Delicious Linguine pasta

Ingredients-

400gm Linguine pasta
500gm fresh clams
60ml olive oil
1 dried chili
1 clove of garlic
60ml white wine
Salt for seasoning


Ingredients-

Preparation
Clean the clove and put fresh water in the bowl of clove and add salt (according to taste)Leave for 4-5 hours

After that give then good rise under running water Put clove in pan and put pan on stove Let it be on stove for 5-6 min, until they cook well Put little bit olive oil in it after that shake it well, and let it cook properly When the cloves is ready it will release liquid Filter the liquid in another bowl and cut the clove in small pieces Chop garlic and chili and put them together in the pan when oil get heated properly Add chopped clove after 2-3 min Add pieces of clove also in it , stir it well Add filter water of clove in it Cook it for five minutes

Hot Linguine clams is ready

Serve hot linguine with chilled white wine
Serve to 4-5 people
Preparation time- 10-15 min

Rissotto

Rissotto, a Northern Italian dish is conventionally prepared in a heavy bottom skillet,preferably made of cast iron.A certain type of rice is used to prepare Rissotto (usually a aft,starchy,medium ) grain rice. Italian Arborio is the most common rice used to cook it as it is available in all the grocery store in Italy. Other rices that can be used are Roma,Vialone, Carnaroli,Nano and Maratelli.




Here's how you can make a basic Rissotto

What you need:

* 400 grams risotto rice
* 1.1 litres stock (chicken, fish or vegetable as appropriate)
* 2 tablespoons olive oil
* 1 large onion, finely chopped
* 1 knob of butter
* 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
* ½ a head of celery, finely chopped
* 2 wineglasses of dry white vermouth
* sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
* 70 grams butter
* 115 grams freshly grated Parmesan cheese


How to make:

I Stage

* Heat the stock
* Take a seperate pan and heat butter and olive oil
* add onions,garlic and celery
* Fry very slowly for 15 minutes
* Add the rice when vegetables have softened and turn up the heat.





II Stage

* Keep stirring the rice as it starts to lightly fry
* Add vermouth and keep stirring when the rice starts to look translucent
* Any harsh alcohol flavours will evaporate leaving a pleasent smell and taste behind.


III Stage

* Once the Vermouth has cooked,add a ladle of hot stock and a good pinch of salt
* Turn down the heat so that the rice does not cook too fast on the outside
* Keep adding ladlefuls of stock,stirring massaging the creamy starch out of the rice.
* This takes around 15 minutes.
* Continue adding stock until the rice becomes soft.
* If you run out of stock before the rice is cooked, add some boiling water.

IV Stage

* Remove from the heat and add the butter and Parmesan.
* Stir well
* Place lid on the pan and let it cook for 2 minutes.
* Eat it as soon as possible, while the risotto retains its beautiful tex

Cucumber-Pasta Salad

A refreshing cucumber salad with pasta and a creamy dressing is a delight. It is a quick, easy and healthy recipe.You can make the pasta and just toss in some cool and fresh cucumber to it for getting the best of taste.

What you need-

* 3 cups pasta
* 2/3 cup vinegar
* 1/2 cup olive oil
* 3 teaspoons sugar

* 1/2 teaspoon pepper

* 3 medium cucumbers, seeded and coarsely chopped
* 3 stalks celery, thinly sliced
* 2 green onions, sliced
* 1 teaspoon garlic salt





Ways to cook-

Cook pasta and then drain. Rinse it with cold water, and drain again.Combine vinegar, oil, sugar, salt, dillweed, pepper and water. Cover and shake well.

Combine pasta, cucumber, celery, and onions. Add dressing, and toss to coat.

Cover and chill for 3-4 hours, stirring occasionally. Serve with a slotted spoon.

Parmesan Chicken

This is real comfort and favorite food of every family. If you can, buy the fresh mozzarella. You won't believe the difference and it's worth it. The texture isn't rubbery like the typical mozzarella.

What you need to make Parmesan Chicken-
* 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
* salt and pepper to taste
* 1/2 cup flour
* 1/2 cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
* 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
* 1 egg
* 1/2 cup milk
* 1 tbsp. butter
* 2 tbsp. olive oil
* more parmesan cheese, for garnishing
* 4 ounces sliced mozzarella cheese (soft & creamy)
Use marinara sauce or store bought spaghetti sauce




How you proceed to make Parmesan Chicken-

Pound the chicken breasts between two slices of plastic wrap until about 1/4" thick. Season with salt and pepper. Remove excess .Dip in egg/milk mixture, then in breadcrumb/Parmesan mixture.

Heat the butter and olive oil in a large deep skillet. Brown the chicken breasts over medium heat until golden on each side (about 2-3 min per side).

Add the marinara sauce to the skillet. Heat to boiling and simmer 10 minutes. Add the chicken breasts to the sauce and sprinkle Parmesan over them. Place a slice of mozzarella on each piece of chicken. Cover and simmer about 8- 10 minutes or until the cheese has melted and the chicken is tender.

Serve with your favorite pasta.

It can serve minimum four people.

Italian Olive Oil an its gains

Arrive in November, proviso you obtain a coerce out keen over landscape in Tuscany otherwise the extra Central Italian regions, you would perceive people scattering parachutes roughly over the olive trees and hiking up keen on them to stripe away the mature olives with gloved hands -- additional south they in addition thump the olives movable with lengthy sticks, but then yet again the trees are a great deal bigger, too immense to create hand-stripping practical. The parachutes craft it much easier to regain the olives that fall to the ground.

So next is what? The olives are carried with difficulty off to the frantoio, or olive press, to formulate olive oil, Athena's great gift to humanity. In certainty the word "press" is rather of a misnomer -- the system is extra multifarious. To set in motion with the olives are cleanse, afterward, if the press is customary, they're ground in a stone ditch, by means of straight stone wheels that were once turned by oxen and are now mechanized.

During prehistoric days, the pulp then goes onto rush-mat disks that were piled and pressed. What came out was olive oil-and-water slurry that go hooked on a tank to divide; the initial olive oil was the greatest and habitually went to the landlord, who utilized it at table. The farmers, on the other hand, make use of some of their olive oil at table, and the relax around the farm, to stay lamps lit and whatnot.

The chief evils with the traditional pressing technique is its slothfulness: Olive oil is tremendously unpreserved, and by the time it draw to a close unscrambling in a conventional tank it has also begun to oxidize (this is why the landlord skimmed away the first olive oil, and why the farmers used much of their olive oil in lamps rather than as a condiment).

In order to easolve this problem, most up-to-the-minute presses use centrifuges to divide the olive oil from the water, and cut off the olive oil from the air as much as probable. There have also been move ahead in milling, and countless presses now have permanent feed mechanical crushers. But it's still a amazing pleasure to see a established stone wheel press rumble its way through the olive paste.

One particularly key thing about this sum total formulas that it’s conducted at room temperature. The olives are not at all heated, nor are the paste, and the paste is simply compressed No chemical treatments of any kind. or else the olive oil won't be virgin or extra virgin olive oil, the two best grades. Non-virgin olive oil is either too acidic to be virgin, or is pressed from pulp that has been procedure one way or another, and there is a insignificant differentiation in flavor.

Italians generally cook with virgin olive oil, and use extravirgin olive oil raw, in salads, drizzled into hearty soups, atop bruschetta, and wherever else the flavor of the oil complements the dish.

Non-virgin olive oils are acceptable for cooking, but you won't want to use one to dress your salad.