Mixed spring salad

Ingredients for 2 people:

• asparagus (advanced by rolls)
• 6 cherry tomatoes "cherry"
• 2 eggs
• 1 mozzarella cheese
• 2 tablespoons oil EVO
• salt q.b.

Time: 10 min
Difficulty: Very easy

Cook the eggs in boiling water for 8 minutes.
If you are not already cooked, cleaned asparagus removing the tough parts and wash them well.
Boil, after being tied up in a bundle, in lightly salted water. Remember that it is better to a pot high and narrow and let the tips (most sensitive) facing upwards.
After 10 minutes of cooking, drain well and dry thoroughly.
Wash the tomatoes and cut a cross leaving the bottom attached.
Cut the mozzarella into slices.
Arrange on a serving dish asparagus, sliced ​​hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes and mozzarella. Season with olive oil and salt, cook for few minutes left.
Enjoy your meal!

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Omelette with spaghetti

Often have the remaining pasta, then here is how to "recycle" in an excellent omelette that can also be prepared as an appetizer or light lunch served with a mixed salad or vegetables. Usually use spaghetti, but any type of pasta is good!

Ingredients for 2 people:
about 150 gr. of cooked spaghetti (or advanced)
1 cup of spinach (or two cubes frozen)
1 mozzarella or other cheese
2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese
2 eggs
2 tablespoons oil EVO
salt q.b.
A pinch of Cayenne pepper to taste
Time: 15 minutes 

 

If you have not cooked spaghetti, cook them in salted water along with the spinach, drain and mix with a tablespoon of oil EVO, so not stick.
If you are ready spaghetti, boiled spinach in a little water.
In a bowl beat the eggs with salt, add the grated Parmesan, mozzarella into cubes and if you wnt pepper.
In a pan put a little olive oil and fry the spaghetti, after a couple of minutes, add the mixture with the eggs making mix well, without stirring too much because the egg coagulates quickly.
Cover with a lid and turn the omelette after 4 minutes.
Serve hot.

 
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Chicken Salad

Chicken Salad

Ingredients for 4 people:

• 1 red sweet pepper,
• 3 tomatoes
• 8 fresh or pickled onions
• 1 whole chicken breast
• 2 hard boiled eggs
• 80 gr. salad like lettuce
• ½ lemon
• salt
• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• mayonnaise if you want

Time: 30 minutes

Boneless chicken breast and cut into cubes of about 1 inch.
In a frying pan  put a little oil and cook the chicken and sprinkle it with  a  lemon juice.
Add salt after cooking.
Cook the eggs.
Meanwhile, it cools the chicken, wash the peppers, remove seeds and cut into squares
Clean and wash the tomatoes, remove seeds and cut into four pieces and then in half again.
Wash the lettuce.
Put in a dish or into a large bowl:
lettuce, peppers and chopped tomatoes, finely sliced ​​onions, the chicken  and boiled eggs into slices.
Dress with extra virgin olive oil, salt and if you want a little mayonnaise.
The salad will be tasty if allowed to stand at least half an hour.

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Spring cups!

Spring cups inside

ingredients:

• 8 waffles rice
• 10 asparagus
• 4 pieces of cheese
• 4 eggs
• A pinch of salt

time:

• 20 mins
• Oven at 150 °C (300°F)

Preheat the oven to 150 °C (300°F)
Meanwhile, you can cook the tender parts of asparagus in a frying pan with a little 'olive oil and a clove of crushed garlic and a pinch of salt .

If you are the hardest parts boil for 10 ', whip it and add in the pan. Continue to cook for 5 '.

Take a wafer of rice at a time, place it on a wet cloth and let it soak. When it becomes soft, let it stick to a cup that you can put in an oven previously oiled with a brush. Stack a second wafer. Make it fit snugly and not "collapse" inside.

After preparing 4 cups each with 2 waffles put them in the oven for 3 '.
Now prepare the poached eggs and compose the cups as follows:
let the waffles in the caps (in the meantime, the waffles will become hard), add a little 'of each asparagus, and  the piece of cheese over the egg. A pinch of salt and bake for 2 '.

If you do not want to make poached eggs, you can prepare the cups with asparagus and cheese as explained (you still cook for 3 'the  wafer of rice empty), then put a raw egg to small bowl and wipe it in the oven for 5' or otherwise until it is cooked. Add salt and serve.

The pods, in both cases can be served in cups or removing them gently!

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Poached eggs

the egg floats in water

Ingredients for 4
4 eggs
A pot of water

time:
5 minPut on the stove a pot with water and a tablespoon of white vinegar.

Break an egg into a cup at a time, the yolk must be whole and not broken. When the water boils, lower the heat and slide inside an egg, stirring up the water in a clockwise direction.

The egg white will begin to congeal around the egg. Cook for 4 ', then gently remove the egg with a slotted spoon and continue with the second egg.

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