Italian
Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
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Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens) is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and blanch the chicory for 3 minutes to soften its bitterness, then drain well.
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Warm the olive oil in a wide pan and cook the garlic and red pepper flakes until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
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Add the chicory and toss over medium-high heat until coated and heated through, about 5 minutes.
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Season with salt and serve hot, this is a southern favorite alongside a secondo.
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Serve it with
A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 120 kcal
- Protein
- 2 g
- Carbs
- 6 g
- Fat
- 10 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 140 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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