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"Squid with endive" from Campania

"Squid with endive" from Campania
© Lena Staal / Staal & Johs

Squid with endive

Main Dish
Kochbuch
Seafood
Italienische Küche

Chef Gennaro Esposito cooks an exotic dish from the south-western Italian region of Campania: "Polipetto Scarola".

Gennaro Esposito

Preparation time: 59 minutes

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Creative Concept: Florence Wibowo

For the stuffed endive

Ingredients (4 servings)
1 Endive
80 g Extra virgin olive oil
80 g Black olives from Gaeta, pitted, rinsed
20 g Capers, rinsed and soaked
20 g Currants, soaked in water
10 g Pine nuts, roasted

For the Polipetti

Ingredients (4 servings)
4 Polipetti veraci, cleaned - alternatively: larger octopus from the fishmonger, this has a longer cooking time
Olive oil
1 Grapes
1 Peperoncino
1 bunch Parsley
1 tablespoon(s) White wine vinegar
1 Garlic clove
Salt
Pepper

Preparation Polipetti:

  • Clean the polipetti well. Chop the tomatoes, peperoncino and parsley, mix with the vinegar and fill the "heads" of the polipetti. Place the polipetti in a casserole dish, add the garlic clove, olive oil and the rest of the tomato and pepper filling, season with salt and pepper. Cover with a lid and cook over a medium heat for half an hour. Test the degree of doneness with a knife.

Endive roulades:

  • Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil, blanch the endive and rinse in ice water.
  • For the filling, sauté the remaining ingredients with a dash of olive oil in a pan and season to taste.
  • Cut beautiful leaves from the endive and roll them up with the filling like spring rolls. Arrange in a baking dish, drizzle with a little olive oil and bake in a preheated oven at 190 °C for 10 minutes.

Sideboards
Serve the polipetti with the endive roulades and the cooking stock from the casserole.

Intense, brilliant straw yellow with a touch of pale gold. On the nose a little restrained at the beginning, opens after a while with notes of fine mushroom, herbs and golden...
Campania, Italy

Recipe from the Falstaff cookbook "The best recipes in Italy".

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