OUR RECIPE IN LA SPEZIA (MAY2008)

FICHE CULINAIRE 6 PERSONS
COUNTRY : Italy			REGION: Calabria
NAME : ricotta pie with herbs in shrimp sauce, seasoned with oregano				hors-d’oeuvre	Fish	Meat
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INGREDIENTS	U.M.	Quant.	PROCEDURE
eggs Ricotta cheese Milk butter breadcrumbs grana cheese Nutmeg Fresh shrimps Mirepoix Extra virgin Olive Oil Salt and pepper Aromatic herbs : chives sage rosemary pennyroyal oregano wild fennel	N° Gr. l. gr. Gr. Gr. Gr Gr. Gr. dl gr. Gr. Gr. Gr. Gr.	10 800 2,5 250 200 100 0,5 500 100 5 100 50 50 50 30	- mince the aromatic herbs - Shell the shrimps .Prepare a fish stock with the shells and the mirepoix. - Mix the ricotta cheese with the sage, pennyroyal, rosemary and chives. Add salt and pepper and a handful of grana cheese. - Prepare a Béchamel sauce ; break the eggs in a bowl, salt them, add the mixture to ricotta cheese and whisk everything vigorously. Prepare the moulds : brush them with melted butter and roll them in breadcrumbs, fill them with the mixture and put them in the oven at 180° for about 20 minutes In the meanwhile brown the shrimps with a bit of oil and oregano, pour in the fish stock, and cook for about 3 /4 minutes. Mix.
UTENSILS: pot, oven-proof dish, microwave oven , steam oven, pan, knives, blender, moulds (20)			BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Ricotta is a typical Italian dairy product. You can have : Buffalo’s ricotta (from the Region Campania), ewe’s ricotta, smoked ricotta, salted ricotta (Sardinian speciality) Grana is cooked hard-textured and grainy cheese. The most famous is Grana Padano, cheese produced in the Po Valley; but there is also Grana Trentino cheese (cheese produced in Trentino).
DRESSING: put the sauce in the middle of the plate, put the pie on top and garnish .
PRESENTATION (photo)
hors-d’oeuvre			WINE: white wine “Curiale” from the winecellar of Caparra and Sicily

The dish was prepared by the III C, cooking class together with their teacher Mr Tropea.

Here is a short presentation of three of the students you saw on the video:

Giuseppe Andracchio: “Hello, I hope you will like our recipe. I am Giuseppe, I am 16

Niki Mannello “ Hi, I am Niki, I am 16 and I love cooking. My hobbies are music, surfing and going out.”

Fanelli Lorenzo : “ Hello, I am Lorenzo, I am 17 and I like cooking more than studying, I love motorbikes and own a beautiful one”