Recipe Notes
Recipe Created by NPA’s Chef Rosario Del Nero.
Chef’s Notes:
The Mediterranean Sea is the cradle of many cultures, every one with distinctive cuisines and components. Nevertheless, political nation borders don’t essentially mirror cultural borders.
This orzo and asparagus salad recipe, for instance, incorporates Italian cooking strategies, but additionally contains influences from Greece and different Mediterranean nations.
The orzo pasta, referred to as Kritharaki, is a favourite in Greek cooking, and it’s typically utilized in pasta salads and casseroles.
Further virgin olive oil has been produced for hundreds of years in all Mediterranean nations: Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, and so on.
Feta cheese is a staple of Greek cooking in addition to within the cuisines of different Mediterranean nations. One of the best and most flavorful feta cheese is made with sheep’s milk.
Lemons are additionally extensively utilized in Mediterranean delicacies: consider the well-known lemons from Sorrento used to make limoncello liquor or the famend Moroccan preserved lemons utilized in tagines and extra.