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Ossobuco alla Milanese – Italian Recipe from Milano

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Ingredients (2 servings):

  • 2 cross slices of veal shanks, about 4 cm thick, with the bone in the middle
  • 1 large onion
  • a few tablespoons olive oil
  • 100 ml white wine
  • 2 tablespoons rye flour
  • 50 b butter
  • 250 g button mushrooms
  • 1-2 sprigs of rosemary
  • 1 lemon for its rind
  • 1 bunch of parsley leaves
  • 2 garlic cloves

Preparation method:

  1. Cut the onion into slices.
  2. Halve the mushrooms.
  3. Heat half of the oil in a large frying pan and fry the sliced onions until caramelized and golden.
  4. Pour in the wine and cook until the wine is evaporated and then turn off the heat.
  5. Cut the skins of each veal shank slice in 3 places, so it doesn’t squeeze the meat when frying.
  6. Heat the rest of the oil in another frying pan, add the veal shanks and fry 2-3 minutes without moving them.
  7. When golden brown, flip them and fry them on their other sides for 3 more minutes.
  8. Remove the meat from the pan and set aside. Add the litre of stock and deglaze the pan.
  9. Transfer the ossobucco slices to the pan with fried onions, together with the rosemary sprig, and the deglazed liquid from the other pan. Season with salt to taste and cook for about 20 minutes.
  10. In a smaller, pancake pan add the flour. Heat up by keep stirring until the flour is browned but not burned.
  11. Add the halved mushrooms and cook for 20 more minutes, until the meat is soft and detached from the bone.
  12. Meanwhile, prepare the gremolata:
  13. Chop the parsley.
  14. Chop the garlic cloves.
  15. Grate lemon’s rind.
  16. Add to a smaller bowl the chopped parsley, chopped garlic, grated lemon rind and 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Mix them well together to emulsify a bit.
  17. Serve the ossobucco slices with their mushroom sauce and top it with a spoonful of gremolata.

Csókakői Kolbászleves – Hungarian Sausage Soup Recipe with Vegetables and Poached Egg

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Ingredients (4 servings):

  • 3 medium carrots
  • 1-2 medium parsley root
  • 1 smaller celery root
  •  small turnip
  • 1 onion
  • 6 tbsp of oil
  • 1 small bouquet of parsley
  • 1.5 litres of bone soup (can be made from soup cubes)
  • half a lemon’s juice
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • vinegar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 heaped tablespoon of flour
  • 150 grams of sour cream
  • 20 dkg Csabai Hungarian sausage

Preparation method:

  1. Cut the carrots, parsley root, celery and turnip into 1-2 cm cubes.
  2. Chop roughly the onion.
  3. Chop roughly the parsley leaves.
  4. Slice the sausage into 1/2 cm thick.
  5. Heat the oil in large soup pot and sweat the chopped onions until translucent.
  6. Add the sausages and fry for another 3-4 minutes.
  7. Add the diced vegetables and stir fry them for 7 minutes.
  8. Add the bone broth, lemon juice, chopped parsley leaves, season with salt and freshly ground, bring to boil. Cook for 30 minutes or until the vegetables are cooked through.
  9. Meanwhile, prepare the poached eggs. In a smaller pot bring to boil salted water with vinegar.
  10. Over low heat, add the eggs one by one. Spoon the whites around the yolk to make them more perfect and stir the water to move them around.
  11. Cook for 2 minutes and remove with a slotted spoon. Keep them in lukewarm water until serving.
  12. Mix smoothly the flour with the sour cream, add a bit cold water if too thick. Add a ladle of soup from the hot pot, stir it well and then pour it into the soup pot and cook for 2-3 more minutes stirring.
  13. Serve the soup in large saucers, topped with a poached egg in each.

Grilled Argentine Shrimps with Chimichurri

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Ingredients (2 servings):

  • 500 g / a dozen whole Argentine red shrimps
  • 100 ml olive oil
  • 3 Tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 5 garlic cloves
  • 1 bunch of fresh parsley leaves
  • juice of 1 lime

Preparation method:

  1. Peel off the shell of the shrimps leaving on the last segment of the tail.
  2. Devein them if you are skilled enough, I was lazy, so I left most of them with the veins.
  3. Chop the garlic.
  4. Chop these parsley leaves.
  5. Place the parsley leaves, 100 ml olive oil, the chopped garlic cloves and lime juice into a bowl.
  6. Using a hand/stick blender them until everything is mixed nicely together.
  7. Coat the shrimps with a bit of remaining olive oil and grill them 1- 2 minutes per side until cooked and have nice grill marks. Proceed in batches if having a smaller grill, like me.
  8. Lay the shrimps on a large plate and drizzle the chimichurri sauce over them. Serve while hot.