Ridicchio Grigliato

Name: Ridicchio Grigliato (Grilled and Baked Radicchio)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 125 g fontina cheese, very thinly cut; salt and pepper; 4 whole radicchio from Treviso (firm to the touch), with a nice pointed root (this is also edible); 4 whole radicchio from Treviso (firm to the touch), with a nice pointed root (this is also edible); salt and pepper; 8 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Grilled and Baked Radicchio

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Antonio Carluccio – The Collection

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2012

About

“Probably the best-known radicchio dish is grilled radicchio, and this is my variation on it. Thanks to the popularity of this vegetable, which is often used in salads, we can also appreciate its culinary versatility, for a huge number of dishes in the last 20 years have been based on it.”

Ingredients

4 whole radicchio from Treviso (firm to the touch), with a nice pointed root (this is also edible)
8 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Europe
Italy
Starter
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the grill to medium and the oven to 190°C/Gas 5.

Remove the old outer leaves from the radicchio, and trim the stems. Cut into two equal parts lengthways. (The radicchio should be at least 20cm long, including the root.) Brush the halves with olive oil, salt and pepper,