Piedmontese bagna cauda sauce with fresh vegetables

Difficulty: low

Preparation: 10 minutes

Cooking: 10 minutes

Doses for: 6 people

Cost: low

The bagna “caoda sauce” (which in Piedmontese dialect means “hot sauce”) is a typical product of Piedmontese cuisine, whose main ingredients are oil, garlic and anchovies. It is a simple but very tasty recipe, perfect to be served as a main course at dinner or as an appetizer. The bagna caoda is used as a sauce for fresh seasonal vegetables, mostly autumn, and is served in special crock or copper pans placed on small stoves that keep the sauce warm. The history of this sauce dates back to the Middle Ages, when Piedmontese merchants brought their own oil and anchovies home from their travels to other regions.

Ingredients

  • 6 boiled potatoes
  • 1 thistle
  • 6 carrots
  • 6 stalks of celery

Preparation

Heat the bagna caoda sauce on the stove and in the meantime prepare the vegetables. After washing them, peel and cook the potatoes in boiling water, then cut them into large wedges. Wash the peppers, remove the seeds and slice into strips. Clean and cut the spring onions in two along the length of the stem, clean the thistles by removing the external filaments, do the same with the celery stalks. Then peel the carrots and cut them into 4 strips, then leave them in cold water until ready to serve. Thoroughly wash the cauliflower half, boil it and cut it into small pieces. In addition to the vegetables proposed here, it is possible to add many other less traditional ones and taste the bagna caoda in different variations. Finally, arrange the vegetables on a large serving dish and place the earthenware bowl of the wet tail in the center. Serve very hot.

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