Italian Food Recipes

Pumpkin is a fruit suitable for any type of Italian recipes as you have seen in the recipes that I presented in the previous days. Here I prepare fried pumpkin that is an ideal side dish or can be also a delicious appetizer; I use the Mantua pumpkin cut in thin slices and I accompanied the sweet taste of pumpkin with the spicy taste of rosemary in order to obtain an appetizing recipe. The slices of pumpkin fried should be crunchy, to obtain this result you might pay attention to the quantity of extra virgin olive oil in which the pumpkin is fried: don’t cover completely the slices of pumpkin otherwise they’ll become too soft.

INGREDIENTS (for 4 – 6 people):
500 g of Pumpkin
Extra virgin olive oil to fry
2 Cloves of Garlic
Rosemary
Salt
Black pepper

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 20 minutes

WINE: Alto Adige Traminer aromatico Doc (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Clean, peel and cut in thin slices the pumpkin.


Preheat the extra virgin olive oil in a pan, place in it the garlic and let them golden,

then remove it and place in the oil the slices of pumpkin with the rosemary. Sprinkle the pumpkin with salt and pepper and let them fry, this takes few minutes because the pumpkin has a tender pulp.

When the pumpkin is ready place the slices over a sheet of kitchen paper in order to remove the excess of oil. You can serve them hot or cold.
This is the result:


BUON APPETITO!