Inventing Milanese Dishes - STORIES
Pizza Hummus
Hummus
Ingredients: white beans, salsa alle noci (walnut sauce), olive oil, garlic, lemon, cumin, salt
Just use precooked beans that come in cans or jars. Put all ingredients into a blender and let them mingle violently until they form a homogeneous body. Salsa alle noci may be replaced by tahini or peanut butter, just to give the mixture a nutty flavour and a richer consistency. Depending on your preferred consistency, you may want to add some water or more beans to the mixture.
Topping
Ingredients: bresaola, tomato, onion, olive oil
Chop tomato and onion into desired shapes and sizes, then stir-fry with some olive oil. Cut bresaola into cubes; set aside while tomato and onion are stir-fried. When onion has softened and tomato begins getting mushy, add in the bresaola. Mix well and set aside.
Sauce
Ingredients: parsley, coriander, scallion, chilli, water, olive oil, salt
Put everything into a blender. Water is optional, depending on how thick you’d like the mixture to be. This is basically a version of zhug (سحاوق).
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