Fritto di Mare e Monti

Name: Fritto di Mare e Monti (Fried Seafood and Mushrooms)
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 lemons, quartered; olive oil, for deep-frying; 2 eggs, beaten; plain flour, for dusting; 100 g dried breadcrumbs; 100 g squid or small octopus; 100 g squid or small octopus; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; 150 g fresh ceps; 100 g raw shrimps; 100 g raw small prawns; 100 g whitebait; 100 g St George’s mushrooms

Fried Seafood and Mushrooms

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Antonio Carluccio – The Collection

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2012

About

“In Italy, dishes that contain seafood and other ingredients are often cooked together to produce an interesting contrast This recipe is a perfect combination of ingredients from the sea and earth. It would be fantastic eaten with an aperitif, but also as a light first course accompanied by a green salad.”

Ingredients

100 g St George’s mushrooms
150 g fresh ceps
100 g

Europe
Italy
Fish course
Starter
Pescatarian

Method

Clean the mushrooms and cut the larger ones in halves or quarters. Prepare all the seafood, cleaning and shelling as appropriate.

Season the beaten eggs, and heat the olive oil in a pan to 180-190°C, until a cube of bread dropped in it browns in 30 seconds.

Dip the mushrooms first in the eggs, then roll in the breadcrumbs. Fry in the hot oil until golden, then remove, drain on k