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Shaved Fennel, Porcini, and Pecorino

Autentico_Rolando Beramendi_Photo Laurie Frankel_Shaved Fennel Porcini Pecorino_recipe

Segato Di Finocchio, Funghi E Pecorino Di Pienza

The Italian verb segare means “to saw” (as in cutting wood). The success of this recipe relies heavily on cutting (sawing) the ingredients into equal-size pieces as well as using equal amounts of each. The ingredients should be sliced to the same thickness. Each mouthful results in equal bites of every flavor and texture. If you have good knife skills, by all means, use them, but an inexpensive Japanese mandolin slicer is a worthwhile piece of kitchen equipment and becomes especially useful when making segato.

— Rolando Beramendi

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This recipe is Copyright © 2018 by Addie Gundry in Retro Recipes from the ‘50s and ‘60s and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Griffin.

Autentico by Rolando BeramendiExcerpted from Autentico: Cooking Italian the Authentic Way by Rolando Beramendi. Published by St. Martin’s Griffin. Copyright © 2017 Rolando Beramendi. Photographs Copyright © Laurie Frankel.

Shaved Fennel, Porcini, and Pecorino
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Servings
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Shaved Fennel, Porcini, and Pecorino
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Print Recipe
  • Coursestarter
  • CuisineItalian
Servings
4 people
Servings
4 people
Ingredients
  • 2 fennel bulbs, trimmed and sliced into 1/8-inch pieces
  • 4 porcini mushrooms sliced into 1/8-inch pieces
  • One 4-ounce (113 g) piece aged pecorino, sliced into 1/8-inch pieces
  • 1/4 cup robust extra-virgin olive oil
  • Juice of ½ lemon
  • 1/4 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves torn
  • 1/4 cup mint leaves torn
  • q.b. coarse sea salt and crushed Tellicherry black peppercorns (translated, q.b. means "just enough")
Servings: people
Instructions
  1. Arrange the sliced fennel, mushrooms, and pecorino on four plates. Drizzle each with olive oil and lemon juice and top with parsley and mint leaves. Season with salt and pepper just before serving.
Recipe Notes

To Drink: Since fennel makes most wines taste the same, drink a simple, fruity red wine such as a Mona Nera Tenuta di Capezzana.

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  1. Jennifer Davis says

    June 9, 2018 at 2:04 pm

    Sounds great but I’m stumped by the dill in the picture – why no picture of Parsley and mint? The parsley and mint sound vibrant and delicious, the dill a little less so. Although it’s very pretty.

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    • Robyn Doyon-Aitken says

      June 12, 2018 at 11:16 pm

      Artist’s choice, I guess.

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      • Angie says

        June 13, 2018 at 9:32 am

        Looks like the fennel fronds, not dill?

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        • Robyn Doyon-Aitken says

          June 13, 2018 at 4:13 pm

          YES. . .you’re totally right, Angie.

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    • AnnaNotherThing says

      May 16, 2019 at 2:08 am

      i that’s not dill!
      That’s the green leafy bits which grow on the fennel stork.

      Reply »

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