OPINION | FRONT BURNER: Get your vegetarian game on with squash cakes - Arkansas Online |
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OPINION | FRONT BURNER: Get your vegetarian game on with squash cakes - Arkansas Online Posted: 26 May 2021 12:02 AM PDT  I liked this summer squash recipe from Deborah Madison's "In My Kitchen: A Collection of New and Favorite Vegetarian Recipes" (Ten Speed, $32.50) so much that I made it twice in one day. The original recipe calls for Costata Romanesco, an heirloom variety of zucchini with distinctive ribs and green stripes. I made it with ordinary yellow squash. The recipe is quite versatile — in addition to changing up the variety of summer squash, other cheeses or herbs can be used. In my second batch, I skipped the herbs altogether and opted for a bit of garlic and cumin. They were just as good as the first. Madison pairs feta cheese with dill and lemon zest; and cheddar cheese with oregano, parsley or cilantro and tomatillo salsa. Other combinations I think would be good include gruyere with chives and thyme; mozzarella with basil and rosemary; Monterey Jack with jalapeno or serrano and oregano and/or cilantro. [Video not showing up above? Click here to watch: arkansasonline.com/526burner] Squash Cakes With Cheese and Herbs
In a large, wide skillet heat about 1 tablespoon of butter or olive oil over medium heat. Add the shallot and cook, stirring frequently, until softened. Add the squash, about ¾ teaspoon salt and the garlic, if using; stir well to coat. If the skillet seems a bit dry, add another tablespoon of butter or oil. Cook, turning the squash every few minutes, until the squash is golden in places, starting to dry out and is considerably reduced, about 20 minutes. Stir in a generous pinch or two of the herbs and cook for a few minutes more. Remove from heat. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, ½ cup breadcrumbs, remaining herbs and ½ cup cheese. Stir in the squash and season with pepper and cumin, if using. In the same skillet used to cook the squash (wipe it clean with a paper towel), heat a bit of butter or oil over medium heat. Drop in about 1 tablespoon of the squash mixture and cook until golden brown and crisp on the bottom, then turn and cook the other side until golden and crisp. Taste it and add more salt, pepper, cumin, cheese or breadcrumbs to the batter as needed. After making any necessary adjustments to the batter, add about 1 tablespoon butter or oil to the skillet, swirl to coat and drop the batter in small mounds, flattening each with the back of a spoon or spatula, and cook until golden and crisp on both sides. Serve warm with salsa and sour cream or yogurt. Makes 4 appetizer servings or 2 main course servings.  |
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20 vegetarian dishes from each of Italy's 20 regions - SBS Posted: 25 May 2021 04:38 PM PDT  --- Catch the brand-new second season of Cook Like an Italian with Silvia Colloca at 8pm Thursdays on SBS Food and streaming free on SBS On Demand ---
Vegetarian dishes from Italy are as diverse as the country's 20 regions, which are laden with quality produce. The variety and calibre of vegetarian food in Italy has led it to become sought after around the world. Here is a vegetarian dish from each of Italy's regions for you to consider for your next meal. Abruzzo Ciabotto Abruzzese is a simple summer vegetable stew. It mixes sautéed spring vegetables like zucchini, potatoes, onions, eggplant and tomatoes with wine and olive oil. Basilicata Stuffed eggplant, Basilicata style, is probably one of the easiest baked eggplant recipes to make. This is because the eggplant pulp is kept and a herbed breadcrumb mixture is worked into a scored vegetable flesh. To finish, more breadcrumb mix is decorated on top of the eggplant before it is baked. HOW TO COOK EGGPLANTS Calabria Lagane e cicciari fuses history with pasta and chickpeas. Lagane is thick durum wheat pasta (also found in Campania and Basilicata) that's believed to be one of the oldest dry pastas in Italy, dating back around 2,500 years. When the pasta is combined with chickpeas, rosemary, garlic, onions, parsley and chilli, it perfectly suits vegetarian tastes. Campania Silvia Colloca, host of SBS Food program, Cook Like An Italian, creates a gnocchi alla sorrentina in series two, using a regional recipe familiar to the coastal town of Sorrento. The comfort dish is typically made with uncomplicated ingredients of tomatoes, garlic and basil (used to make a sauce) and potato gnocchi. Emilia-Romagna Crescentine (also called tigelle or crescenza) is a popular street food found in the Modena area, resembling an English muffin. The flat bread is made with warm milk, yeast, and flour and deep-fried in oil. Although it's common