Ingredients: 1-2 eggplants (aubergines) 2 cloves garlic 4-5 ripe tomatoes fresh basil leaves olive oil salt pasta cooked al dente Method: Rinse the eggplants. Cut off the ends and dice (unpeeled). Salt generously to help draw the bitter liquid out. Place in a sieve, over a pot. Cover with a plate and a weight. [...]
Ingredients: 4-5 large, ripe tomatoes 1-2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 200 g salmon 200 g shrimp tails, shelled 4-6 large scampi olive oil rosemary salt lemon pepper ½ dl red wine spaghetti Method: Bring 1 l water to a boil. To peel the tomatoes, hull the stems and slice a shallow X in the [...]
Ingredients: 1 small onion 2 cloves garlic 400 g champignons 1 dl white wine 200 g cottage cow milk cheese 2 dl cooking cream (crème fraîche) chopped parsley leaves 1 tbsp butter + 1 tbsp oil salt and pepper broad, flat pasta noodles (pappardelle) Method: Sauté the chopped onion in oil. Stir in [...]
Ingredients: 100 g shrimp 150 g calamari 100 g cod filet 500 g short-grain rice 1 onion 2-3 cloves garlic 1 fresh red capsicum ½ cup corn 1 dl white wine ½ cup tomato sauce (or diced canned tomatoes) 1 l stock (fish or vegetable) 1 teaspoon saffron salt and white pepper parsley leaves olive [...]
Simple perfection Ingredients: 1 cup long-grain rice 1 cup wild rocket leaves 1 cup pomegranate seeds Unlike most other risotto recipes, this one calls for a variety of rice that will not become sticky (like medium- and short-grained rice), but rather remain crunchy like pomegranate seeds. Method: Boil the rice in salted water. [...]
Ingredients: 1 ½ cup sushi rice (short grain) 3 cups water 3 tbsp rice vinegar 1 ½ tbsp sugar 1 ½ teaspoon salt 4 nori sheets For the filling: smoked salmon a cucumber a carrot an avocado scampi tails wasabi paste soy sauce pickled ginger Method: Wash the rice well under running water. Place [...]
Ingredients: 200 g fresh salmon 2 sprigs rosemary 1 sprig sage 1 leek 15 broccoli florets 1 tbsp starch 2 tbsp prošek dessert wine 2 tbsp soya sauce 1 ½ dl stock 2 tbsp oyster sauce 1 tbsp sesame oil boiled rice Method: Slice the salmon thinly. Place small pieces of paper and the [...]
Ingredients: 1 onion 2 cloves garlic 120 g sun-dried tomatoes 1 tbsp sugar 2 tbsp aceto balsamico (balsamic vinegar) 300 ml passata (puréed tomatoes) lemon pepper (search Ciao Karmela for recipe) 1-2 tbsp olive oil 500 g gnocchi (search Ciao Karmela for recipe) Method: Chop the onion and the garlic. Dice the sun-dried tomatoes. [...]
A warm starter known in Italian as “suppli al telefono”. A telephone, the old one with a spiral cord connecting the handset to the hook, made its way into this recipe because the cheese from the centre of the rice balls, when cut in two, stretches just like the phone cord. More than that, this [...]
Ingredients: 300 g cherry tomatoes 2 cloves garlic 250 g canned tuna, chopped, drained ½ dl olive oil 400 g spaghetti salt lemon pepper (search Ciao Karmela for recipe) parmesan cheese Method: Cook the spaghetti in salted water until al dente. Wash and halve the tomatoes. Finely chop the garlic. Heat 2 tbsp oil [...]
