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Author: pura-crocus
SPAGHETTI WITH CLAMS
Take about 1 kg of fresh clams, place them in water and salt to drain for at least an hour. Change the water several times remembering to add more salt. Take a pan, pour extra virgin olive oil, garlic and a bit’ of finely chopped onion.
Fry on low heat. Add the clams and, blending with white wine, cook them until they are opened. Take about 300 grams of tomatoes , cut them in half and add them to clams. Salt, pepper and chili. When they are almost cooked, add 0.10 grams of saffron put in infusion in half glass of warm water an hour before.
Cook for few minutes. When spaghetti are ready, drain and pour into the pan by adding a pinch of finely chopped parsley. Cook them for 2 minutes more and serve.
DESSERT WITH SAFFRON AND MANGO
Take 50 ml of fresh cream and pour it in a small pot, let it cool and put in saffron infusion (0.10 g.). Turn off the heat, mix and add 250 gr. condensed milk. Separately, whisk about 300 gr. of mango pulp until you get a puree. Add the mango to the mixture and standardized everything well. Pour the mixture into 4 cups and place them in the freezer for at least 8 hours. Remove the cups 10 minutes before serving.
GNOCCHETTI WITH SEAFOOD AND SAFFRON
Wash 500 grams of potatoes and cook in salted water, drain, peel and chop finely. Add flour, salt and egg. On a pastry board, work carefully the dough until is ready and cut it into long strips, like the size of a thumb. With the help of the palms of your hands try to make them more “cylindrical” you can and cut them into small pieces (gnocchi). In a pan, fry oil, garlic and parsley add shrimp, shellfish various, scallops etc .. and saffron previously put in warm water. Saffron besides giving color will add a touch of spice to the dish. Cook slowly for about 20 minutes. Boil water, pour gnocchi and cook for a few minutes. Drain and add to the pan with the seafood. Serving hot.
PRAWNS WITH SAFFRON
10 scampi quite large, 150 gr. of green beans, 300 gr. potato, leek, a knob of butter, 1 dl. cream, 1 spoon of greek yogurt and 0.10 grams of saffron.
Boil potatoes and green beans and cut them into small cubes. Brown leek in butter, add potatoes and green beans. Add cream, yogurt and saffron put in infuse for half an hour in warm water. Cook for a few minutes on low heat add salt and pepper. Cook the prawns and serve with steamed vegetables.
RAVIOLI WITH SAFFRON
Place in a baking pan 250 gr. of cream and let it warm over low heat, add 0.10 grams. of saffron, salt and pepper. Cook ravioli, drain and mix them with the sauce adding some saffron.
PINCI WITH MONTALCINO’S SAFFRON
In a pan melt the butter with white onion finely chopped. When it starts to brown add cream and 0.10 gr. saffron and half a cup of hot water where previously (one hour) the stigmas were immersed. The cream will turn into a yellowish color, drain pinci cooked al dente and cook them for few minutes in the pan adding green pepper and pecorino cheese from Pienza.
CAKE WITH BROAD BEANS
Prepares a dough with 300 gr. flour, 60 gr. of fresh butter, two eggs, a pinch of saffron, salt and pepper.
Put the dough in the fridge for half an hour. In a pan, preferably earthenware, prepare the ingredients for the stuffing, about 500 gr. of fresh beans shelled. Today we can safely use frozen ones, even out of season provided that not too large. Cook beans with a little salted water with chopped, rather abundant, ham. Mix 300 grams of fresh ricotta with 100 grams of Parmigiano cheese and 50 grams. Emmenthal cheese diced along with two fresh eggs.
Once the beans are cooked, after they soaked up, almost completely, their cooking liquid and mix them with cheeses. We will split into two portions the dough prepared: a larger one of about ¾ of the whole, in a mould with butter, then fill it with the mixture and cover it with very thin slices of Emmental, about 50 gr., like a kind of roof protection and, in conclusion, we will complete with the other third of the dough that will be placed on the whole as a kind of cover. Bring a brush soaked in egg yolk to cover the “pie” and put it in the oven at about 180 degrees for a minimum of 45 minutes. If the “cover” tends to become darker protect it with a sheet of aluminum so it does not take too much color. The best combination with wine is always a fresh white. Valuable experience with a “Bianco del Beato” (Fattoria dei Barbi, Cinelli – Colombini) at 10 degrees Celsius temperature.
(The recipe comes from Renaissance manuscripts, remembered by Messisburgo and Scappi – Taken from the “Ricettario del Cocò Senese” by Giovanni Righi Parenti)