Crostini Two Ways: Tomato & Ricotta and Kale w/ Fontina

Simple, easy and delicious! Crostini and bruschette are part of everybody’s vocabulary and table, and these crostini are tasty and easy to make. The good part is that you can prepare them all in advance and just pop them in the oven when your guests arrive. When making this crostini, or for that matter any crostini or bruschetta, try using whole–grain or whole–wheat bread. My grandmother always used a multigrain bread that contained some bran. So, if you are thinking Italian, think rustic and healthy. Buon Gusto! #LidiasRecipes #LidiasItaly #LidiasKitchen #LidiaBastianich #ItalianFood #25YearsofLidia #FromLidiasTableToYours #LidiasSoundtrack

Kale and Fontina Crostini

TOMATO AND RICOTTA CROSTINI

00:00 – Intro
00:10 – Preparing the Bread
00:40 – Preparing the Kale topping
02:40 – Preparing the Tomato topping
04:44 – Ask Lidia – Bruschetta
07:05 – Plating and Tasting!

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crostini two ways I’m in my garden beautiful doing some crostini crostini are easy and a great way to sort of entertain when you have people coming and visiting crostini needs toasted bread a nice country bread and you go right into a pan like that and this is how do you weigh down your bread so it really makes full contact with the pan and gets nice and brown with another pan a little smaller just on top of it so a little bit of oil I toasted it on one side and let’s get the other side going now in the meantime I am going to make a topping for one crostini and that’s going to be with bacon let me just cut it in small lardons if you will so could you do it without bacon if you don’t want bacon absolutely just keep in mind that we’re finishing off with cheese with Fontina cheese and with Rico that cheese so just a drop of oil to get things going okay and kale onions and bacon that sounds pretty good and it’s easy again you know you can use other greens you can use escaro you can use broccoli veraa you can use spinach you can use everything kale it’s great it’s you know very nutritious for you pull it right off the stem just like that and voila shred it and you know you can do this just as a vegetable okay you can do it just with oil and garlic and smother it so the bacon is nice and caramelized let’s remove some of the fat we’ll leave just a little bit because we have to cook the kale the onion so let me throw in the [Music] onion let’s that’s gets wilted and so now let’s throw in the kale okay okay I will season it a little bit with salt now the bacon has some salt so keep that in mind little peperoncino we want a little bit of spiciness okay and just a little bit of water to begin to wilt this I am going to cover it so it can raise the temperature so it Cooks quicker so the next crostini we have is as simple as it gets and especially in the summertime when you have the ripe cherry tomatoes the cranberry Tomatoes whatever you have that’s nice cut it in quarters because I wanted to stay on the crostino itself just like that here we go and I’m going to add to that some Capers and it’s delicious it has kind of that almondy flavor so it’s great with seafood and it’s great on crostini because it brings you that extra Dimension Tomatoes peers like that so here let me get some basil okay and I don’t want to over over chop the basil either put a little bit of salt and oil H so we’re almost ready to assemble our first crostino and six of each and that’ll be fine I kind of like how it looks just like a salad on bread and if you feel that these are going to fall off you can chop them smaller I kind of like this look and once you let them sort of rest there they will seep into the bread the juiciness so just just take a doop orot and put it right on top of let’s check these the kale let me just Wilt it down like that lower it a little bit so okay so this is one crostino let me now finish this other crostino and I have here some pontina cheese which will go on top so in the pan while the bread is almost toasted on the bottom I’m going to top it with Fontina cheese and the Fontina cheese should melt on top right in the pan the heat of the pan will melt the Fontina cheese and we’ll have a great crostino okay this is good let me put a cover on so that this the heat really melts the cheese let me clean up here and then we’ll be ready to Plate welcome back to my little Library this is where we share a lot of my knowledge with your questions here I have Sherie and Karen we were looking at one of your your books and we found a recipe that we would like to try but we have a couple questions about it the Bretta with Puda and figs and it looks amazing but in order to cut down on sugar we were wondering if we could eliminate the honey from the balsamic reduction additionally we would like a recommendation to go with it um with wine thanks lyia thank you all right the brusketa is quite easy the Fig brusketa and pruto and yes absolutely you can eliminate the honey what you would need to do most likely is just to cook it a little longer so it gets nice and syrupy and honey usually emulsifies things and ties things and makes them viscous in this case just cook it a little longer and I think the wine that goes really good with that is the friulano it is light at the same time complex it has an almond finish and it has a nice acidity and would pair beautifully with this brus have fun ladies have a good wine to go with that brusa okay great all right this christinis are done I have some fig leaves in Lydia’s Garden it’s very much like Italy the grape trussle and figs and my grandmother whenever she would serve cheese or something she would have a board and if the board was the board that she chopped everything on she would cover it with fig leaves like that or grape leaves for that matter and that looks pretty nice so if you have some good leaves in your garden make it happen so here it is all right look at this three Nestles these in right right here like that mhm and maybe this one I’ll put right in the middle like that and that looks ni I’m going to Accent on the basil right here now let’s Lydia kind of cut these and taste them the kale crostino m delosa that’s pronounced and the bacon and the onions and everything and that this should be refreshed M these are two great recipes easy to make get the Lydia flavor in your house