By now we know: waste is a precious resource for making great dishes. Have you ever thought about cocktails? Yup, even drinks can be prepared with what is left over in the kitchen and in the gallery above you will find a perfect example: the “Carotone” recipe, a creation of Edoardo Nono, owner and bartender of the Rita & Cocktails, one of the most popular places in Milan for those who love to drink well. It’s a fresh and spicy sour made – among other ingredients – with carrots that regularly remain in the fridge and with l‘acquafaba, which is the cooking water of the chickpeas or the “government” water in which canned legumes are immersed.
An invitation to taste a different cocktail without wasting precious food, Edoardo Nono prepared «Carotone» to celebrate the first year of Babaco Market: the e-commerce of “ugly but good” fruit and vegetables which – for now in Milan and its hinterland, Monza, Brianza and Varese – sells products of the highest quality (including many IGPs and Slow Food their appearance does not find a place in mainstream channels and would otherwise be thrown away. A system that made it possible to recover in just 12 months 140 tons of fruit and vegetables and to avoid 350 tons of C02 emissions.
«Babaco’s anti-waste philosophy – says Edoardo Nono – has always been our philosophy too. Many of our cocktail recipes arise from the recovery of products and ingredients we use for our aperitifs“. Just like carrots and acquafaba (recovered from the preparation of humus) used for Carotone: a drink made with only homemade products, perfect for an aperitif or to combine with fresh and light dishes such as fish and vegetables, but even salads. To see the recipe, browse the gallery above
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