Rice and curry pie

Rice is a crucial element for vegetarian diet, full of nutritives is versatile and perfect matches any dish, wheter sweet or savory. WIth eggs is a delicacy, used in the typical traditional holiday recipes fried and dressed with honey, and in various omelettes and frittatas.

Boiled rice
Eggs

Salt

Mozzarella cheese

Curry

Extra virgin PDO olive oil

Boil the rice in abundant salty water, drain and cool. Chop mozzarella, add the eggs scrambled with rice, add about one teaspoon every two eggs of curry powder. Warm the oil in the pan, cover with a lid, lower the heat, flip as for the 'frittata' and eventually microwave for about  2'  750W. Decorate with rosemary flowers.

©2010.2021

Savoury cake with juniper, rucola and walnuts

A good anglo-saxons habit is holiday or day before holidays tea-time, something similar to a happy 'merenda'. For these occasions combining treats and salty snacks is just perfect, ideals would be the milky 'paninetti' with salami and prosciutto or the tuna creams. Taboo food for vegetarian diet, that actually has interesting alternatives, more difficult but as tasty.

One of these is the salty cake with rocket salad, walnuts, and juniper to present with a fruity 'ciambellone'.

Extra virgin PDO olive oil
Wheat 400 gr

Egg  

Milk 1 hg
Red wine 1 hg
Salt
Provinciali herbs

Juniper
Walnuts

Rucola

Yeats
Turmeric
Aniseeds

Breadcrumbs and butter for the baking tray
Sesame and poppy seeds for garnishing

Mince the rocket salad, the walnuts , the provinciali herbs, the juniper and add the other ingredients, knead and leaven in a warm place or using the kneader. Put the mix in the oiled baking tray, sprinkle with poppy and sesame seeds and bake in warm oven (220°) till cooked, for at least 30'. Garnish with clover flowers and serve.

©2010.2020

Aubergines ciambellotto

Another variation of the salty cake wine ciambellotto.

After you have panfried the aubergines, mince it, add the mince of capers washed but not desalinated, add the other ingredients, knead and leaven, put the dough in two baking trays oiled and with breadcrumbs, garnish with juniper, herbs, and bake (200°C) for not less than 30'

Flour 800 gr.

White wine  100 gr.

Red wine 100 gr. 

Water 200 gr.

Juniper

Aubergines/eggplants in cubes panfried

Freshly picked provinciali herbs

Extra virgin PDO olive oil

Small eggs 2

Yeast

Sugar for the yeast

Sesame and poppy seeds

Capers

Chilli

©2010.2020

Tofu cake

Perfect for sunday brunch or out-of-town excursions, the tofu cake.


 

Flour 800 gr.

Milk 200gr.

Water 200 gr.

Juniper

Freshly picked provinciali herbs

Extra virgin PDO olive oil

Small eggs 2

Yeast

Sugar for the yeast

Sesame and poppy seeds

Chilli

Tofu, one pack

Mince of dried tomatoes, savory, peppermint, pennyroyal, thyme, sage (just a leaf), radish from the kitchen garden (spicy)

 

Prepare the mince, adding the chilli, mince the tofu, add the other ingredients, knead and leaven the dough. put the dough in two baking trays oiled and with breadcrumbs, garnish with juniper, herbs, and bake (200°C) for not less than 30'

©2010.2020

Spring salty cake

Flour 800 gr.

Milk 200gr.

Water 200 gr.

Juniper

Freshly picked provinciali herbs

Extra virgin PDO olive oil

Small eggs 2

Yeast

Sugar for the yeast

Sesame and poppy seeds

Raw field mushrooms chopped with juniper

MInced zucchini (1)

Tomato sauce

A teaspoon of curry

Mild chilli

Mince the juniper and the field mushrooms, the zucchini,  add the other ingredients, knead and leaven the dough. put the dough in two baking trays oiled and with breadcrumbs, garnish with juniper, herbs, and bake (200°C) for not less than 30'

©2010.2020

Going for a vegetarian diet is making choices that sometimes make you regret to have even started. Among the meat based delicacy, there are some really easy delicatessen such as the panino con il salame (salami bun), the hot pizza bianca filled with mortadella and pistachios, the tramezzino (sandwich) bresaola and rocket salad, in one word, meat and carbohydrates. No lies, merenda time or when you are pekish tempt us to enter a 'norcineria', specialty butchershop, buying a bunch of salami, prosciutto, mortadella and all you can think of and taste them with the pleasure of the kid with the jam jar. During Easter holidays temptations multiply, as well as the inputs for new vegetarian recipes. The several regional variations of the typical Easter pizza can be re-elaborated for tasty salty cakes  pefect also for a suday brunch.