Neapolitan Recipes

This month, we include some traditional Neapolitan recipes....enjoy!! ( for more information on a traditional Neapolitan Christmas menu visit the Xmas & New Year page)

Insalata di rinforzo

• 1 cauliflower
• black olives
• green olives
• capers
• anchovies
• olive oil
• white wine vinegar

Break cauliflower into pieces and boil for a few minutes in salted water. (The pieces shouldn't be too soft nor too crunchy). Remove and leave in a bowl to cool at room temperature. Add ingredients and leave again at room temperature for at least a few hours, if not overnight, turning evry now and then, to assure that the cauliflower takes the flavour of the ingredients.

Spaghetti alle Vongole

• 400 gr spaghetti
• 1kg fresh vongole
• 3 tspns extra virgin olive oil
• 1 sprig parsley
• garlic
• salt

Soak vongole for 4-5 hours in cold salted water to cleanse of any grains of sand. Heat some olive oil in a pan and add some garlic and parsley. Add vongole. When the vongole start to open up, turn off the flame. Put some vongole aside to use later to garnish the dish. Boil some salted water, and when boling add spaghetti and cook until al dente and drain. Add spaghetti to the vongole mixture, and stir through the pasta while on a low heat for a few minutes. Garnish dish with the vongole put aside earlier.

Baccala alla Napoletana (salted cod with spicy tomato sauce)

Crocche` di patate (potato croquettes)

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