Be careful when choosing your noodles, they must be soaked and fried; a good quality noodles survives this cooking process. Add the chilli when it is served, to make the dish spicy or mild.
Ingredients for 2 people
1 Small Pack of Glass Noodle
1 Egg
Dry Shrimp
Tofu
Red Onion
Bean Sprouts
1/2 Tablespoon Sugar
2 Light Soy Sauce
1 Tablespoon Oyster Sauce
2 Tablespoon Chilli Sauce
1 Tablespoon Peanuts ( fine pieces )
1 Teaspoon Dry Flaked Chilli
3 Tablespoons Oil
To do:
1. Soak the glass noodles in water for 5 minutes to soften them.
2. Chop the tofu into small squares,
3. Slice the red onion into smaller pieces.
4. Clean the fresh bean sprounts.
5. Put the oil in a hot frying pan with the dry shrimp, and fry for 30 seconds
6. Move it to one side of the frying pan to make room to fry an egg.
7. Break the egg in hot oil and stir quickly for a few seconds to break it up.
8. Add the glass noodle and other cooking ingredients and stir-fry for 1 minute.
Zucchini Summer Salad
Brown zucchini, then layer and sprinkle with thin slices of garlic, mint leaveSs; finish with wine/cider vinegar, let sit for three hours, and serve cold.
6-8 zucchini (courgettes) olive oil 2 garlic cloves 3 tbsp mint leaves very good wine vinegar salt
Scaccia
An alternate guide for when antiche ricette and amiche are not available.
For the dough 1 kg. Hard wheat flour ½ cup water ½ tablespoon salt ½ cup olive oil 1 lemon ½ cup white wine
For the filling Olive oil Fried eggplants Tomato sauce Grated cheese like Provola and Caciocavallo, and Ragusano
Mix flour, water, lemon juice, white wine and salt in a kneading machine for 5/10 minutes. When the dough is smooth and elastic, knead by hand adding oil slowly. Knead until the oil will be completely absorbed.
Draw a square sheet of pastry as big and thin as you can, helping you with some flour if needed. Season with olive oil and tomato sauce all the sheet, avoiding only two bands above and beneath. Add vegetables and grated cheese at your pleasure, only in the middle. Now you have to fold the scaccia. Ply up and down the bands to the middle, then ply the lateral dough to the middle for two times, closing it like a book. Finish with olive oil.
Preheat oven at 200° (centigrade, eh?) and cook until it will be golden brown.
You can make also smaller pieces of scaccia and fill them with ricotta cheese, herbs and spinaches, onions.
