Crostini alla romana
Roman style crutons
SCrostini alla romana is simple but very tasty snack. You only need butter, anchovies, mozzarella and bread. Four ingredients that blend perfectly for simple but amazing roman style croutons, perfect as an appetizer of a rustic and informal dinner or to cheer up an aperitif with friends.
If you want to make this 100% original, you need provatura cheese, a firm mozzarella like chese, but you can perfectly replace it with regular mozzarella.
This snack also goes under the names ‘Crostini con provatura e alici’ or ‘crostini acciughe’. There are also variations over the theme, and other regions might call this dish their own.
Ingredients
4 persons
Cooking time : 20 min.
4 persons
- 8 slices of loaf bread
- 300 gr provatura or mozzarella cheese
- 8 anchovies in oil
- 20g butter
- Salt and Pepper
Rustic and very roman
Arrange the slizes of bread in a baking tray. Cut slizes of the cheese and arrange evenly on top of the bread pieces
Bake in a hot oven at 200 ° for about twenty minutes, or until the cheese have melted.
Meanwhile, rinse the anchovies and chop them. Put the butter in a pan, turn on the heat and melt them over low heat.
When the croutons is ready, pour over the anchovy sauce.
Season with salt and pepper, but remember the anchovies are pretty salty already.
Serve your roman style crutons nice and warm.
Tips
- Provature cheese might be close to impossible to get outside of Lazio, not to say outside Italy. Use mozzarella instead, and preferably the firmer version sold in blocks.
- You can drizzle a bit of herbs over the croutons, for a nicer look, I used a bit of parsley on the picture above