Savory Spiedino Romano: Italian Delight on a Dime

Transport your taste buds to Italy with our budget-friendly Spiedino Romano! In this Struggle Meals episode, we’re showing you how to enjoy international flavors without the international price

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Here’s a dish you’re definitely less familiar with but I know you’re going to love it’s called spadino Romano which literally means the Roman skewered dish it’s got all the elements set up for flavor success toasty garlicky bread melty cheese and a buttery sauce over top let’s make it life can be a struggle

But a good meal doesn’t have to be we can make creative nutritious and inventive dishes that won’t break the bank we’ll eat well and save money cuz that’s what we do welcome to struggle meals we’re using an Italian loaf I’m going to slice it up doing nice thick slices of bread here

Eventually these pieces of bread are going to be married to cheese if we don’t toast the bread they’re going to be soggy we’ll lay this bread out into the oven while that bread toasts we’re going to slice our cheese the mozzarella all right this cheese can be

Pretty tough to slice all right it sure smells like the bread is toasted that’s what we’re looking for some crispiness now we’ve got a rough surface and that means we can rub raw garlic all over it Perfection we’ll go bread cheese bread cheese bread cheese all right this is a

Skewer and we’re going to do two so we’ll go one off to the side boom Boom this is the best cheesy toast now these go in the oven so the cheese melts and we get a deep dark color T we’re going to make a delicious flavorful sauce that we’re going to pour over top of this bread and it is going to make it spectacular we’re going to

Start with a shallot I tried to do a pretty fine dice on the shallot reason being we’re going to add some capers in there and I like to have the the size of things to be similar all right we’re putting some butter into a nice pan while that butter melts we’re going to

Come in with some anchovies now anchovies are the secret ingredient in the Italian Grandma kitchen we’re just going to let them melt right into the butter and they’re going to give us saltiness and Umami and if you get the quantity right no one will even know

That they’re there so I just like to take the end of a wooden spoon and literally just kind of like Jackhammer right into it I mean these have been on the heat for 30 seconds and they’re falling apart already let’s add our shallots into this flavorful butter to cut through all the

Richness a little white wine the acidity of that will do quite well bring this up to a simmer burn off that alcohol all right we’re going to hit it with some chicken stock more salt more flavor so while we wait for this to come up to a

Simmer let’s head over to the herb garden so that we can finish off this sauce with some bright fresh vitality I like parsley and I love basil for its floral awesomeness yum got these herbs here we’ll go with the parsley right into our little basil boat more basil parsley and

Then you literally roll up the little cigar and you come in and you chop that up let’s finish this sauce we take little bits of cold butter and swirl them in it’s going to help emulsify the whole sauce once you see one piece of butter melting you can come in with the

Next one all right you see how thick that’s getting so now that the Butter’s all melted into the sauce let’s add our fresh herbs in there Capers are salt little buds of flavor all right mix that around we have arrived or as the Romans would sayti today just got even better let’s

Assemble it smells fantastic here’s how you serve it you come in with your sauce you’re going to pour it right over top the bread’s going to absorb all the butter paper the wine it’s $214 of serving I can’t wait to dig in you hear that crunch this is delicious I mean the

First thing you taste is the spice of that raw garlic that’s rubbed all over the bread and it’s softened by the melted cheese but it’s nothing until we get to the sauce that butter sauce is all absorbed into the bread and yet the bread is still crunchy it’s sorcery this

Is an impressive looking dish and it’s jam-packed with flavor meaning everyone will love it make it