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Recipes for the Whole Year



According to Italian tradition Boxing Day dinner is based on fish, whilst New Year favors pork, a sign of richness. Cotechino and stuffed pig's trotters with lentils symbolizing money are a main feature to augur prosperity for the new year. This week's menu is for Boxing Day.

Shellfish Lasagne Winter salad
Salmon fillet with watercress sauce Pandoro roses


   Shellfish Lasagne

450 g./1 lb. fresh egg lasagne - 250 g./9 oz. scampi - 250 g./9 oz. prawn tails - 100 g./3_ oz. crab meat - 1 lobster weighing approx. 500 g./1 lb.1_ oz. - 1 onion - 1 celery stalk - 1 carrot - 30 g./1 oz. butter - 2/1/2 dl. liquid cream - pckt saffron - salt


Boil carrot, onion and celery in a couple of liters/4 pt. salted water. After approx. 30', remove vegetables using skimming spoon and boil scampi, prawn tails and lobster for a few minutes. Drain shellfish, shell and place waste in stock for around 10' to thicken. Melt butter in a casserole dish, add shellfish, crab meat and lobster cut à la julienne and allow to acquire flavor, adding ladle of sieved vegetable stock. Add salt, cream and saffron without allowing to boil. Boil a few strips of lasagne at a time in lots of salted water, drain, arrange on a hot serving dish and dress with shellfish sauce.

N.B. Ingredients are given for 4 portions.

Chardonnay Brut Blanc de Blancs
Santa Margherita


Dry sparkling wine with fragrant bouquet of golden apple and white peach. Delicate, with fine, creamy perlage.

Serve at:
8°-10° C.


 
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