Antipasti recipes and Antipasti food : SBS Food

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Take a leaf from the Italian playbook with these small bites meant for grazing. It's effortless entertaining. Buon appetito!

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27 Jun 2022 - 3:07pm

Gluten-free focaccia

You can use your favourite toppings and cheeses to make this gluten free bread all your own.

Italian

Crostini with mackerel, olives and pine nuts

I had something like this in a humble bàcaro and wine shop called Cantina Aziende Agricole while on my way to meet friends on the busy fondamenta just over the...

Italian

Sweet-and-sour fried sardines

My favourite of all of Venice’s cicchetti is also among the most classic on offer at any bàcaro.

Italian

Fried cheese rounds

These delicious discs of fried creamy cheese are irresistible. I read about these cicchetti in Mariù Salvatori de Zuliani’s Venetian book and couldn’t resist the...

Modern Australian

Charred octopus and capers

Add the salty punch of crisp capers to this grilled octopus dish.

Spanish

Pickled quail

Pickled quail are great to have hanging around the fridge and they will liven up many a dish.

Italian

'Popped' tomatoes

A simple way of eating cherry tomatoes to allow the heat to ‘pop’ their skins and release their juices, which mingle deliciously with the garlicky olive oil and...

Italian

Zucchini scapece

When zucchini is in season, it's perfect for this simple dish of fried rounds of zucchini with vinegar and mint. Serve it as an antipasto or as a side dish to...

Italian

Piadina Romagnola

Italia's wrap, this flatbread is toasted and filled with antipasti like prosciutto, stone fruit, rocket and cheeses for a burst of diverse flavours.

Argentinian

Eggplant escabeche

‘Escabeche’ refers to the process of pickling, an extremely old technique brought to Argentina by the Spanish. Escabeche can be made from almost any produce as...

Italian

My mother's salted black olives

The olives for this recipe are picked, preferably from your own tree, when the fruit is deep purple and still firm.

Italian

Globe artichokes in oil

These artichokes in oil are excellent quartered and used in a salad or as part of an antipasto platter.

Italian

Pietro's homemade ricotta

You do not need to have access to a cow to make fresh ricotta. And there are many different ways of curdling the milk, such as lemon juice.

Middle Eastern

Mezze cake

This is one of the finest dishes we’ve ever made or eaten, with every mouthful the perfect combination of flavours you could hope to get in a Middle Eastern...