Chef Alfonso Porpora, Leonessa Pastabar, Nola. Calendario Leonessa 2019, month June.

Ingredients: 350g Manicotti Leonessa, 300g fresh seafood, 300g cannolicchi, 200g pinch squids, 300g tomatoes, 20 yellow ‘dattero’ tomatoes, 5 stalks of parsley, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 fresh chilli pepper, 1 pepper, thyme, basil, 1 lemon, EVO oil and salt.

I wash different times the seafood in salted water and then I put them in a pan with oil and garlic. I leave it on the fire for a couple of minutes, I remove the garlic and I add the parsley, the lemon and I cover it with water, I cook it for 20 minutes. I start making the sauce with chilli peppers, cutting these ones in a julienne style and removing the seeds. Then I grill the pepper and I remove the seeds. I also grill the tomatoes which I will then cool down in ice and water and I remove the seeds from these ones as well. I mix everything with a bit of oil until I have a creamy mixture to which I add some salt. I wash and put the yellow tomatoes into the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 120C with oil, garlic, thyme and basil.
In another pan I cook the cannolicchi in a sautee’ style, once they are open I remove them from the liquid, I remove the shell and the sand. I cook the pasta, leaving it a bit ‘al dente’ so I can complete the cooking on the pan with the other ingredients. I add the seafood, the cannolicchi and the squids. I complete the dish with a bit of oil. I garnish the dish with the yellow tomatoes that I have put in the oven and the chilli pepper sauce.

Rose’ wine from the peninsula of Sorrento

The summer is getting closer: there is new life, desire to shine, to leave… to cook! The recipe seems to be inspired by all of this. You should divide the tasks, who goes to the fish market, who goes to the vegetable garden, who gets the pasta and who finds the wine which has to be a rose’ and it has to come from a land where it is possible to admire the unlimited horizon of the sea, and where the grapes feel the sun and the breeze of the sea. That is a wine produced in the highest area of Vico Equense, in the peninsula of Sorrento. Careful with the one who is going to get the wine, he might get lost in those beautiful places.