- Antonio Carluccio's Simple Cooking
- Two Greedy Italians
- Southern Italian Feast DVD
- Italia
- Complete Mushroom Book
- An Invitation to Italian Cooking
- Antonio Carluccio Goes Wild
- Antonio Carluccio's Vegetables
- Antonio Carluccio's Southern Italian Feast
- Complete Italian Food
- Antonio Carluccio's Italian Feast
- Passion for Pasta
- A Passion for Mushrooms
Antonio Carluccio's Vegetables
Vegetables are central to Italian culinary heritage so it is little wonder that its repertoire of vegetable recipes is so rich. With over forty years of experience in both collecting and creating vegetable based recipes, Antonio Carluccio guides us through the many processes of successfully buying, storing and cultivating fresh produce in order to create nutritious and wholesome Italian food. Italian vegetable cooking is perhaps the most creative and resourceful in Europe, and this stylish and inspiring book makes it abundantly clear.
Author - Antonio Carluccio
Sample recipes from this book
Maccu ('Ncapriata)
Broad Bean Mash
What polenta, the maize porridge, used to be for poor northerners, maccu was for southerners. It is a real peasant dish, reminding us that farmers sometimes had little but this left to eat in winter. Today, however, you can find maccu on the menus of the best restaurants in the whole of southern Italy, but especially in Puglia and Sicily, the main areas of broad bean cultivation. For this dish you have to find dried broad beans without the skin, just the two halves.
Fiori di Zucchini Ripieni
Stuffed Courgette Flowers
There are two ways of cooking courgette flowers, either fried in batter as they are, or stuffed and then fried. Fiori di zucca, pumpkin flowers, are often used in regional cooking, but unless you have pumpkin plants in your garden, they are difficult to come by. In the trade, because they have become a 'classic' in the cooking of many cuisines, courgette flowers are now supplied so that they are not quite so rare any more. In fact, it is easier to find the small courgettes with the flowers still attached, and this is what I suggest you use. If you get the flowers from your garden, check very carefully to see that there are no insects in them.