Preparazione

• Clean the tenerumi by removing the filaments, blanch them in plenty of water and then cool them.
• Separately, clean the courgette flowers.
• In a saucepan, brown the Vismara sweet bacon cubes and then transfer them to a sheet of absorbent paper.
• Pour the extra virgin olive oil into a pan and cook the garlic, the chilli and remove them once they are golden.
• Add the tenerumi, the courgette flowers, salt to taste and sauté.
• For the pasta, cook in suitably salted boiling water and when cooked add the pasta to the previously obtained preparation and add the crispy sweet pancetta cubes.
• Stir for a few minutes and serve.

WHAT ARE TENERUMES?
With tenerumi, or tenerume, we indicate the leaves of a typical courgette that grows in Sicily, the long courgette or snake courgette. Large leaves with a dark and velvety colour that are collected when young and particularly tender.

Chef Gennaro Esposito