Fritto Misto alla Piemontese

Name: Fritto Misto alla Piemontese (Piedmontese Mixed Fried Surprise)
Yield: For 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 200 g (7 oz) beef fillet in thin escalopes, sliced; 200 g (7 oz) beef fillet in thin escalopes, sliced; 2 artichoke hearts, (see carciofo), thinly sliced; 1 aubergine, thinly sliced; 6 lamb cutlets; 200 g (7 oz) calves’ liver, thinly sliced; 200 g (7 oz) chicken breast in thin escalopes, sliced; 200 g (7 oz) chicken breast in thin escalopes, sliced; seasoned flour for dusting; olive oil for frying; lemon wedges, to serve; 1 cardoon (see cardo), peeled, lightly blanched and thinly sliced (optional); 2 crisp eating apples, peeled, cored and thickly sliced; 12 amaretti biscuits; 4 eggs, beaten

Piedmontese Mixed Fried Surprise

Preparation info

For
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Carluccio's Complete Italian Food

By Antonio Carluccio and Priscilla Carluccio

Published 1997

About

It is said that this very typical Piedmontese dish should consist of at least 13 different ingredients, but its true afficionados prefer at least 17 or 18 meats of all types, vegetables, even biscuits and fruit.

Ingredients

6 lamb cutlets
200 g (7 oz) calves’ liver, thinly sliced

Europe
Italy
Piedmont
Main course
Mediterranean

Method

Leave the lamb cutlets on the bone but beat out the meat until thin. Dust all the meat and vegetables, the apples and amaretti biscuits with flour and then coat them in the beaten egg. Heat a good layer of olive oil in a large frying pan and shallow-fry everything until golden brown, starting with the vegetables, then the apples and biscuits and finally the meat. Serve straight away, with lemon