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 wo essential ingredients of the Mediterranean are vinegar and onion. Both used since ancient times, one to add flavor and above all preserve foods, the other known five thousand years before Christ in Palestine and northern Asia, cultivated in Caldea, a mysterious land of soothsayers and magicians.
The pleasantly sour flavor of raw onion softened if necessary in cold water adds a lively touch to salads and raw vegetables which are traditional dishes with the flavor, fragrance and color of the sun.
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Fattush
Raw vegetables mixed with bread |
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4 soft round unleavened bread rolls - 1 bunch lettuce - 1 red onion - 2 cucumbers - 2 tomatos for salad - 4 cloves garlic - 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil - juice of 1 lemon - salt - 1 tablespoon Cayenne pepper.
Clean the vegetables thoroughly, cut lettuce leaves into pieces, cucumbers into rounds discs and dice the tomatos; chop the onion roughly and the garlic finely.
Cut the bread rolls into halves and trim edges into squares to be dipped into very cold water. Place all the ingredients into a salad bowl, pour lemon juice over them, add salt and mix.
Gently pour in oil and add Cayenne pepper and serve.
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Semi-Sparkling Müller Thurgau
Santa Margherita
Sparkling white wine with sharp bouquet of mint green notes, rosemary and candied lime; cool and clean aromatic taste.
Serve at:
8° - 10° C.
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