Amrita’s Italian food fetish
Mumbai, September 29, 2010
Actor Amrita Rao agrees to the romantic aspect of Italian food, “I can easily be wooed with a well made pasta.” Talking about her visit to Italy for a shoot, Rao says, “I ate different kinds of brochettes dipped in olive oil and basil sauce.” For her Italian fix in Mumbai, she prefers Out of the Blue or eats “yummy baked vegetable with cheese” that her mother prepares.
Homemade Pasta with Beetroot
Ingredients
80 gms Pasta (Tagliatelle and Fettuccine), 25g cooked beetroot
1 tablespoon olive oil ,20 gms spinach ,30 gms Robiola cheese,30 gms Crescenza cheese
Method
Cook pasta for 5-6 minutes in boiling salted water, or until the pasta is al-dente.
Blanch the pasta in Pan 1 with spinach for flavour
Sauté olive oil, garlic and spinach in Pan 2 and add Robiola and Crescenza cheese.
Add beetroot and cook with Parmesan cheese Add cooked pasta to Pan 2 and lightly toss
Sauté and serve hot.
Margherita pizza
Ingredients
red tomatoes, green basil, mozzarella, rucola, olive oil, 1 kg flour, 500g water, 50g salt,
25g yeast
Method
Knead pizza dough and keep in a plastic bowl for 25 minutes.
Place the dough in an electric oven for 20 minutes. Unwrap the dough and brush with olive oil in the tray and wait until it rises to double its size. Knead dough to base form, add 1 tsp of tomato sauce.
Add garlic and basil leaves. Place in the home oven for 5 minutes and remove.
Add mozzarella on top and place the pizza in the oven. Remove and add additional toppings, as per liking.
