Roman Spring Vegetable Casserole with Artichokes, Peas, Fava Beans, and Romaine Lettuce

La Vignarola

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  • For

    8

    persons
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Marcella Hazan

Published 1997

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Any moderately adept, reasonably patient, and attentive cook can follow directions and achieve complexity by complex means. The very greatest cooking, however, attains complexity through the most transparently simple means. Vignarola, a Roman dish in which the flavors of several spring vegetables are mingled and magically transmuted, and a startlingly similar Sicilian preparation, frittedda, are, to my mind, products of the very greatest cooking.

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