Use of bread in recipes
COOKED BREAD
Ingredients: 200/300 grams firm homemade bread, 4 eggs, 50 gr. leeks, parsley, extra-virgin olive oil, salt and chili peppers at pleasure.
Heat the oil in a pan with chopped leeks and chili pepper and brown for a few minutes. Then add a little water and, when it is boiling, add beaten eggs and parsley, stirring gently with a wooden spoon. Pour the eggs on slices of toasted bread, previously placed in earthenware pots. Typical peasant dish made with poor ingredients - as common in southern Italy cuisine, employing leftover bread.
FUSILLI WITH BREAD CRUMBS
Ingredients: 400 gr. durum wheat flour, 100 gr. bread crumbs, extra-virgin olive oil, parsley, garlic and salt.
How to make fusilli (also called ferricelli): mix flour with water and a pinch of salt and knead the dough until it is homogeneous, then make cylinders about 10 cm. long. By the typical thin metal stick, carve each cylinder to obtain a twist; take it off the stick and place to dry on a large wicker tray, called "spasa". Heat the oil in a pan; add garlic and the bread crumbs. Stir with a wooden spoon and pour on pasta, cooked al dente and drained. Sparkle with chopped fresh parsley.
BEANS SOUP
Ingredients (6 servings): 400 grams beans, oil, salt, garlic, chili pepper, celery, tomatoes, biscuit bread.
Soak dry beans for 12 hours in abundant lukewarm water. Drain and cook for about 2 hours in water and some fresh celery; add salt when almost cooked. Heat the oil in a pan with garlic and tomatoes; add the beans and stir gently, cooking for a few minutes. Place some biscuit bread in plates and pour the beans on top, adding a trickle of Cilento DOP extra-virgin olive oil. Typical of Cilento are all the soups that employ biscuit bread served in earthenware pots and covered with pulses of all kinds.
THE FAMOUS “WATER-SALT” OF CILENTO
Ingredients: 4/6 large bread biscuits, 5/6 cherry tomatoes (optional), a pinch oregano, a pinch of salt, extra-virgin olive oil.
Soak bread biscuits in water (for less than 1 minute, or they will be too soggy); place them in a large bowl and add oregano, salt, diced tomatoes and oil.
