RAVIOLI CARUSS

Anchovies are one of the smallest fish to put on your plate, with a pleasant, intense and unmistakable taste.

In Piemonte it is the most common fish in the recipes of the region, but why? Piemonte does not have the sea, but an imaginative story with a real background takes us back in time, when handcarts were still used to transport things from one side to the other.

During the long winter period the head of the family went to Liguria region and bought anchovies with a "caruss", characteristic wooden handcarts that are particularly light but very robust. In Liguria they loaded barrels full of anchovies and then went around Piemonte looking for buyers and it was undoubtedly a difficult and heavy job because sometimes that seller could cover more than thirty kilometers in one day!

In those days it was common to eat anchovies squeezed between two slices of bread, but today Pasta Cecchi used them in Ravioli together matching other ingredients for an elegant and very tasty recipe.

Simple, soft and delicate sauces find their balance by marrying these elegant Anchovy Ravioli.

Cook 2.5 minutes the ravioli in hot water and then collect them with a skimmer. Toss them in the pan for 1 minute with your sauce. Turn them over carefully so as not to break them (or let them jump with the movements of the wrist).

SUGGESTED RECIPES:

• Butter with lemon flavor;
• With pesto (carefull with the garlic)
• With eggplant sauce (alla Norma)
• Classic Tomato Sauce

Ingredients: fresh ricotta, durum wheat, wheat flour, egg, anchovies, water, Parmigiano Reggiano, Grana Padano, tomato puree, capers, pistachios, salt, black pepper.

Allergen: gluten, wheat, egg, cow's milk, lactose, nuts, fish. May contain traces of celery.

DID YOU KNOW?

Anchovies have great nutritional properties: they are rich in omega-3, polyunsaturated fatty acids, with well known beneficial properties for the body (from those of the strengthening the immune system until that one anti aging cells, of those anti-cholesterol until that of modulation of the nervous system), but also rich in protein with a high nutritional value, B vitamins and vitamin E. Among the minerals contained especially selenium (50% of the daily dose) and calcium, thenphosphorus,potassiumandiron.