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MOZZARELLA IN CARROZZA

MOZZARELLA IN CARROZZA

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Serves: 2

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This is Italian food before Tuscan rustic chic. The 'in carrozza' bit means 'in a carriage' and doesn't really explain what this golden-crusted fried mozzarella sandwich is about, just gives an indication that the milky cheese is somehow contained. What you should know if you've never tried it (apart from the fact that it is one of the easiest, most gratifying laptop dinners imaginable) is that it is somewhere between eggy bread, cheese on toast and fried slice. For children (and do bear this in mind for a quick, hot filler when they get back from school) it is desirably like pizza sandwich, and could be made more so with tomato sauce smeared within the bread's tender interior.

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Ingredients

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  • 6 slices white bread (crusts removed)
  • 1 ball (approx. 125g / 4oz) mozzarella (cut into approx ½cm / one-eighth inch slices then strips)
  • 125 ml full fat milk
  • 3 heaped tablespoons plain flour
  • 1 large egg
  • salt
  • pepper
  • olive oil (not extra virgin) for frying
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Method

  1. Make sandwiches out of the bread and mozzarella, leaving a little margin around the edges unfilled with cheese, and press the edges together with your fingers to help seal. (One of the advantages of plastic bread is that it is easily wodged together.)
  2. Pour the milk into one soup bowl, the flour into another, and beat the egg with salt and pepper in another.
  3. Warm the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat.
  4. Dunk the sandwiches briefly, one by one, in the milk, then dredge in the flour, then dip in the beaten egg. Fry in hot oil on each side till crisp and gold and remove to kitchen towel. Cut in half and apply to face.

Additional information - for vegetarians make sure the mozzarella is made without animal rennet.

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  • Nigella, you are the best!!!! This recipe is just amazing!!!!! My boyfriend loves your version of MOZARELLA IN CARROZZA... Many thanks... !!!! Love you

    Posted by ankitachauhan on 25th Jul 2011 at 13.09

  • I absoluely love this one it's a simple, delicious and quick meal - worth trying. I saw it first on TV years ago, when Nigella said her children loved it. I think it's a perfect one for the whole family :)

    Posted by AnnaMariaB on 13th Sep 2012 at 9.22