SARASOTA, Fla. — Bella Vita Italian Italian Kitchen in Sarasota offers a family recipe in the Chef’s Kitchen.
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In the Chef’s Kitchen at Bella Vita Italian Kitchen, Sarasota
Owner Rocco Mosca offers Nonna’s Phylis Scalzo’s saltimbocca recipe
Chicken breast, pounded and thinned, is base of saltimbocca
Rocco Mosca offers traditional Italian dishes
Owner Rocco Mosca’s recipes come straight from his grandmother –Nonna Phyllis Scalzo.
Saltimbocca from Rocco Mosca’s Nonna
7-8 oz. chicken breast, pounded and thinned
12 oz. chicken stock
1 tbsp. garlic
6 oz. white wine
4 oz. mushrooms, sliced
4 slices of tomato
4 oz. mozzarella
2 tsp. butter
1 tbsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
2 tbsp. flour for dredging and thickening the sauce
Pasta of your choice
It starts with oil in a saucepan enough to cover bottom of pan.
The temperature should be high
Dredge chicken breast, pounded and thinned, in flour.
Place chicken in saucepan.
Cook one minute and flip.
Add mushrooms.
Add chicken stock, wine and garlic.
It should begin to boil- add butter.
Add tomato slices over chicken.
Then layer prosciutto and then cheese.
Finish in oven at 500 degrees, just long enough to melt the cheese and perhaps crisp the exposed prosciutto.
Serve over your favorite pasta.
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