CHEESE
"FOCACCIA": Ingredients: - Stracchino (500 g.) - Hard wheat
flour (300 g.) - Olive oil - Salt: Mix the flour with glass of salty
water. Roll it out with the rolling pin, making two discs. Oil baking-tin,
put one of the pastry disc, spread with the cheese, then cover it
with the second pastry disc. Bake in the oven (200°) for some minutes.
Serve hot.
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"TRENETTE":
Ingredients: - Sifted flour (500 g.)- 5 eggs - Olive oil - Salt
- Sardinian cheese ( 50 g.) - Potatoes - Pesto sauce. Mix well together
flour, eggs, a spoonful of olive oil, salt. Leave the mixture to
stand for half an hour, then roll it out. Make sheets of about 1
cm., roll then up, cut ribbon shaped pasta. Then leave it to stand
under a lightly floured cloth. Cut the potatoes in to slices and
put then into salty boiling water. When the potatoes are nearly
cooked put the "trenette". After some minutes cooking ( don't overcook
the pasta! ), strain the whole, sprinkle with grated "pecorino"
cheese and cover with "pesto". Serve hot.
"PESTO":
Put basil leaves into a mortar, with garbic, a pinch of salt. Slowly
pestle the whole until a mush. In the end add grated parmesan cheese
to make a cream ( homogeneous cream ). Then add two/three spoonfuls
of olive oil and one/two spoonfuls of water.