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Rotelle with courgette flowers and baby squid
90 - 120 min
Ingredients
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360 g De Cecco Rotelle - 54
- 2 courgettes
- 8 courgette flowers
- 1 garlic clove
- 50 g pecorino
- 200 g small squids
- 4 Cantabrian anchovies
- 1 slice of bread
- 4 unsalted capers
- 2 anchovies
- 250 g plum tomatoes
- 3 garlic cloves, fresh basil
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2 tbs Billington´s Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
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white pepper, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Maldon salt, chilli pepper flavoured oil, tomato paste, fresh oregano, salt
Preparation
- Sauté the bread in a pan with a little olive oil, capers, 2 anchovies and the tomato paste previously diluted with a little hot water.
- Dry in the oven at 80° C for 2 - 3 hours, blend and toast in a pan with a little oil.Wash the tomatoes, place them in a tray with oil, salt, pepper, sugar, basil and garlic and bake for 15 minutes at 180°C.
- Peel them, crush them with a fork and season with olive oil, salt and fresh oregano leaves.
- Sweat the chopped onion in a pan with 2 tablespoons of oil, add the courgettes cut into rounds and cook on high heat with a little stock.
- Add salt, blend, whip with a little oil and keep warm.
- Remove the pistils from the squash blossoms and quickly rinse them.
- Boil the Rotelle in plenty of boiling salted water until one minute before the end of the cooking time, and in the meantime put the unpeeled garlic clove in a pan with a little oil and the Cantabrian anchovies.
- Remove the garlic before it browns and finish cooking the pasta in the pan with a little cooking water.
- Stir with the broken up squash blossoms, the chilli pepper oil and a little grated pecorino.
- Separately, quickly cook the baby squid in a very hot pan with a little hot chilli oil.
PRESENTATION
- Put a thin layer of cream of courgette on the bottom of the plate, arrange the Rotelle with the courgette flowers, finish up with a few squashed baby tomato, the baby squid seasoned with Maldon salt and lastly, sprinkle with a bit of spice bread.