Recipes

Every month a new recipe from the Cilento's culinary tradition!



Fiori di Zucca
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Ingredients (4 servings)
Preparation 30 minutes

  • 12 zucchini blossoms
  • A pint (500 ml) whole milk
  • 3 heaping tablespoons flour
  • An egg, lightly beaten
  • Pinch ofsalt
  • Extra Virgin Cilento Olive oil ”Azienda Agricola Maio

  1. Trim the stems of the zucchini blossoms, remove the pistils, wash them gently and pat them dry just as gently.
  2. Prepare the batter by combining the milk, flour and egg.
  3. Heat the oil.
  4. Lightly salt the zucchini blossoms, dredge them in the batter, fry them until golden, drain them on absorbent paper, and serve them hot.
 
Pizza Chiena
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Ingredients
Preparation 45 minutes

Filling:

  • 100 grams Grated goat cheese
  • 200 grams Fresh goat cheese
  • 6 eggs
  • ½ Soppressata cut in cubes
  • Pepper
  • 100 grams dry sausage diced

Pastry:

  • 1 Kg. flour
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 envelope of dry yeast
  • Lard
  • ½ glass of white wine

  1. For the pastry mix all the ingredients together until you get an even mixture. Set that a side.
  2. For the filling, join the eggs (beaten), soppressata, dry sausage, pepper, both goat cheese and mix well.
  3. Lay out the pastry dough in baking tray so that half the dough can be folded over the tray.
  4. Fill the baking tray with the pizza mixture.
  5. Place in oven at 350F for about half hour.
  6. Five minutes before removing brush with beaten egg yolk. Enjoy!!
 


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