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SARDE ALLA BRACE: BARBECUED SARDINES



Sarde Alla Brace: Barbecued Sardines image

Provided by Food Network

Time 1h22m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 2

24 fresh sardines, cleaned
Sea salt, to season

Steps:

  • Lightly grease the grill grates and heat the grill. Season the sardines with salt. Carefully thread the sardines onto a skewer, making sure all the spines line up on 1 side of the skewer. Place the skewers, spine-side down on the grill. Gently turn the skewers over only once. This way, when you turn the skewers over, the spines will keep the sardines from breaking apart and falling off the skewers.
  • Cook for few minutes on each side and serve immediately.

SCAMORZA ALLA BRACE



Scamorza alla Brace image

There is a simple sort of glory about handmade scamorza (a semifresh cow's milk cheese very much like mozzarella) charred over a wood fire, all plumped, swollen, its skin blistered black and gold and barely able to contain its little paunch of seething cream. Anointed with olio santo and taken with oven-toasted bread, it can make for a fine little supper, a sublime one, even, if the cheese is genuine.

Yield serves 2

Number Of Ingredients 2

2 whole scamorza or caciocavallo, smoked or unsmoked (approximately 8 to 10 ounces each)
Olio santo (page 155)

Steps:

  • Build a wood fire-indoors or out-and when the embers are red/white-hot, place the cheeses, cut in half, over an oiled grate. Grill the cheeses until a golden skin forms before turning them gently with a spatula and roasting the other side to a dark, golden color. Transfer the roasted cheeses to a plate and anoint them with tears of the olio santo, presenting them with chunks of good bread that were toasted alongside them. The light of a candle and a jug of good red wine finish the tableau.

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