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Local recipes in Elba Island

Testi a cura dell'Azienda Promozione Turistica dell'Arcipelago Toscano

Rice with the ink of cuttle fish (squid) - Gurguglione - Stockfish alla riese - Drunken Tart - Schiacciunta - Corollo - Octopus I Boil - Full Sardines

RICE WITH THE INK OF CUTTLE FISH (SQUID)

Ingedients- 600/700gms. of Cuttlefish, parsley, onions, garlic,500gms. of peeled tomatoes, chilli, wine, salt , rice.

Clean the cuttlefish without breaking the ink sack which inturn must be removed carefully and put aside. Cut the cuttlefish into small pieces.
In one cup of oil, sautè a small amount of onion and, once browned, add the cuttlefish and continue to cook for a few minutes before adding one glass of white wine. Once the wine has evaporated, add 500gms. of peeled tomato purèe, parsley, chopped garlic and salt. Allow to cook well, adding water when necessary. The sauce must remain liquid to allow the rice to cook. When the cuttle fish is tender, add rice and the ink and stir well. Add water when necessary.

GURGUGLIONE - Vegetable stew

Ingredients: 800gms. of green capsicums, 3 large aubergines, 2 zucchini, 1 large onion, basil, parsley, 600gms. of ripe tomatoes.

For the success of this dish, the use of fresh vegetables is necessary.
Wash the capsicum and cut into 4 pieces. Cut into large cubes the aubergine and zucchini. Purèe the tomatoes and cut the onion into thin slices. Put all the ingredients together into a frying pan with 2 cups of oil, basil, parsley and a pinch of salt. Cover the pan and let cook at a high and then moderate temperature. Keep the pan covered to allow the vegetables to cook in their natural juices. Serve hot.

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STOCKFISH ALLA RIESE

Ingredients: 1.2kg of stockfish (tender), onion, 500gms. of peeled tomato, basil, parsley, chilli, green peppers, black olives, pine nuts, capers, oil, parmesan cheese, salt and pepper.

If possible, stockfish must be cooked in a terracotta casserole dish. Slice onion and sautè in 1 cup of oil. Once the onion starts to brown, add 2 small green peppers/chillies, a couple of basil leaves, chopped parsley, salt, pepper and purèed tomato. Let the tomato cook well before adding the chopped stockfish and 1 cup of oil. Add the black olives, pinenuts to your liking and a few capers. Reduce the heat and allow to simmer, adding warm water if necessary. Once the stockfish is cooked, sprinkle with grated parmesan cheese.

SCHIACCIA BRIACA - Drunken tart

Ingredients: 1kg of white flour, 500gms of sugar, 200gms of sultanas, 300gms of chopped mixed nuts, pinenuts, 2 glasses of oil, aleatico to taste, 1 glass of alchermes, small ball of yeast.

In the evening prepare a dough using the small ball of yeast disolved in a glass of warm water adding 100 gms of flour. Leave the dough to rise all night, covered with a cloth.

On a board covered in flour, place the dough and add the crushed nuts, sultanas, oil, aleatico and alchermes. Knead and blend together until the dough becomes soft and smooth.
Grease a small round baking tin, and place the dough on oven paper. Place into the baking tin and flatten the dough.
Before placing into the oven, sprinkle the dough with pinenuts. Cook in the oven at high temperature for 40/45 minutes. Once baked, leave the tart to cool and serve without removing the baking sheet.

SCHIACCIUNTA

Ingredients: 3 eggs, 300 flour grs, 300 grs of sugar, 100 grs of lard, a taking of yeast or a teaspoon of bicarbonate, bark of lemon grated.

To beat in a tureen the eggs, the sugar, the lard, the yeast and the bark of lemon. To facilitate this procedure is to amiss employ well the hands and not the whip as some they do.

The heat of the hands is useful to make to loosen the lard, also favoring a further oxygenation to I mix him and facilitating I incorporate him of the flour that must gradually happen thin to get a beautiful smooth and homogeneous pasta.
To anoint and to flour a rectangular baking-pan and to pour him to you I mix. Once to Knoll it was custom to decorate the surface of the schiacciunta engraving you some bracelets with a thimble or with the faith of the marriage. To bake to 180° for around ¾ of now and to dust of sugar semolato before serving.

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COROLLO

Ingredients: 500 flour grs, 150 grs of butter, 300 grs of sugar, 4 eggs, a bicchierino of liqueur of anise, a glass of milk, bark grated of lemon an envelope of yeast.

To prepare the fountain flour in whose crater will pour the eggs previously beaten and the butter made creamy through the heat of the hands.
To also unite the sugar, the liqueur, the bark grated of the lemon and the glass of lukewarm milk, in which we will have dissolved the chemical yeast. To amalgamate the all working I mix him for a long time. To butter and to flour a bun baking-pan and to pour him to you I mix now allowing to cook him/it to moderate (180°) fire for around ¾ of.

After having him/it sfornato, lasciar to cool the corollo before serving dusts him of sugar to veil.

OCTOPUS I BOIL

Ingredients: 1 octopus of around 1 Kg, 3 liters water, salt, peperoncino.

To salt the water (three times the dose used for the pasta) insaporirla with the peperoncino and to bring her/it to ebullition.
To plunge the octopus for three times with the help of a forchettone to make him take the form of a daisy wheel and finally to dip him/it in the water, making him/it cook for around mezz'ora.

Extinguished the fire it is necessary to make him/it still rest in his/her own water of cooking for about twenty minutes. To Portoferraio it uses to the fork, or rather the granfies are pierced with a fork and he/she eat without adding you any other seasoning. Wanting can be cut to bits and to season with oil, lemon, salt, parsley and garlic.
The use to beat the octopus with an oarlock to move the meats is him to consider anymore a propitiatory rite of ancient origins that a true necessity. In fact the octopus because of his/her semblances the symbol of the sea monster has always been considered for excellence and therefore beating him/it with a wood the struggle was simulated against this mysterious strength of the nature.

FULL SARDINES

Ingredients: Sardines or fresh anchovies, bread's crumb bathed with the milk, garlic, parsley, grated parmesan cheese, salt, peperoncino, oil of olive, fresh or bald tomatoes, eggs.

They scale the Sardinians or the anchovies (less fat) with the help of a sheet of yellow paper dampened repeatedly passing from the tail to her head and they open throwing the head toward the tail from the part of the belly, they will also come away the interioras.

Attention not to divide completely the two fillets. If however this had to happen the unusable fishes to be filled they will go to strengthen the stuffing. You calculates a generous dose of ten Sardinians for every table companion. The stuffing is gotten mixing fillets of Sardinians or anchovies grinded, bread's crumb bathed in the milk, a whole egg for every three portions, grated parmesan cheese, garlic and parsley minced, ground peperoncino and salt.
All must perfectly be amalgamated. The stuffing prepares him with a spoon on the fillet open of the Sardinians overlapping the other to mo' of cover. They gently pass later him in flour and in the egg and they are fried.
The sardines or the anchovies can have served so, gilded and fried, or referred with a salsina of tomato perfumed with wild fennel.

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