Pasta Milanese Recipes

FLOUNDER MILANESE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F and place a sheet pan in the oven.
• Dry the fish on both sides with paper towels. Combine the flour, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper on a dinner plate. In a low, shallow bowl, whisk the eggs with 1 tablespoon water. Put the bread crumbs on another plate. Dredge the fish on both sides in the seasoned flour and dust off the excess. Dip both sides into the egg mixture and, finally, dredge both sides in the bread crumbs.
• Heat 1 tablespoon butter and 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large (12-inch) saute pan and cook 2 fillets at a time over medium to medium-high heat for 2 to 3 minutes on each side, until cooked through. Transfer the fish in one layer to the sheet pan in the oven. Add more butter and oil and cook the rest of the fillets, transferring them to the sheet pan as they're done. Toss the arugula with enough Lemon Vinaigrette to moisten. Place one fillet on each plate and pile the arugula salad on top. Heat the capers in the saute pan for 30 seconds and sprinkle over the fish and salad. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan, a squeeze of lemon juice, and the fleur de sel. Serve hot.
• In a small bowl or measuring cup, whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper.

PORK MILANESE WITH SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a pan, then fry the garlic for a few secs. Add the chopped tomatoes and balsamic vinegar and bubble for about 15-20 mins until the sauce is thick.
• Meanwhile, lay the pork medallions between two layers of cling film and bash with a rolling pin until they are about 1cm thick. Mix the flour with some seasoning in one bowl, put the egg in another and the breadcrumbs in a third. Dip the pork in the flour, then the egg, then the breadcrumbs. Heat a grill to hot, then cook the pork for 3 mins on each side, until golden and cooked through. Keep warm.
• Cook the pasta following pack instructions. Stir through the tomato sauce and the chopped basil, divide the pasta between 4 plates, put the crispy pork on top and eat immediately.

MACARONI MILANAISE

Steps:

• Set a large pot of heavily salted water over high heat, and allow it to come to a boil.
• Add the pasta to the water, and cook it until it is just shy of tender, according to the instructions on the box.
• Meanwhile, put the ham, mushrooms and tomato purée in a small sauté pan, and pour the Madeira over the top. Cook over medium heat until the liquid has reduced to a glaze, the ham is heated through and the mushrooms are beginning to brown. Turn the heat off under the pan, and set aside.
• Reserve a cup of the pasta water, and drain the pasta well. Return the pasta to the pot, then add the cheeses and butter, and stir to combine. Add the seasonings, and stir some more, adding, if necessary, a little of the reserved pasta water to loosen the pasta and help melt the cheeses. Add the mushroom mixture, and stir to combine. Taste for seasoning. Serve with salad, or as a ''garnish'' for roasted or sautéed lamb.

CHICKEN MILANESE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C).
• Beat eggs with salt and pepper in a shallow dish. Spread flour in another dish and bread crumbs in a third dish.
• Working with one piece at a time, gently press chicken into the flour to coat and shake off the excess flour. Dip into the beaten egg, then press into bread crumbs. Gently toss between your hands so any bread crumbs that haven't stuck can fall away. Place the breaded chicken onto a plate while breading the rest; do not stack.
• Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Pan-fry chicken in batches of 2 or 3 pieces until golden brown and no longer pink in the center, about 2 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer cooked chicken to a baking sheet and keep warm in preheated oven while cooking remaining chicken.
• Serve with lemon wedges.

CHICKEN PASTA MILANO

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, melt butter over low heat.
• Add the minced garlic and cook for about a minute.
• Add tomatoes and 3/4 cup of chicken broth.
• Increase heat to medium and bring mixture to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer uncovered, for about 10 minutes.
• Add cream and bring to a boil again, stirring frequently.
• Simmer over medium heat until sauce is thick.
• Sprinkle salt and pepper over both sides of chicken.
• Heat the olive oil in a skillet, then add chicken and saute until chicken is no longer pink inside.
• (About 4 minutes each side should do it.) Remove chicken from skillet, drain fat from skillet.
• In the same skillet, stir 1/4 cup chicken broth with the pan juices, and bring to a boil; reduce slightly and add to the cream sauce; stir in basil.
• Serve chicken atop the pasta, coat with the cream sauce.

PASTA MILANESE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add anchovies and cook until lightly browned, 1 minute.
• Add onions, fennel and garlic, and sweat until lightly golden, about 10 minutes.
• Add fennel seed, black pepper, red pepper flakes and a few pinches of salt. Cook until fragrant, 1 minute.
• Deglaze pan with white wine, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom, and cook until liquid reduces by one third, 3-5 minutes.
• Crush the tomatoes by hand and add to pot. Simmer sauce, stirring often, until thickened, 45 minutes. Taste and add salt as needed.
• As sauce finishes cooking, boil pasta until al dente. Drain and toss with sauce. Finish pasta with a sprinkle of toasted breadcrumbs and serve.

PORK MILANESE WITH GARLIC SPINCAH RIGATONI

Steps:

• Brown 2 tablespoons of butter in a saute pan. Add the onion and saute then add basil. Next, add the roasted garlic, 2 tablespoons Parmesan and spinach. Add cooked pasta, season with salt and pepper and garnish with Parmesan.
• Butterfly the pork chops and pound them thin between 2 sheets of plastic wrap. Separate milk, flour, seasoned eggs and breadcrumbs into 3 separate bowls. Dip each pork chop in the milk first, then flour next eggs and last the bread crumbs. Saute until golden brown on both sides. Garnish with mesclun salad, a sprig of onion, red wine vinegar juice and olive oil.