Freshness in the kitchen is recognisable by the meticulous selection of seasonal products and top-quality fresh ingredients, used to create healthy and delicious dishes. A restaurant that cares about tradition but also about the authenticity of the products it serves can therefore be identified by looking at the ingredients in its dishes, both classic recipes and daily specials.
How to recognise seasonal products
Our region is an enormously important resource for its cultivation of fruit and vegetables: Italy enjoys a mild climate which means seasonal produce is always available. To consume seasonal products is to enjoy a varied and healthy diet, based on the ingredients nature provides throughout the year. What’s more, consuming food made using high-quality seasonal products helps us to help the environment by shopping sustainably and enjoying foods that display their authentic and true flavours only when they are fresh. The golden rule for recognising seasonal fruit and vegetables is to look at their colours: the orange and yellow of citrus fruits in winter, the pink of strawberries and the white of pears and fennel in spring, the red of tomatoes, berries and peppers and the green of courgettes in summer, and the warm shades of autumn, like the brown of chestnuts and mushrooms or the deep orange of persimmons and squashes.
Ristorante Amedeo’s offer
The importance of consuming seasonal products has led Ristorante Amedeo to develop a menu that varies according to what nature makes available. Winter or summer, we offer the opportunity to enjoy our seasonal specialities and our daily specials, made with the fresh ingredients available at the particular time of year. On our website you’ll find a section devoted to a specific seasonal ingredient: right now it’s the aubergine, the queen of summer, which we use in various dishes on our summer menu. You can enjoy it either as an antipasto (aubergine dumplings with fresh tomato, smoked scamorza and basil) or as a first course (ravioli of aubergine and smoked provola in a tomato sauce with basil pesto and buffalo mozzarella cream).
Our seasonal specialities
Our cooking is highly focused on seasonal ingredients and this is why our specialities include many other dishes prepared using seasonal produce: first and foremost, we recommend trying our fillet of beef cooked “à point” with a red wine jus and sautéd chicory, an essential ingredient of Roman summer food. If you prefer fish, don’t miss the fillet of sea bass in a potato crust with roast tomato pesto and sautéd broccoli (did you know sea bass is one of the quintessential summer fish?); to end your meal on a sweet note, choose a dessert with mixed berries, like our cheesecake with fruits of the forest.
Our daily specials based on fresh seasonal ingredients
Don’t forget that Ristorante Amedeo also offers a wide variety of off-menu dishes – our daily specials – you can ask your server or consult the dedicated section of our website. We focus on fresh ingredients for our daily specials too, ensuring that our menu is based on seasonality and contemporary cooking, but also on authenticity and tradition.
For more information, don’t hesitate to contact us; we look forward to seeing you!
