Sunday, January 30, 2011

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chickpea flour with Nettle and Emmental

This week we are dedicated to gardening, with some friends we have rearranged a little garden left uncultivated for some time. As you can imagine the whole area was full of nettle plants of all sizes, but we were not intimidated, and provided good advice and gardening gloves we have cleaned up all pruned tree oleander and set aside some peaks nettle ... the idea was to make a good risotto ...
back home but plans have changed a little, and the risotto was not among our desires, as he made off the idea of \u200b\u200bexperiencing something new ... so did the recipe that we offer today, but before going into details, it seems important to open a small parenthesis the orchard.

"Urtica urens" is the scientific name of the most common nettle. Perennial plant common in temperate zones is characterized by a thick hair, is present in the leaves than in stem, containing a caustic liquid in contact with the skin causes itching and redness.
There are many properties of this herb known since ancient times, the main one having a high content of iron antianemic useful to health, but it also has purifying, toning, diuretic and tonic. In the kitchen
generally uses the tops of young plants, blanched briefly in boiling water are often combined with soup, rice or mixtures.

Ingredients
130 gr wheat flour type "0"
50 g chickpea flour
30 grams of extra virgin

oil 3 eggs 200 grams of cooked nettle tops

Emmentaler cheese 80 g 50 g yeast

salt pepper curry

poppy seeds

Bring kitchen gloves, despite the nettles were cut stinging properties of the plant held for the first 12 hours after harvest, cut the tops softer than nettles and wash under running water. Put a saucepan with cold water, bring to a boil, then add the nettles and cook for 1-2 minutes at most. Drain the vegetables (if you want you can save the cooking water that can filter and drink as tea) and put on a plate to cool.
Break three eggs into a glass bowl, stir quickly with a fork, in order to break the egg in that case Instead not absorb the flour, add oil and stir .
Combine the two flours and add to the mix, helping you make the dough smooth with a rubber spatula, then add the blanched nettles, Emmenthal diced, yeast, salt, pepper and curry.
Stir thoroughly and cover with a plate and let stand for 1 hour at room temperature.
After the interval, place the bowl containing the mixture in the refrigerator for about 5 / 6 hours.
Preheat the oven to 160 degrees, filled a third of the muffin molds with the mixture is cold, sprinkle with poppy seeds and bake for 20/25 minutes. Serve hot.

NOTE: Be sure to cover the pan with aluminum foil after 10 minutes of cooking, so you do not have the crust of the muffin sbruciacchiata ....



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