Italian Food Recipes

If you want to eat Italian gnocchi but not the classical one, just made with potatoes, but something a little bit different with the taste of chestnut this is the perfect recipe.
These types of gnocchi called tocchetti are made with chestnut’s flour, potatoes and pumpkin and the seasoning is made with the Italian cheese Asiago. The Italian cheese Asiago is produced in the town of Asiago and there are two types according to its aging: the fresh one that is smooth and the crumbly one for the aged cheese of which the flavour is reminiscent of Parmesan. In this recipe I used the fresh one for its sweet taste and its smooth consistency.

INGREDIENTS:
1 kg of Potatoes
300 g of Flour
200 g of Chestnut’s Flour
200 of Pumpkin in pieces
1 Egg
Breadcrumbs
150 g of Asiago Cheese cut in pieces
40g of Butter
Leaf of Sage

PREPARATION TIME: 20 minutes

COOKING TIME: 15-18 minutes

WINE: Novello (Red Wine)

PREPARATION
Boiled the potatoes with peel

and cook the pieces of pumpkin in a pan with two spoons of extra virgin olive oil.

When the potatoes are cooked, peel and mash them in a bowl together with the pieces of pumpkin.

Put on the table the mixture of potatoes and pumpkin together with the flour, the chestnut’s flour and the egg

and begin to knead until you obtain homogeneous and soft dough, this take about 8 – 10 minutes, if the dough is too soft you can add a little bit of breadcrumbs.



Divide the dough in parts and roll each one in order to obtain a sort of longs sausages thick as a finger. Pay attention to have always enough flour on the worktable in order to not attach the dough to it.

Cut each long sausage in small pieces of 1 cm length that we can call “tocchetti”.

Sprinkle tocchetti with flour and place them on a tray.
Let salted water boiled, put on it tocchetti and cooked them until they come on the surface. In the meantime prepare the seasoning, put in a pan the butter with the leaf of sage,

when tocchetti are cooked drain them and put them in the pan with butter and sage, add the Asiago cheese and let it melted.

Serve hot.

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This is a very easy recipe to prepare. You don’t need many ingredients, just the dough for ravioli and the filling that is made of potatoes and smoked salmon, a very good combination of taste. The preparation of the dressing is also very simple and fast, you just need to melt some butter and add some black pepper. The only thing that is a bit long to do is the preparation of the dough for ravioli but it is also very easy and funny. You can safe some time using the machine for roll the dough instead of using the rolling pin. In both case you will obtain very delicious Italian ravioli with smoked salmon and potatoes.

INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):
300g of Flour
3 Eggs
Salt
2 Potatoes
200g of Smoked Salmon
40 g of butter
Black pepper

PREPARATION TIME: 1 hour

COOKING TIME: 10 minutes

WINE: Cortona Sauvignon Doc (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Mix flour with eggs and a bit of salt until you will obtain a homogeneous dough.

Then lei it stand for 30 minutes, in the meantime prepare the filling. Boil two potatoes and when they are cooked smash it. Cut the smoked salmon in little pieces and mix it with the smashed potatoes.

It’s time now to stand the dough so, roll out the dough, you can do this with the help of a rolling pin or more easily with the help of a pasta machine. Here I use the pasta machine. Start roll out the dough from the biggest thickness of the machine then little by little reduce it until you obtain a pastry of about 2 – 3 mm of thickness. Cut the pastry in long rectangular pieces like shown in the picture. Put in the middle of the pastry the filling and cover it with the rest of the pastry.

Now cut with the help of a star-shape ravioli, put them on a tray with a bit of flour (in order to not them attach each others).

Let the salted water boil for ravioli and cooked them in it for about 10 minutes. Prepare the dressing for ravioli with melted butter and black pepper.

When ravioli are cooked put on them the melted butter and serve hot.

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To prepare this risotto you just need the two main ingredients: speck and blueberry, and then you can prepare very easly and fast a delicious italian recipes. If you don't have a lot of time you can just prepare the broth with water and stock cube vegetables but if you want to prepare the real italian recipes you should prepare broth with water, salt, and fresh vegetables like onion, carrot, potatoes and celery. The blueberries give to risotto a sweet taste that in this Itlain recipes is joined with the salted and savoury taste of speck.

INGREDIENTS (for 4 peolpe):
350 g of Rice
150 g of Blueberry
150 g of Speck in thin slices
30 g of Butter
1 / 2 Onion
3 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
Water for broth
1 Stock cube-vegetables

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 18-20 minutes

WINE: Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Cerasuolo Doc (Red WIne)

PREPARATION

Start preparing the hot broth: you can easly and rapidly prepare it in a pan with water and the stock-cube vegetables, or you can boil water with carrots, celery, onion and potatoes but this take a bit more of time.

Then wash and cut in half the blueberry.

Chop the onion and put it in a pan with butter and let it cook until it comes golden.

Add the rice and let it roast for some minutes and then add spoon by spoon the hot broth.

Stir the rice time by time and let it cook for about 15 minutes, some minutes before the cooking ends, add the blueberry and stir.

Cover the bottom of a bwol with speck.

When the rice is ready pour it on the speck like show in the picture below.

In this way the speck will warm and let the rice more tasty. Serve hot.

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INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):
2 Carrots
2 Celeries
1 Small Onion
40 g of Almond without peel
4 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
300 g of Chicken breast

PREPARATION TIME: 10 minutes

COOKIN TIME: 15 minutes

WINE: Colline Novaresi Nebbiolo Doc (Red Wine)

PREPARATION
Start with the preparation of the all ingredients: clean and peel the carrots, the celery and the onion and cut them in long slices.


Cut the chicken breast in square pieces of medium dimension as shown in the picture below.


Preheat the extra virgin olive oil in a pan, when the oil is hot, add the vegetables and let them cook for about 5 minutes.


Then add the chicken breast and let them golden.


Add the almond


and continue the cooking with a cover for about 10 – 15 minutes until the meat is good cooked.
Serve hot.
This is the result:

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