{"id":3981,"date":"2026-08-25T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:05:00","slug":"bean-and-grated-bottarga-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/bean-and-grated-bottarga-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Bean and Grated Bottarga Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beans are very understated in many countries;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>in Italy, especially in Tuscany, very often they are elevated to the hero of a dish. Very good for you too, especially when you can buy them fresh, otherwise buy them dry, soak overnight in cold water and simmer gently until tender but holding to their shape.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>At the Rialto Market I buy dry beans in small plastic bags from my favourite seller.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One of them is the Corona variety, light cream in colour and large in size. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I simmer the beans gently and adjust the seasoning towards the very end of the cooking process, exactly the same way as I cook any kind of beans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Something I learned when we lived in Florence was to pair still slightly warm beans with grated bottarga, and lots of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Invariably drizzled with a good quality of olive oil, a few drops of the best possible lemon I can find and its zest is my addition &#8211; in small quantities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A grown up bean salad, served with a crunchy bread to mop up the juices and a glass of red wine, makes for a perfect dinner for us.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beans are very understated in many countries;\u00a0 in Italy, especially in Tuscany, very often they are elevated to the hero of a dish. Very good for you too, especially when you can buy them fresh, otherwise buy them dry, soak overnight in cold water and simmer gently until tender but holding to their shape.\u00a0 At &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/bean-and-grated-bottarga-salad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bean and Grated Bottarga Salad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[755,756],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}