Traditional Antipasto

Thursday August 9th, 2007 12:02PM

For each serving,

  • Half a hardboiled egg
  • 1 slice of salami
  • 2 or 3 drained sardines
  • ¼ tin of tuna fish, drained and sprinkled with lemon juice
  • A cooked cold vegetable: asparagus tips, green beans, beets
  • Tomato slice
  • Celery stalk
  • Radishes, green and black olives, Greek olives
  • Pimiento section, crisscrossed with 2 anchovy fillets
  • Lentils, or chickpeas (Garbanzo beans) – 1 T draine

Arrange the components attractively, starting with a table­spoon of lentils in the center, covered with pimiento and anchovy fillets, and surrounded by sardines next to salami, and tuna fish next to tomato slice, with the egg, celery, and gar­nishes used for color accents, and so on.

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