Lampredotto Sandwich – The Authentic Florentine Street Food Recipe

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Lampredotto Sandwich

With this recipe, you can recreate the typical street food of Florence’s markets at home and enjoy the panino just like the locals do during their lunch break—or like the few brave tourists who dare to try it, including Stanley Tucci, who famously chose Pollini’s lampredotto as the true taste of Florence. Give it a go and discover a new, rich, and well-rounded flavor, made even more appetizing by the salsa verde.

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Lampredotto

Ingredients 🥄

For the lampredotto:

  • 500 g lampredotto (cow’s fourth stomach)
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 celery stalks
  • 2 ripe tomatoes
  • 1/2 red onion
  • A handful of coarse salt

For the salsa verde (my mother’s green sauce):

  • Plenty of fresh parsley
  • 1 hard-boiled egg
  • 1 handful of capers in vinegar, drained
  • 2 slices of bread, soaked in vinegar and water
  • 1 garlic clove
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper

Method 👩‍🍳

Cooking the lampredotto:

  1. Rinse the lampredotto under running water.
  2. Place it in a pot filled about 3/4 with cold water along with the carrot, celery, tomatoes, red onion, and a handful of coarse salt.
  3. Bring to a boil, then simmer gently for at least one hour, making sure not to let the water evaporate completely.

Preparing the salsa verde:

  1. Boil the egg until hard-boiled. Let it cool.
  2. Soak the bread slices in vinegar and water, then squeeze out excess liquid.
  3. Finely chop the parsley, hard-boiled egg, garlic, capers, and soaked bread.
  4. Mix all ingredients in a bowl with plenty of extra virgin olive oil, seasoning with salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.

Assembling the sandwich:

  1. Remove the lampredotto from the broth, trim the edges, and slice it thinly.
  2. Open your bun or sandwich roll and fill it generously with lampredotto slices.
  3. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, then add a generous spoonful of salsa verde.
  4. Be careful when eating: the sauce and fat tend to drip everywhere, but that’s part of the charm of a lampredotto sandwich!

Tip

Lampredotto is also delicious served on a plate, seasoned with salt, olive oil, and pepper, with salsa verde on the side.

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