to stuff the bread with cured meats and cheese, it's also eaten plain or served flavoured with garlic and rosemary. A POPULAR BOLOGNA STREET FOOD Friuli- Venezia Giulia Try the traditional Friulian prune-stuffed gnocchi dish, gnocchi di prugne, which hails from the city of Trieste, for a savoury and sweetness hit. The potato dumplings, stuffed with prunes, are finished with parmesan cheese, butter, breadcrumbs and cinnamon. You can eat them for dinner or dessert. Latium (Lazio) You have Rome to thank for alla Romana (carciofi alla Romana). Round Roman artichokes are stuffed with mint, parsley, garlic, lemon and salt. They are then cooked in a mix of water and olive oil, before they are served tender. ROMAN ARTICHOKES Marche Go no further than Marche for deep-fried vegetables (verdure fritte), which can be served alone or as part of a mixed fried platter. You can use zucchini, artichoke or eggplant — although vegetables in season are always best. Liguria Combine two Ligurian specialities with the dish, pasta di Liguria trenette. The meal uses trenette — a long type of narrow, dried flat pasta that's similar to linguine and fettuccine, and works well with Ligurian pesto. Add green beans and potato to the pesto pasta and you've got a dish that captures the flavours of Italy's northwest. Lombardia To make minestrone soup that's true to Lombardy, like minestrone alla Lombarda otherwise called minestrone with risoni, use lots of fresh vegetables, rice and Parmesan cheese. PACKED WITH NUTRITION There's an option to add pork or pancetta to the soup, but if you want to go vegetarian, omit the meat. Serve the soup hot in winter and cold in summertime. Molise When you live in Molise in southern Italy, a region that's home to forests and mountain ranges, you've got permission to enjoy lots of hearty dishes. One of these is baked fettuccine with tomato and mozzarella or fettuccine con salsa di aromi. Use tomatoes, garlic, mint, basil, parsley and chilli to make your sauce. Drizzle over cooked pasta before topping with cheese and baking. Piemonte This region is famed for tajarin pasta, hailing from Piedmont, made with only egg yolks. To make the silky pasta into a rounded meal, pair it with a simple sage and butter sauce. Puglia (Apulia) One of Italy's flattest regions, Puglia, is famous for orecchiette: 'little ears' of durum wheat pasta. Toss the pasta with cime di rape or turnip tops, a bitter green that comes into season throughout the region in autumn. Sardegna (Sardinia) Traditional flatbread from Sardinia, pane carasau, is so thin that it has acquired a second name — carta da musica meaning 'sheet music'. The idea is that when you roll out the dough, it should be so thin that you can clearly read a sheet of music through it. Cook the unique bread twice and savour its crunch. Try it for breakfast Sicilia (Sicily) Sicilian vegetable stew (caponata Siciliana) has many versions throughout the island. But for a truly vegetarian recipe, stick to the vegetables that make the dish famous — mainly eggplant as well as zucchini, tomatoes, onion, red and yellow capsicum. Add basil, capers, pine kernels and raisins to your heart's content. Toscana (Tuscany) According to Silvia Colloca, the Tuscan method of stuffing zucchini flowers with herbed ricotta cheese and then baking them is one of Tuscany's "most elegant vegetarian dishes". Zucchini flowers are best picked in spring. This dish can be served as an appetiser or first course. Trentino-Alto Adige (Trentino-South Tyrol) Schlutzkrapfen (or mezzelune) is a semi-circle shaped pasta, filled with spinach, ricotta and potato, which are native to this mountainous area bordering Switzerland and Austria. Toss the pasta in brown butter and serve with a fresh grating of Grana Padano cheese on top. Umbria To celebrate the flavours of this region, make an Umbrian lentil soup (zuppa di lenticchie di Castelluccio) using small Castelluccio lentils if you can find them. But if you can't, opt to feature French puy lentils instead. The soup features a soffritto and includes tomato concentrate, white wine and stock. WARMS YOU UP IN WINTER Valle d'Aosta (Aosta Valley) Here's your chance to eat hot cheese for dinner: create a fonduta alla Valdostana — a Valle d'Aosta-style fondue. To stick to tradition and honour the alpine region, use Fontina cheese melted into a sauce thickened with egg yolks. Pair the hearty fondue with potatoes, green vegetables or pickles. Veneto Rice and pea risotto (risi e bisi) is quite soup like, with the peas and rice intentionally floating in a thick vegetable broth. The dish is traditionally served at the annual Doge's banquet on the feast day of St Mark, the patron of Veneto's capital city of Venice. COOK LIKE AN ITALIAN
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