Dinner with the President: the recipes of two first courses on the Quirinale menu

Method

Place the flour in a heap, add the water in the center and knead. let it rest for at least two hours, then roll out with the pasta machine to form tonnarelli.

Reduce wine by 50%, chop the veal and brown in a pan. Brown the bacon in a separate saucepan, then stew the finely diced carrots, celery and spring onion.

Add the browned meat to the vegetables and sprinkle with the red wine. Add the water and cook over low heat for about 1 hour and a halfadding salt.

Bring the water to 45 °, add the Parmesan and form a cream with the help of an immersion blender.
Blanch the dill and blend with the oil.

Cook the tonnarelli in salted water. Stir in the white meat sauce and Parmesan cream and finish with the dill oil.

Buckwheat pappardelle with chicory and dried tomatoes

INGREDIENTS X 4:
For the dough: 250 g 00 flour
80 g buckwheat flour
3 eggs.
For the pecorino cream: 150 g pecorino, 150 g water.
For the chicory base: 500 g cooked chicory
70 g dried tomatoes
2 cloves of garlic.

Method

Clean the chicory, boil and cool. Squeeze the chicory well and chop. Soak the dried tomatoes for 20 minutes in cold water. Dry the tomatoes, remove the seeds and cut into julienne strips. Stew the chicory with the garlic and finally add the dried tomatoes.

Mix the flour and eggs. Roll out the pastry and cut into 2 cm wide and 11 cm long rectangles.
Bring the water to 45 °. With the help of an immersion blender, add the grated pecorino and form a cream.

Blanch the pappardelle in water and salt. Stir in the chicory and pecorino cream. Garnish with julienne dried tomatoes.

“All the dishes of the Presidents” by Lorenza Scalisi (L’Ippocampo).

At the Quirinal table

All the dishes of the Presidents by Lorenza Scalisi (L’Ippocampo), from which these first two are taken, is a special book. It tells thirty years of (illustrated) recipes, stories and anecdotes of the kitchens of Palazzo del Quirinale, where lunches and dinners are often events and made in Italy taste is a must. Also for the debut menu of the “Mattarella Bis”.

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