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Pancetta-Wrapped Radicchio With Balsamic And Onion Pickles

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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 10 ingredients

  1. 1 large red onion -- halved, and thinly sliced
  2. 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
  3. 1/2 cup cold water
  4. 1/4 cup sugar
  5. 4 tablespoons salt
  6. 4 radicchio heads -- quartered
  7. 3/4 pound pancetta -- sliced paper-thin by butcher in long pieces
  8. 8 ounces balsamic vinegar
  9. 2 ounces unsalted butter
  10. salt -- to taste freshly-ground black pepper -- to taste

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. In a metal mixing bowl, stir onion, vinegar, water, sugar and salt and let stand 1 hour.
  2. Wrap each radicchio quarter in two pieces of pancetta and set aside.
  3. Heat a 10- to 12-inch nonstick sauté pan 1 minute over medium heat. Place 8 pieces wrapped radicchio and cook 6 to 8 minutes, until pancetta is browned, turning frequently. Remove to plate in warm oven. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and drain grease from the pan. Repeat process with remaining radicchio.
  4. Pour grease out and add balsamic vinegar and butter. Bring to a boil and reduce by half. Drain onions and place in small piles in center of 4 separate plates. Stack warm radicchio pieces up against onions like a teepee and spoon 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons balsamic sauce around and serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Mixing bowl
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Wooden spoon
  • Colander
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Credit

Recipe By: Mario Batali. Source: MOLTO MARIO with Mario Batali From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # MB-5615). Saved from www.grassrootsrecipes.com (http://www.grassrootsrecipes.com/BillWight/Appetizer_6/Appetizer_6.mxp), file Recipes/www.grassrootsrecipes.com/BillWight/Appetizer_6/Appetizer_6.mxp in the Internet Archive item cooking-recipes (https://archive.org/details/cooking-recipes).

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