Best 3 Neopolitan Recipes

PASTA NEOPOLITAN

Steps:

• Pour 2 tablespoons olive oil in a skillet on medium heat and saute half of the crushed garlic in the oil along with 1 teaspoon basil and 1 teaspoon oregano. Add the tomatoes, a cup at a time, to the skillet. Once all the tomatoes are in the pan, allow them to reduce by a fourth.
• In a separate pan, cook the chicken with remaining oil, crushed garlic, basil, and oregano. Cook until chicken is brown. Set the pan aside but do not discard any liquid that may be in the pan.
• Once the tomato broth mixture has reduced, add the chicken, chicken broth and juice from the olives to the pan and allow it to continue to cook. In total, the tomato mixture will cook for approximately 1 hour. In a large stockpot, bring water to a boil in order to cook the pasta. Add salt and the pasta and cook until al dente or approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Drain the pasta in a colander and place in a large bowl. Add the finished tomato and chicken sauce to the pasta mix and serve.
• Serve with fresh grated Romano and sliced black olives.

LAYERED NEOPOLITAN SQUARES

Steps:

• Bottom: Mix the 4 first ingredients together. Put in a greased 9x9 baking pan (grease the sides also). Cook in the oven at 350 F for 10 minutes.
• Second Layer: In a clean bowl, mix coconut and condensed milk. Spread this mixture on the bottom, in the pan. Cook in the oven at 350 F for 20 minutes, or until the cookie begins to golden on the sides. Let cool before icing.
• Icing: Beat all ingredients of the icing together, adding juice, if needed to have a good consistency. Put the icing on the cold cookie. Put in an hermetic container and let rest at least one day to let the cookie soften. You can eat the squares the same day but they're harder to cut when fresh.

NEOPOLITAN STYLE RAGU

Steps:

• 1. Season the pork with 1 t salt and pepper. 2. In a food processor, chop together parsley, onions, garlic, pancetta and prosciutto to make a very coarse paste. 3. Heat olive oil in a Dutch oven over medium-low heat. Add seasoning paste and another t salt and cook until the paste is fragrant and no more liquid appears when it is stirred, about 7 minutes. 4. Add pork roast, cover and reduce the heat to low. Cook, turning every 15 min until meat is lightly browned and onions have begun to color, about 1 hour. 5. Add red wine, loosely cover and continue cooking until wine reduces to a thick sauce, about 1 hour, stirring occasionally. If, after 1 hour and 15 minutes, wine has not reduced sufficiently, remove the roast to a plate, increase heat to medium-high and cook sauce until it thickens. 6. Over low heat, stir in tomato paste, 2 or 3 T at a time, stirring in each addition until it mixes into the sauce and darkens to a brick color. Stir in crushed tomatoes, return roast to the pan if previously removed, and cover and continue to cook, turning meat every 30 minutes and stirring the sauce until meat is tender enough to be easily pierced with a meat fork, 2 to 2 1/2 hours. If sauce dries out too much and meat begins to stick to the bottom of the pan, stir in a T or two of water. 7. Remove roast to a plate and keep warm until ready to serve. Crumble Italian sausage into sauce and cook until sauce is extremely dark, unctuous, shiny and thick, stirring occasionally, about another hour. (The dish can be prepared to this point and refrigerated overnight.) 8. Cook pasta in plenty of rapidly boiling, heavily salted water. 9. When the pasta is cooked but still slightly chewy, drain it and toss it in a bowl with the butter. Spoon over half of the sauce and toss just to coat lightly. Transfer to a serving bowl and spoon more sauce over the top. Sprinkle over the Parmigiano-Reggiano and pass more on the side.