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Scallop crepes with eggplant and cheese flavoured with basil

Fagottino di crepes con melanzane, mozzarella di bufala, Grana Padano, Asiago Stagionato e ricotta di pecora

Asiago DOP

Grana Padano DOP

Scallop crepes with eggplant and cheese flavoured with basil

Time: 40 min Lifestyle: Creative Type of cheese: Asiago Stagionato, Grana Padano Course: Appetiser

4 Crepes
250 g ricotta cheese
50 g buffalo mozzarella
50 g Grana Padano PDO
1 medium/small eggplant 
1 coppered tomato or 12 cherry tomatoes 
5/6 basil leaves
250 g bechamel sauce
40 g Asiago Stagionato PDO cheese 
salt to taste

 

Preparation time: 30 min

Cooking time: 10 min 

Take the eggplant, make 4 round slices (3 mm thick) and blanch them in a frying pan on both sides; dice the remaining eggplant into 0.5 cm cubes, mix in a pan with extra virgin olive oil, season and cool. Put the ricotta, Grana Padano PDO cheese, diced buffalo mozzarella, a few tablespoons of the previously cooked eggplants, 4 cherry tomatoes cut into round slices and 2 thinly cut basil leaves in a saucepan. Mix everything together and add salt. 
Then take a crepes, lay an eggplant cut into round slices, putt 60 g of mixture on top and roll the crepes shut. The crepes should be lightly greased and laid on a buttered plate, and baked at 165' for 8 minutes.
Prepare the bechamel sauce by adding a little grated Asiago cheese; cut the remaining cherry tomatoes in 4 and mix in a pan with extra virgin olive oil together with the remaining diced eggplant; add salt, flavour with 2 basil leaves.

N.B. the eggplant can be fried as required to bring out the taste of the dish.

 

Preparation time: 30 min

Cooking time: 10 min