Italian Food Recipes

This is an Italian appetizer prepared with ingredients that have opposite taste: the main ingredient is radicchio of Treviso that is of bitter-tasting, then I add some raisins that to the contrary are sweet such as the almonds and the pine nuts, and then to give to the salad also a spicy taste I add some pistachio. The preparation of this Italian appetizer is simple and fast, only one step is very important: you should place the browned nuts over the radicchio when they are still hot, in this way the different taste blend well. You can serve this salad as an appetizer or also as a side dish of cheese second course.

INGREDIENTS (for 4 – 6 people):
300 g of Radicchio of Treviso known also as Trevisana
25g of Salty pistachio without peel
25 g of Pine nuts
50 g of Raisins
20 g of Almonds without peel
3 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 5 minutes

WINE: Cabernet Franc delle Venezie (Red Wine)

PREPARATION
Place the raisins in a bowl with some water for about 10 minutes. In the mean time clean radicchio and cut it in thin stripes, preheat the extra virgin olive oil in a pan and place in it the pine nuts, the almonds, the pistachio

and let them slightly brown for about 5 minutes. Drain the raisins, put some radicchio in a bowl,

place over it the nuts still hot,

the raisins and the remainder of radicchio mix all together and serve.

This is the result:


BUON APPETITO!