Ingredients:
12 shrimps, peeled and deveined (boiled hot)
4 potatoes, peeled, cubed and cooked
2 avocados
2 chives stalks, chopped
1 red onion, julienned
1 sweet pepper, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 can black olives, chopped
2 tbsp olive oil
Juice …
Ingredients:
200 g fresh mozzarella cheese, diced
1 American lettuce, chopped
1 red apple, diced
2 slices bread, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
½ red onion, shredded
Vegetable oil and butter
Vinaigrette:
70 g bittersweet chocolate, chopped
4 oz olive o…
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Christmas Holiday is coming… I wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Today I want to share one sensational salad recipe that might be well fit to your festive Christmas table. This is a Fruit Salsa, very colorful and beautiful combination of many fruits and few vegetables. Here are honeydew melon, [...]
Ingredients:
8 red apples, diced
3 celery sticks, chopped
1 lettuce
1 cup chopped walnuts
Dressing:
450 g heavy cream
400 g condensed milk
½ cup mayonnaise
Preparing:
Mix the lettuce with apples and celery in a bowl.
Blend dressing ingredients and ref…
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Ingredients:
4 cups arugula
½ cup crumbled goat cheese
½ cup olive oil
¼ cup chopped walnuts, toasted in the oven
¼ cup pine nuts, toasted in the oven
¼ cup white vinegar
2 green apples, peeled
4 tbsp balsamic vinegar
Salt and pepper
Preparing:
Cut apples into wedges.
Put in a pot to reduce the balsamic vinegar.
Add the apples for a few minutes and let cool.
Make [...]
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Haricot beans (Haricot is the french word for ‘bean’) are another staple of Italian cooking. The most popular varities include the pretty red-and cream speckled borlotti, the small one cannellini and black-eyed beans. All these are used in stews, with pasta and in soups, and borlotti and cannellini are often served as a side dish [...]
Ingredients:
16-ounce can dark red kidney beans, drained
15.25-ounce can whole-kernel corn, drained
1/2 cup pomegranate seeds
1/3 cup bottled olive oil vinaigrette
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Preparing:
Arr…
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Coming back to My-Italian-Cooking, I ‘m posting today a recipe of making flavoured sauce – Shallots with Rosemary Oil, that I used recently as a BBQ sauce for lamb. It’s a simple version of Italian sauces which can be used widely in Italian and French cuisine.
Flavoured oils make an interesting alternative to vinaigrette and other [...]
Original Italian name: Caponata
Place of origin: Sicily, Southern Italy
Caponata is a typical Sicilian name of one of vegetable dishes with a long and colourful past. Originally, this dish started life as a fish, served in the caupone in taverns around Sicily’s ports. It consisted of squid, celery and eggplants and served with a sweet-and-sour-cream. But [...]