Fried Mozzarella With Anchovy Butter Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Make anchovy sauce:
• Melt butter in a small heavy saucepan over low heat. Discard any foam from top, then remove from heat. Stir in anchovies, capers, and lemon juice. Keep warm, covered. Stir in parsley just before serving.
• Make mozzarella in carrozza:
• Cut bread from middle of loaf into 12 (1/4-inch-thick) slices. Sandwich each slice of mozzarella between 2 slices bread, then cut off crusts, forming 4-inch squares (mozzarella slices should be smaller than bread slices).
• Put 1 cup milk in a shallow dish and spread bread crumbs on a plate. Dip both sides of each sandwich in milk, pressing edges lightly to seal sandwich. Coat with bread crumbs, making sure edges are coated well. Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet and chill 2 hours.
• Whisk eggs in a large shallow bowl, then whisk in 3/4 teaspoon salt and remaining 3 tablespoons milk.
• Heat 1/2 inch oil in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat until it shimmers. Dip sandwiches, 1 at a time, in egg mixture, letting excess drip off, and fry, 3 at a time, turning once with a slotted spatula, until golden, about 6 minutes per batch. Drain on paper towels.
• Halve diagonally and serve hot with anchovy sauce.

Steps:

• Make the sauce in a small saucepan cookk the garlic inthe butter over moderately low heat for 3 minutes remove the pan from the heat and stir in the anchovies the capers the parsley the lemon juice and the pepper. Samdwich each slice of the mozzarella between 2 bread rounds flatten the sandwiches slightly and pinch the edges of the bread together securely to enclose the mozzarella completely. In a shallow dish beat together lightly the eggs and the milk and dip the sandwisches into the mixture coating them on all sides and letting the excess drip off. In a large skillet heat 2 tablespoons of the oil and 2 tablespoons of the butter over moderately heat until the fat is hot and in the fat fry the sandwiches in batches using the remaing 2 tablespoons butter and 2 tablespoons oil if neccessary for 1 minute on each side or until they are golden. Transfer the fried mozzarella to a heated platter and drizzle it with sauce heated.

Steps:

• Sauce -- Now, I like to use the same pan I cook the seafood or chicken in, but you can just make it in a small sauce pan if you want. Either works very well.
• In the pan, heat to medium high heat and melt the butter. Then stir in the anchovies and mash with a fork as they cook. You only need to cook them just a couple of minutes. Then stir in the wine, garlic, capers, pepper and 1 lemon slice and squeeze slightly. Just cook another 2-3 minutes and remove from the heat. Stir in the parsley and remove the lemon slice.
• Serve -- Just garnish your dish with one of the lemon slices and pour the butter sauce over your dish. A little pinch of paprika gives it nice color and a little spice to the sauce.