It's heavy on pasta dishes, and mentions adding beans to various dishes or serving with a salad to increase the nutrition of the dish. Along with the majority of post-war Italian families, the young Gennaro was raised on a diet harvested on a limited budget. With tips and ideas of what to do with leftover, Gennaro’s Cucina squeezes the most from the ‘cucina povera’ ethos’, ensuring that every part of the ingredient, and your budget, is put to good culinary use.

Remove from the heat, discard the bay leaves and garlic, then blend the beans until smooth using a handheld stick blender.He is a favourite on Saturday Kitchen, has his own YouTube food channel, and is an ambassador for Citalia, Parmigiano Reggiano and Birra Moretti. In an age marked by excessive convenience and mounting concerns about disposable food waste, Gennaro’s Cucina emerges as a timely beacon. Tips for stretching recipes into multiple meals add to the waste-not, want-not ethos; leftovers of the lentil soup (“simple one pot cooking at its best”), for example, can be bolstered with the addition of pasta.

Gennaro, having grown up in post-war Italy with a limited budget, shares a culinary heritage with countless Italian families. Cucina povera’ is the food that traditionally fed the poor of Italy yet remains the basis of most Italian dishes we love to eat today.Individuals are welcome to book onto this lesson but must be aware that this class requires you to work in pairs and you maybe paired up with another individual for duration of the class. Restricted choice of scarce ingredients meant they learnt the value of what they had, how to cook dishes lovingly and use imaginative methods of preservation to make simple dishes go far: including salting, drying and curing. With tips and ideas of what to do with leftovers, Gennaro helps home cooks squeeze maximum use from the 'cucina povera' ethos, turning humble ingredients into nourishing feasts without sacrificing taste. Next up, you’ll rustle up Pasta e piselli cremosi (creamy pasta with peas), before cracking on with your main course – Sgombro alla pizzaiola (mackerel fillets cooked in a tomato, caper and oregano sauce). The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.