrimps
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
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.
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