By: Rossella Rago, Cooking with Nonna
Ingredients
Serves: 1
For the Artichokes:
- 10 baby artichokes
- 4 cloves of garlic – very finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley – very finely chopped
- Extra virgin olive oil
- 1 lemon
- Salt & pepper
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Directions
- Clean the artichokes by removing the outer leaves until you reach the yellow, light green part of the artichoke.
- Cut the top part of the leaves (about 3/4 inch), trim about 1/4 inch of the stem and peel the stem.
- Cut the artichoke in half and place them in a bowl of water in which you have squeezed the juice of one lemon.
- Clean all your artichokes and keep them in water for about 10 mins.
- Put a very light coat of EV olive oil in a cast iron pan and let it get very hot.
- Coat each piece of artichoke with a very thin film of EV olive oil and put them in the pan facing down.
- Cook them for about 5-6 mins. or until they begin to turn brown.
- Turn them over and cook them for another about 7-8 mins.
- Put all the artichokes in a platter facing up.
- In a little bowl, put 5 Tbs of EV olive oil and add the garlic and parsley.
- Mix well and with a teaspoon spread over each artichoke.
- Sprinkle with salt and fresh black pepper.
