Delizioso! Italian Salmon Carpaccio

Italians seem to possess an amazingly strong passion for food, much more so than the rest of the world.

There is a really great site, Italian Food Net, which serves up delicious authentic Italian recipe videos.  Their chefs speak Italian in the clips,  but they have done such a wonderful job with the subtitles and ingredient conversions that the recipes are simple to follow.

Some recipes are incredibly simple to make but somehow give the impression that you’ve spent hours slaving over them.   This would be one of those! In the video, chef Alessandro prepares an Italian salmon carpaccio with oranges served over arugula.  Head over to their site to view the written recipe, browse around a bit and pretend you’re a student in an Italian culinary school!

Tiny bites of ingredient education:

Carpaccio is defined as an appetizer using thinly sliced raw fish or meat.
The peppercorns used in the recipe are brined, Whole Foods should have them, you may need to look in the  area where jarred pickles are.
The recipe calls for the greens “rocket”, and rocket = arugula!

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