ITALIAN RECIPES TRADITIONAL AND CREATIVE cooking recipe: mandilli de saea (silk handkerchiefs) 
Mandilli de saea is Genoan language and means "silk handkerchiefs", due their silky consistence and thinness. BASIC INGREDIENTS | PESTO GENOVESE | typology | TRADITIONAL RECIPE OF GENOA | Conservation | POSSIBLE | season | ALL | difficulties | MEDIUM |
 Timetable |
| served | 40 minutes | cooking | 20+2 minutes (minimum) | rest | 0 minutes | working | 20 minutes |
suggested wine: dry white
ingredients for 2 persons | potato | 1 | 1 | GREEN BEANS | oz 2+3/4 | 80 GRAMS | PESTO GENOVESE | oz 7 | 200 GRAMS | EGG PASTA | oz 4+1/2 | 120 GRAMS | SWEET PECORINO | OZ 7 | 20 GRAMS | PARMESAN CHEESE | OZ 7 | 20 GRAMS |
Notes to the recipe: the mandilli are a very thin egg pasta, cut to small quadrates, seasoned with pesto Genovese, green beans and potato. This traditional recipe has a very ancient origin, without a doubt from the age when Genoa was a mighty republic and perhaps also more time before. The trick of this recipe? a great harmony of simple ingredients, very difficult to find in other simple recipes.
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