Monday I want to do a beautiful special
to really make use of a fantastic
Italian greens called Chima big active
it’s part of the Brooklyn family almost
let me just cut it in half it almost
looks like a kind of sprouting broccoli
and it’s the same family so if you look
in here look at that you can see you’ve
got the bud you’ve got the stalks and
the leaves and they’re all usable and
they’re all absolutely delicious so what
I want to do is really bring out the
flavor in the team of the wrap a we’re
going to do garlic black olives and
we’ve got some induye here now just
check this out
James Italian we really do try and work
with some incredible suppliers and we
work with an amazing artisan british
cure house called cobble and cure and
they’ve made window for us and it’s
incredible induye traditionally comes
from Basilicata or Calabria should I say
it’s absolutely famous it’s it’s kind of
like a soft salami with those amazing
Calabrian chilies and spices and it’s a
real delicacy people love it you can
have it on pizzas you can have it on
bruschetta you can kind of cook seafood
in it surf and turf but today we’re
gonna do it without broccoli and we’re
gonna do a lovely pasta
Qasr Archy again another southern
Italian pasta that we make every single
day at James Italian if you have a
little look here it’s almost like a
little fusilli right and you can see the
little twists and turns that’s just
gonna aid catching hold of sauce so it’s
gonna be really really good so we’re
going to make it super quick so I’m
gonna take a nice handful of our kaiser
Archie straight in to our cooker there
so we’re going to cook that for three
minutes because it’s a fresh pasta but
cook it according to package
instructions if you’re gonna do that at
home and then what I want to do is show
you that marriage that beautiful
marriage of the garlic the olives the
chemotherapy and what I’ve done is I’ve
taken this one do you and I’ve beaten it
up with a fork and I’ve let it down with
olive oil so it will melt straight away
I’m gonna try and show you here I’ve got
a hot pan the past is in right we’re
gonna go in first of all with the induye
and what’s really nice is the minute
that you heat that up
it starts to melt and the flavors and
the spices they really start to come out
can you see how the oil is changing
color and then to that we can add the
garlic olives you get that nice sort of
briny seasoning the broccoli goes in and
then will start to just fry that off you
want to put a little bit of color on to
the garlic keep moving it around it’s
quite nice you can hear it sort of
crackle we do not want to get the garlic
dark okay we want the garlic to remain
lightly golden so just just fry that off
and then you want one nice big spoon of
your passata
and I’m gonna use a little bit of that
cooking water which is really nice just
to sort of breaking the frying you know
we let that just sort of almost braise
away just gently gently bring out the
flavors from the olives you just had a
couple of minutes of just simmering
there like that which is beautiful
one of the joys of making a stir every
single day in the restaurants is you can
change the shapes you can flavor the
pastas you know there’s so many
different things you can do with it so
toss it and you want to kind of you want
to feed that pasta with a little cooking
water just to make it elegant and light
look at that now all I need to do now is
season it with some parmesan so take a
nice chunk of parmesan give it a few
nice
look at that and I like just to do it on
the top like this as the pan just begins
to cool down and it’s just beautiful
flavors so just plate that up it’s dark
it’s rich you’re gonna get the sweetness
from the tomatoes the bitterness from
the team of their appe the warmth from
the chili and that lovely seasoning from
the olives it’s a really beautiful
comfort food dish it’s on the specials
today which is very exciting and then at
the table I’ll be asking the waiters to
finish with a little parmesan to order
and I hope you really enjoy it so there
you go Qasr Archie with chemotherapy
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