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This Italian side-dish features Lemons. It delivers bright, zesty notes. A reliable recipe that works well for everyday cooking. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.
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How To Clean Artichokes-Roman Jewish Style
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This Italian side-dish features Lemons. It delivers bright, zesty notes. A reliable recipe that works well for everyday cooking. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.Ingredients
Directions
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Artichokes Have a large bowl at hand, containing cold water and the juice of two lemon with the four halves of the rind.
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Keep the artichokes in another bowl of cold water while you are working on them.
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Take one artichoke at a time, drain it, and pull off and discard the smallest outer leaves.
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Holding the artichoke with its bottom toward the little finger of your hand, tilt the top away from you, and holding a small sharp knife tightly with your right hand, insert its tip, one leaf deep, into the tender, lighter part of the leaves.
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Keeping your right hand steady, slowly rotate the artichoke with your left hand so the bottom moves in a clockwise direction, and
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cut upward in a spiral.
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The tough part of each leaf will fall off, while the tender edible part remains attached.
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Peel the green
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layer off the bottom and stem, and then drop the trimmed artichoke into the lemon juice until you are ready to
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cook .
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This operation requires some practice; you will know if you have mastered this technique when the artichoke thus cleaned looks more or less like the one you started with, only smaller and whiter.
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If you are not ready to use the artichokes immediately after you have cleaned them, try to keep them completely submerged in lemon water.
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This is not easy.
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Artichokes are very buoyant and float to the surface making it difficult to keep them covered.
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An inverted plate, just a bit smaller in diameter than the bowl,
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place over the artichokes, will keep them below the surface.
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Another way is to crowd them inside a glass jar and cover them with the lemon water.
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If you plan to leave them at this stage for more than a hour or so, you must
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refrigerate them, but it is not advisable to keep artichokes this way for more than a few hours.
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Lemon is used to prevent discoloration; on the other hand, the lemon will cause the artichokes to spoil very quickly."
Nutrition Facts
Servings 1
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 8.4kcal
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 0.1g1%
- Saturated Fat 0.0g0%
- Cholesterol 0.0mg0%
- Sodium 0.6mg1%
- Total Carbohydrate 2.6g1%
- Dietary Fiber 0.8g4%
- Sugars 0.7g
- Protein 0.3g1%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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