Valeria Piccini's recipe: Vegetable spaghetti in aromatic broth of seasoned spleen and barbecued pannicle
For the vegetable noodles
- Leeks
- Carrots
- Eggplant
- Zucchini
- Red peppers
Procedure
Peel the eggplant and bell bell pepper, and of the zucchini use only the green part. Cut all the vegetables into fine juliennes about 8/10 cm long. Before serving, quickly toss the vegetables with oil and salt and arrange on the plate in a nest shape.
For the seasoned spleen
- Fresh beef spleen
Procedure
Divide the spleen into 3/4 parts, bleach it, dry it well and place it in the desiccator for 4/5 days until it is well dried.
For the spleen broth
- 2 spring onions
- 50 g desalted capers
- 4 anchovy filets
- Grated spleen
- Soy sauce and white wine to taste.
Procedure
Brown the spring onions with the desalted capers and anchovy filets. Deglaze with a little soy sauce and white wine, add 1.5 kg ice and bring to a simmer. Cook for 40 minutes, turn off the heat and add plenty of seasoned spleen after grating. Allow to steep overnight, strain and clarify if necessary.
For the diaphragm
- Beef diaphragm
Procedure
Clean the diaphragm of fat and ribbing, cell-roast for at least 4 to 5 days.
When serving, oil and barbecue 2 minutes per side, let rest on hot pass for 3 to 4 minutes, slice not too thickly
Vegetable noodles in aromatic spleen broth
Dish composition
- Julienned black truffle
- Strawberries with vinegar and sesame oil
- Pears in vinegar and Sichuan pepper
Procedure
Slice the pears and vacuum seal them with pepper and a little old vinegar. Perform the same procedure for the strawberries. Before serving, quickly saute the previously prepared julienned vegetables with oil and salt and arrange them in a nest shape on the plate with strawberries and pears. Lay the diaphragm slices on the base thus composed. Finish the dish with pea flowers, garlic flowers, julienned black truffle and basil. Bring to the table and pour in the broth.
Photo credits: Lido Vannucchi