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AUTHOR: Lino Bertuzzi
06/01/2024
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Foreword

WARNING (again):
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IMPORTANT AGAIN:

  1. before using any ingredient make sure you are not allergic to the ingredient itself.
  2. Before inviting friends to dinner to show how good you are at cooking, try making this dish yourself at least 2 times.
  3. when you use garlic, make sure that your partner or all your friends you did invite will eat pasta too. Don't kiss anyone who hasn't eaten it with you.
  4. Here the given doses are for 2 people. Increase everything in direct proportion if there are more guests.

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Preparing sauce for pasta & Verdesca OR Verdesca & pasta
(for 2 persons)

Bucatini it's a kind of spaghetti with a hole in the center. They therefore have a slightly larger diameter than spaghetti

Ingredients : here is an example of how to prepare a good dish of tasty pasta for 2 which requires little more than cooking time to prepare it:

  BUCATINI (click for infos) 200 g  (one hundred grams each) 750 Kcal /  3135 Kj
  Virgin Olive Oil 50cc (1/2 of a glass) 400 Kcal / 1600 Kj
  Garlic   nÂș garlic cloves finely chopped DONT REMOVE CENTER
  VERDESCA (click for infos) 400 g or as you want 308 Kcal / 418 Kj
  COARSE SALT one full soup spoon  
  Lemon juice One big FRESH lemon - do not use industrial product
  Fine grain salt a pinch of salt to the sauce  
 

The total calories of this preparation are approximately 1600 - 1700 (added 308 as you eat the fish too).

Procedure:

Verdesca slice in a frying pan
Large and profound pot to cook verdesca slices with olive oil and garlic

  1. Fill the smaller pot a little more than half with water, add the salt and put it on the heat. ADD THE COARSE SALT AND PASTA - carefully - WHEN THE WATER BEGINS TO BOIL.
  2. Click here if you need help for adding bucatini to see how  you must proceed.(how to manage and cook long pastas)
  3. In the meantime, prepare the sauce as follow:
  4. clean the garlic cloves and chop finely
  5. Put oil and chopped garlic into the bigger pan and put it on heat (medium). Stir with a wooden spoon.
  6. ADD DIRECTLY THE FROZEN SLICES OF VERDESCA INTO THE PAN
  7. ADD LEMON JUICE AND SALT on the slices
  8. LIGHT THE FIRE AND cover with a lid which allows you to monitor the cooking as it happens

 The meat of this fish is tender and tasty, with a pleasent perfume. If cooked enough It melts in your mouth almost like butter. To get the sauce to season the spaghetti, the fish must cook long enough to leave residues on the bottom of the pan as shown in the figure.

Cover and cook
Verdesca`s slices cooking



9.   Set the cooked fish aside for later use

Here's sauce with a few chopped pieces of fish


Cooking Verdesca's sauce with a few chopped pieces of fish

FINAL STEPS

  • As soon as your bucatini are cooked for the time you have decided in order to obtain the desired consistency, take half a ladle of cooking water and put it in the frying pan.
  • Drain yur bucatini or remove it from the boiling pan with the appropriate utensil.
  • Put the pasta in the frying pan and turn on the heat

Eating a slice of verdesca

  • Mix with the appropriate utensil until the water has completely evaporated.
  • Serve

Eating a slice of verdesca
About 100 g of bucatini with verdescas sauce



Fish

FISH CAN BE EATEN TOGETHER WITH PASTA IF YOU HAVE A DISH LARGE ENOUGH, OR EATEN SEPARATELY AS A SECOND COURSE

Eating a slice of verdesca
EAT YOUR FISH AS A SECOND COURSE

HERE ARE THE BONES LEFT

Eating a slice of verdesca
HERE THE BONES LEFT

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