Italian Street Food: Recipes from Italy’s Bars and Hidden Laneways

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This is not just another Italian cookbook filled with pizza and pasta recipes.

Italian Street Food takes you behind the piazzas, down the back streets and into the tiny bars and cafes to bring you traditional, local recipes that are rarely seen outside of Italy. Delve inside to discover the secret dishes from Italy’s hidden laneways and learn about the little-known recipes of this world cuisine.

Learn how to make authentic polpettine, arancini, piadine, cannoli, and crostoli, and perfect your gelato-making skills with authentic Italian flavours such as lemon ricotta, peach and basil, and panettone flavour. With beautiful stories and photography throughout, Italian Street Food brings an old and much-loved cuisine into a whole new light.

From the Publisher

Crostini with whipped ricotta, anchovy & caperberries

Makes 12

Brush the slices of bread with a little olive oil and place on a chargrill pan. Cook over a high heat until chargrill lines appear, then turn over and cook the other side, ensuring that the bread doesn’t burn. This can be done several hours in advance or just before serving, if you would like the crostini to be slightly warm.

Place the ricotta in a mini food processor and process for about 15 seconds until it turns into a thick cream. (This can be done ahead of time and set aside in the fridge until you are ready to assemble the crostini.) Transfer the ricotta cream to a piping bag, and pipe a small mound onto each slice of grilled bread. Wrap an anchovy around the ricotta, top with a caperberry (or 3 capers) and serve immediately.

Ingredients 1 small breadstick or baguette, cut into 1 cm thick slices olive oil, for brushing 180 g ricotta 12 good-quality anchovies 12 caperberries (or 36 salted capers, rinsed)

Focaccia Bari-style

Mixed fried fish in a cone

Truffled mushrooms, rocket & parmesan roll

Panettone ice cream

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Smith Street Books (September 7, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1922417521
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1922417527
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.49 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.01 x 1.19 x 9.92 inches