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Sauce, eggs and Frattau Bread: a recipe from Sardinia

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In Sardinian, Carta da Musica aka Frattau Bread is a very fine crisp kind of bread baked by each family  in a wood oven at 4 in the morning on the chosen day. Frattau Bread lasts many days.

Eggs and Frattau Bread
 
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Recipe type: Starter
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 5
Ingredients
  • Carta da Musica - Frattau bread - 6 pieces
  • Eggs 4
  • Vinegar 3 spoonfuls
  • Grated Pecorino cheese 8 spoonfuls
  • Ripe tomatoes 1 kg.
  • Sugar (for the sauce)
  • Onion ½
  • Extra-virgin olive oil 1 dl.
  • Saffron
  • Basil 4 leaves
  • Salt
  • Pepper
Instructions
  1. The sauce:
  2. Put the onion in the oil in a pot and add the salt. Dissolve the saffron in hot water and add it to the pot. Cook until it becomes transparent.
  3. Peel the tomatoes and add them to the pot together with the sugar and the basil.
  4. Cook this sauce at a low heat (ca. 30 minutes) and add salt and pepper to taste.
  5. Poach the eggs in 2 litres of water with the vinegar. When they are ready, put them aside and keep them warm.
  6. The Frattau bread:
  7. You need to break it into pieces and put them into a large bowl with a little warm salted water.
  8. Put a spoon of the tomato sauce and a spoon of grated cheese on each plate.
  9. When the bread has softened, put it on the plates adding sauce and cheese. Serve at table with the eggs on top.
  10. Serve with Cannonau, a dry, ruby red Sardinian typical wine.

 

Pane Frattau, a tasty bread tradition from Sardinia

Sardinia has a hostile coastlands with difficult landing places. So fish is spread but the most famous dish is lamb and suckling pig, goat and sheep cheeses and the famous “carta da musica” with pane frattau. The wonderful beaches and the villages between the rocks fascinates the tourists who have a taste also for the local cuisine based on a healthy local production. Let’s merge in the typical dish called carta da musica with pane frattau, a very fine and bread. It has been made by each family in the island in an oven burning wood . The family members get up at 4am to make this bread, which lasts long, for many days. It can be used for making many different recipes as the following easy one.

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 Eggs
  • 3 spoons Vinegar
  • 8 spoons Grated Pecorino cheese
  • 1 kg.Ripe tomatoes
  • Sugar
  • 1/2 Onion
  • Extra-virgin olive oil
  • Saffron
  • 5 leaves Basil
  • Salt
  • Pepper
 HOW TO MAKE IT
  1. Sauté the onions in 2 litres of water together with the vinegar. When ready, put it aside and keep it warm.
  2. Break the bread Pane Frattau into different and small pieces and put it into a large bowl together with warm salted water.
  3. Put a spoon of the tomato sauce and half a spoon of grated cheese on each plate. Then, as soon as the bread has been softened, put it on the plates with sauce and cheese on top, making also many layers.
  4. Serve with the eggs aside.

Cannonau come along to this dish. It is a famous dry Sardinian  red wine.