Tortei recipe potato or potato cake

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Ingredients :
eight medium sized potatoes,
three tablespoons of flour,
lard,
oil,
salt

How to prepare your tortei recipe potato :

choose well-seasoned potatoes, peel and grate with a cheese grater.
Add the flour and a pinch of salt and mix evenly. pour the mixture, thus prepared, in a baking pan greased with lard or abundant oil and put in warm oven (about 200 degrees celsius) and cook until it is formed on the surface a beautiful golden crust and crunchy.
Instead of potato cake, you can prepare very good and quick tortei, forming with the same mixture of small crushed by frying in deep fat.

Drunken Spaghetti

Wednesday, January 20, 2010


Another quick recipe the we call '' Drunken Spaghetti''
400 Type G Pasta Spaghetti,
200 g butter,
1 leek onion
100 g grated Pecorino romano cheese,
1 glass Cognac,
Salt
Cook the spaghetti al dente and place them in a bowl, keep warm.
Melt the butter in a saucepan hazel with a leek onion , add the brandy and pour it over pasta. Stir adding the grated Pecorino romano cheese and serve.

Chicken croquettes with prosciutto

Monday, January 18, 2010




Ingredients :

15 g butter,
1 1 / 2 tablespoons flour,
2 cloves Garlic,
4 sprigs parsley,
2 chicken breasts 125 g,
75 g soft cheese (Emmentaler cheese),
50 G Prosciutto Crudo in blocks,
1 Egg
1 tablespoon lemon juice,
1 teaspoon Hot Paprika,
Salt,
Pepper,
Breadcrumbs,
Oil for frying


The ingredients are about 20-25 croquettes.
Melt the butter over low heat, add the flour and stir until the reach a brown color, then remove from heat.
Add salt and cook the chicken breasts on the plate and, once cool, cut into cubes.
Mince the parsley and then diced garlic, cheese and prosciutto. In food processor (or on the board if you want to use the crescent) Put the chicken, flour dusk, a part of the cheese, egg, lemon juice and paprika. Let go of the blade to obtain a homogeneous mixture but still containing small pieces not chopped.
Then add the remaining cheese, ham, parsley and let go a bit .
With wet hands, take about 25 long balls rotolatele in breadcrumbs.
Fry in abundant hot oil for 2-3 minutes stirring often, allow to dry on kitchen paper and serve right away.