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We are already in the season of calçots and to enjoy it with the family, therefore, we present our calçots sauce for this day. We have three formats and you can find them in our online store on the Association’s website

Today we present a recipe that will surprise your guests with this little appetizer, we used our organic orange marmalade.

Ingredients for 4 people:

• 8 sheets of phyllo pastry
• 8 slices of goat cheese in small curler
• 1 medium onion
• Organic orange marmalade HORTUS APRODISCAe
• Extra virgin olive oil

For the garnish:

• 1 large potato cooked
• 50 ml cream
• Grated cheese
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Pepper
• Salt

Elaboration:

1. Put to soften in a skillet over low heat, with two tablespoons of olive oil cut in julienne scallions. Stir occasionally until we see the onion with a light golden color.
2. At that time we add to the pan two tablespoons of organic orange marmalade. Mix until both ingredients are well integrated and let them make a couple of minutes over low heat. We turn off and remove the pan from the heat.
3. As we prepare the lining grinding a baked potato in a bowl. Add the grated hard cheese, cream and a little oil. Salt and pepper and mix until a smooth paste and smooth. Reserve.
4. We stretch a sheet of phyllo dough and place on a corner a slice of goat cheese in small curler.
5. With a teaspoon we catch a bit chive and organic orange marmalade and place it on top of cheese.
6. We roll up the cheese with phyllo on a regular basis. Fill the rest of the sheets following the steps above.
7. Fry in a skillet over medium heat with extra virgin olive oil.
8. When we have the crispy goat cheese with organic orange marmalade brown on all sides, we draw on absorbent paper.
9. We serve over mashed potatoes and cheese, making crispy cheese garrison.

Excerpted and adapted from: http://ow.ly/Zcjyi 

Where can you find our organic orange marmalade?

• Online Store Hortus
• Hortus Network

If you are of those who do not have time to cook and want a simple and delicious dish …. today we present a recipe with fresh pasta that I am sure you will like it.

Ingredients:

• Goat cheese ravioli with carrot of Fundació Onyar
• Organic pesto sauce Hortus Aprodiscae
• Pine nuts for garnish

Preparation:

1. The fresh pasta Onyar la Selva is stuffed with goat cheese, onion, carrot, oil, salt and breadcrumbs, just boil 2 minutes.
2. Now you can serve the dish accompanied with pesto eco room to taste and a few pine nuts for garnish.

Photography adapted from: ow.ly/YVkyY

Where can you find pasta and pesto sauce?

• Online Store Hortus
• Hortus Network

Today we present a super easy and healthy recipe, it is a plate of grilled vegetables accompanied by our organic romesco sauce.

Ingredients: 

• Zucchini
• Red pepper
• Green pepper
• Onion
• Organic romesco sauce Hortus Aprodiscae

Elaboration:

1. No need to explain a lot of things, just make grilled vegetables, baked or pan and accompany them with organic romesco sauce.

Excerpted and adapted from: http://ow.ly/Y47Ym

Where can you find our romesco sauce?

• Online Store Hortus
• Hortus Network

Today we present a traditional dish of Catalan cuisine, ideal for autumn with input from the cold and is made with organic whithe onion “sofrito” as a culinary base.

Ingredients for 4 people:

• 1 rabbit farm 1 kg and 200 g approx. purchased clean
• 3 large tomatoes
• 3 potatoes
• 40 g butter
• 4 tablespoons of Organic white onion “sofrito” Hortus Aprodiscae
• Half a glass of water and half a glass of white wine
• 6 cloves of garlic
• Laurel
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Salt

Preparation:

1. We wash the potatoes and introduced into a pot unpeeled. Cover with water and salt, cover the pot and simmer for 20 minutes. Let them temper in the same cooking water.
2. While still hot inside, peel and pass through a food mill over the butter at room temperature. Add salt and pepper, mix homogeneously and reserve the puree.
3. Cut the rabbit into pieces keeping the shoulders and thighs whole, in a clay pot with a little oil gilded pieces of rabbit.
4. Once a golden, about 10 minutes. The reserve. In the same pan and oil add the tomatoes cut into cubes without skin and seeds and whole garlic slices.
5. Stir a little. And then we pour the water, wine, bay leaves and rabbit we had booked.
6. Cover the pan and let simmer about 45 minutes. During we are stirring and let’s see if we need to add a little water.
7. In parallel, add spoonfuls of fried organic white onion “sofrito”, and leave about 15 minutes.
8. We can serve the dish accompanied by mashed potatoes.

Excerpted and adapted from and photograph: http://ow.ly/TQDx8  http://ow.ly/TQDNK

Where can you find our organic white onion “sofrito”?

• Hortus Store  (Montblanc)
• Hortus Network