Italian Prosciutto Cups Recipes

Steps:

• Cook and stir onion, brown sugar, and vinegar in a skillet over medium heat until onion is golden, about 20 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a 6-muffin tin with cooking spray.
• Whisk egg whites and eggs in a large measuring cup.
• Fill each muffin cup halfway with egg mixture. Scatter onion, Gouda cheese, and prosciutto cubes on top. Cover with remaining egg mixture, leaving 1/4-inch space at the top for eggs to rise.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown on top, about 20 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• In a medium bowl, mix the garlic, spinach, and ricotta until well blended. Set aside.
• Place strips of prociutto into a mini muffin tin so that they line the bottom but there is also some meat hanging out over the sides to look like a flower.
• Fill each cup with about 1 1/2 TBS of cheese mixture or enough so the cup is full and rounded on the top. The filling should look like the center of the flower.
• Bake 10-15 minutes, until the prosciutto is browned and stiff to the touch. The cups should be able to retain their shape after they are removed from the tin. Serve warm, not hot.

Steps:

• Cook spinach; drain well.
• In medium bowl, combine spinach, Parmesan, mushrooms, onions, oregano, salt and egg.
• Spray miniature muffin tins with Pam.
• Cut prosciutto into quarters.
• Press 1/4 slice into muffin tin, pressing against bottom and sides.
• Spoon cheese mixture into cup about 2/3 full.
• Bake 20-25 minutes in preheated 375 degree oven.
• Remove.
• Can be frozen.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Spray muffin tin with cooking spray.
• Press prociutto in to muffin tins covering the entire surface of the cup.
• In a bowl, scramble eggs and add ricotta cheese, asparagus and tomato.
• Pour egg minxture into the prociutto lined muffin tins.
• Sprinkle tops with shredded cheese.
• Bake for 15 minutes or until tops begin to brown a bit.

Steps:

• 1) Cut ham into squares large enough to fit into mini muffin tin. Note: the ham will shrink, so it's ok if it sticks out a bit (although try to make it stick up, so it doesn't overlap with neighboring ham cups); I also saw this done with 2-4 strips overlaid in a criss cross.
• Bake at 375 for approx 10 minutes, until warm and stiff.
• Remove cups from oven and place on paper towel to cool and drain grease (see note above).
• Cut up pear into small cubes; mix with lemon juice and fill cups as much as you want.
• Garnish with colorful spices and/or herbs (sweet paprika and chives shown in picture).