The recipes and dishes of L’Ocio Giulivo
Here is a list, always growing, of our favorite recipes that you will find on our menus!
Appetizers
- The jolly appetizer (variations of goose, d’aglione and other surprises)
- Codfish mantecato on a nest of citrus zucchini noodles
- Savory necci (chestnut crepes) stuffed with mushrooms and Valdichiana aglione accompanied by ricotta cream
- Tuscan Panzanella
- Pappa al pomodoro
- Approached and smoked goose breast on bed of various fruits
- Fried meatballs of codfish mantecato with vegetable dressing
- Fried Chianina tripe with my homemade mayonnaise and rubra sauce
- Fried egg in its nest and flaky salt
Soups / Soups
- Goose cappelletti in broth of the same, with vegetables and egg
- Tuscan-style onion soup
- Assorted legume soup in bean broth
- Wild pea soup
First Dishes
- Egg pasta buds filled with ricotta cheese and aglione stalks, dressed with olive oil and goose roe
- Cappelletti d’oca burro e salvia con con bottarga di oca
- Pumpkin gnudi (or gnocchi) seasoned with butter and sage, topped with chopped almonds
- Egg pasta lasagnetta with seasonal vegetables from our garden
- Egg maltagliati with crumbs
- Maltagliati with Trinacria-inspired lamb (raisins, fennel, pine nuts and spicy crumbs)
- Fresh straw and hay pasta with venison or wild boar batting from our hunting reserve
- Homemade lampredotto ravioli in their broth
- Ricotta and aglione stalks ravioli with goose roe
- Remade boiled risotto and onions
- Risotto with the herbs that are there (in season and in the kitchen)
- Homemade spaghettoni with raw kale pesto
- Homemade drunken spaghettoni with goose or chicken roe
- Homemade spaghetti with pesto from the raw herbs that are there (in season and in the kitchen)
- Homemade spaghettoni with angry aglione sauce, raw tomato and parmesan and basil granules
- Homemade goose egg noodles with ocio ragout
Main Dishes
- Low-temperature roast with sautéed herbs
- Cod in white chickpea sauce with caramelized onions
- Codfish mantecato on a bed of sweet and sour onions
- Chianina steak on the reverse-cooked rib-eye
- Caciucco di quinto quarto di chianina
- Sweet and strong capocollo on a bed of onions
- Seared wild boar with sweet and strong sauce with raisins, pine nuts and chocolate
- Confit goose leg with orange sauce and baked vegetables
- Goose leg confit with elderberry sauce and baked vegetables
- Honey lacquered chicken thigh with baked potatoes
- Stewed pork ribs with caramelized onions
- Wine-lacquered pork ribs
- Caramelized ox heart with celeriac and eggplant
- Wild boar or venison fillet (depending on availability, hunted in our reserve) in its brown and crusted with hazelnuts and pistachios
- Braised beef ganascine
- Goose and sausage burgers with our homemade bread, fries and homemade sauces
- Tongue in white chickpea sauce with baked vegetables
- Piglet cooked at low temperature with wine sauce
- Goose vacuum-packed and finished on the grill with baked potatoes
- Peposa goose, overcooked in wine with caramelized endive
- Vacuum-cooked goose breast with wine sauce and baked potatoes mashed in goose fat
- Honey lacquered chicken with baked potatoes
- Goose porchetta cooked in a vacuum and finished on the grill with baked potatoes
- Chianina roast beef cooked at low temperature with its sauce and baked vegetables
- Vacuum-cooked pork knuckle with baked vegetables
- Grilled spicy chicken (breast) supreme with baked potatoes
Side dishes
- Mixed salad from our garden
- Baked potatoes
- French fries
- Vellutata of various vegetables from the garden or surroundings with fried Tuscan bread croutons
- Baked mixed vegetables from our garden
Dessert
- Stale bread pudding with alkermes #sevigarba
- Chicory from the garden or surrounding area tossed with Valdichiana aglione
- Chocolate and ricotta mousse with candied oranges
- Panforte parfait
- Cacio e pere glass cake (cheese cake) made with Tuscan PDO pecorino cheese, mascarpone cheese, ricotta cheese and pears in syrup, garnished with red berry jam and walnuts
- Simply chocolate cake
- Vinsantamisu by the glass, made with cream, lei made with maremma eggs, cream, mascarpone, cocoa, IGP Tuscan cantuccini and vinsanto