Valentina Harris

Cardi al Forno

Baked Cardoons

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Classic Italian Cooking
Classic Italian Cooking

By Valentina Harris

Published 2008

  • About

The strange looking cardoon has a wonderful taste, which belies its bizarre appearance. It can be very stringy, so needs careful preparation before cooking. It is one of those vegetables which improves in flavor after the frost has got to it and, like its cousin the artichoke, it tends to discolor very quickly.

Ingredients

  • 2 lemons, quartered
  • 1¼ lb cardoons
  • 4 tablespoons o

Method

  1. Fill a large bowl with cold water and squeeze the juice of a lemon quarter into it. Place the quartered lemons into the water. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
  2. Remove all the leaves from the cardoons and strip away all the fibrous strings that run through th