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Pasta with warm rucola salad - Step by Step



The Pasta with warm rucola salad recipe can be executed in only 20 minutes. This recipe is relatively easy and therefore a good start for people who would like to start playing with the Italian kitchen. The combination of rucola salad and parmesan is a classic of the Italian kitchen. Enjoy your meal!

Recipe for 2 persons:

  • 300g Pasta
  • 10 sun dried tomatoes
  • 50g Rucola salad
  • Parmesan cheese
  • 3 tbls of Balsamico vinegar
  • Olive oil
  • Salt and Pepper


Step 1:
Wash the rucola salad under water and drain completely.



Place all the rucola salad in a bowlStep 2
Place all the rucola salad in a bowl.



Cut sun dried tomatoes in thin slices.Step 3
Cut sun dried tomatoes in thin slices.




Blend rucola salad and sun dried tomatoes well together and add balsamico vinegarStep 4
Blend rucola salad and sun dried tomatoes well together. Add 3 spoons of balsamico vinegar.



Cook pasta by following instructions written on the packetStep 5
Cook pasta by following instructions written on the packet.



Cook rucola over high heatStep 6
When pasta is cooked, remove the water from the pot. Warm up a pan over high heat, add some oil and cook the rucola salad with the sun dried tomatoes not more than a minute. Add some salt and pepper.



Serve pasta with warm rucola saladStep 7
Add pasta in the pan and blend further, then serve the pasta salad with warm rucola on plates. Top it with parmesan cheese, freshly sliced.

Bolognese sauce


This Bolognese sauce is ideal for pasta and lasagna and called oficially as the best bolognese sauce by our kids - believe me, we are proud! If your kids are not so keen on eating vegetables, just chop all ingredients finely in the sauce and solve your problems.


Ingredients:

  • 1 onion

  • 3 green celery stalks

  • 1 carrot

  • 4 garlic cloves

  • 1 red chili

  • 450g minced beef

  • 150g bacon

  • 1 bay leaf

  • 1 tea spoon oregano

  • 1 tea spoon basil

  • 1 tea spoon rosmarin

  • 1 cup of red wine or 3 table spoon of balsamico vinegar

  • 1 cup of vegetables bouillon or veal stock

  • 1 tomato can (400g)

  • 2 table spoon of tomato concentrate

  • 3 table spoon of olive oil

  • milk

  • salt

  • pepper

  • butter


Method:

Warm up olive oil on medium heat in the big pot and put the whole red chili. Take care so the skin will not get destroyed otherwise the dish can be too spicy for the small members of family.

Then add fine chopped celery and saute couple of minutes until it starts to get colour, then add fine chopped carrot and again saute until it starts to get brown. At the end, add fine chopped onion and garlic. Take care that garlic will not be burned it can give bitter taste to the sauce.

Remove all vegetables from the pan and saute fine minced bacon. When fat melts and bacon starts to be crunchy, add fine minced beef and saute everything on a high heat until meat is well browned and fall aparts.

Put heat down to the medium and add vegetables, herbs and wine. Sometimes I do not have red wine so I put balsamico - it gives very nice taste nuance to the dish! Reduce until the wine is disappeared, add meat stock and again reduce.

Then add pureed tomatoes (again we pure them because kids do not like big pieces) and the tomato concentrate and put a spoon of butter on the top. Different type of fat let different ingredients to be tasted more clear. Then cook according to your temperament: Italiens says as longer as better 5 hours is good, but hey ... we have only one life, so 1/½ hour would be a minimum. If the sauce looks to dry add some milk or stock during the process. In the end put salt and pepper according to your taste. Serve with pasta and fresh grated parmesan. Yummy ...

Tomato Soup toped with fresh basil


The recipe of tomato soup that we are proposing today, is easy, and can be realized in less than 15 minutes. Kids in general love tomato soup, but be aware that in our recipe, the chili will make the soup too strong for them, so just remove the chili if you plan a family dinner.

Recipe for 2 people:

  • 1 plum tomatoes tined + 1/3 water tined
  • 2-3 spoon of olive oil
  • 1 tea spoon oregano
  • lidt salt
  • 1/2 bouillon cube
  • lidt chili
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 2 tea spoon of cream
  • fresh basil

Chop tomatoes and cook all the ingredients but garlic and cream during 5-10 minutes. Add one clove of garlic previoulsy crushed and let the soup cook a couple of minutes more. Finally add the cream and salt to your taste. Pour the soup in a deep plate, decorate with a fresh basil leave and serve.

Pizza with Parma ham, black olives and parmesan

The secret of good Pizzas resides in the dough and the quality of the ingredients. Dont buy cheap olives, discount ham or grated Mozarella that tastes like plastic. Italian cuisine is based mostly on the taste of ingredients, so go to your Italian favorite shop and buy some real parma ham, good mozarella (Galbani f.x.), tined plum tomatoes, and marinated black olives. One good tip is to buy a piece of mozarella that you grate yourself, so the cheese is not too dry.

When I talked to my Italian friend, I was also very curious to know how they make pizza sauce in Italy. His answer was very simple; take a plum tomatoes tined and mix it with 2.5 table spoon of tomato concentrate. Wow ... so simple it could not be ... I tried and it turned out as a very good advice.

So to start with our pizzas, we will prepare the dough using our pizza crust recipe. Once the dough is ready, preheat oven at 250°. Take a tined plum tomatoes and use a mixer to make the pizza sauce. Add 2.5 table spoon of tomato concentrate.

Roll the pizza dough to make the crust and place it on a metal tray. Then cover the crust with the pizza sauce. Then add grated mozarella, Parma ham, black olives and finally grated parmesan. Place the pizza in the oven for 10 minutes. Top it with oregano and serve.

Pizza dough recipe

To realize the perfect pizza dough, you need to prepare the dough in two phases. The recipe that we are posting today is suitable for 4 medium pizzas.

1st phase:

  • 15g fresh yeast
  • 125 cl. Water
  • 150g durum flour

Disolve the yeast in the water and mix it with the durum flour until all ingredients are well mixed. Let it rest 30 minutes before starting the second phase.

2nd phase:

  • 1 tea spoon of salt
  • 4 table spoon olive oil
  • 2 table spoon of milk
  • 250 cl. water

  • 500g white flour

Mix well all ingredients together with the dough prepared during the first recipe stage and let it rest 1 hour.

Divide the dough in 4 and follow the instructions from one of our pizza recipe

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