Italian Food Recipes

This is a typical dessert of this period in Italy. In my garden, my fig tree begins to give many figs, and so after made the fig jam I decided to make a tart with figs and cream. It is a delicious Italian recipes!




INGREDIENTS (for 8 people):
For the pastry:
100 g of Flour
30 g of Almonds without peel
50 g of Butter
40 g of Sugar
1 Yolk
1 Lemon grated peel
A pinch of Salt
For the stuffed:
400 g of Figs
3 Yolks
3 Tablespoons of sugar
30 g of Flour
20 ml of White Wine

PREPARATION TIME: 40 minutes

COOKING TIME: 20 minutes

WINE: Verduzzo Friulano (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Begin with the preparation of the pastry. Let the butter soften at room temperature.

Chop finely the almond. Place the flour on a worktable as a fountain, put in the middle of it the pieces of butter, the chopped almonds, the sugar, the lemon grated peel, the yolk and a pinch of salt.

Mix all the ingredients until you obtain homogeneous dough. The cover it with a cellophane and let it stand in fridge for about 30 minutes.

Dampen a sheet of baking paper and put it on the bottom of a pan of 24-cm diameter. Then roll out the dough 1 cm thick and cover the bottom and the sides of the pan.

With a fork riddle with holes the pastry and bake for 25 minutes until the surface becomes golden.
In the meantime prepare the stuffed.

Clean, peel and cut the figs in slices. Heat the wine in a pan. In a bowl mix the yolks with the sugar

then add the flour and the warm wine and continue to mix until you obtain a homogeneous cream.

Pour the cream in a pan and cook it on a low flame stirring for about 5 minutes.

Let the cream cool. Then pour it over the pastry as shown in the picture below.

Place over the cream the slices of fig as you prefer.

Get the tart cool and serve.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!

Salame of chocolate is a simple and fast Italian sweet to prepare. It is made of cacao, dried biscuits, sugar, butter and eggs. If you want you can also add some hazelnuts.




INGREDIENTS (for 6 people):
150 g of Dried Biscuits
100 g of Sugar
100 g of Butter
1 Egg
50 g of Cacao

WINE: Erbaluce di Caluso Passito Doc (White Wine)

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 1-2hours

PREPARATION
Mix in a bowl the sugar with the butter and the egg.

Crumb the biscuits and add them to the mixture together with the cacao.

Mix all in order to obtain a mixture like that shown in the picture below.

Place the mixture over a sheet of baking paper cover with it and give it the shape of salame.


Put the salame in fridge for 2 hours and serve.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!

Chiacchiere, Carnival fried pastry, are typical dessert prepared in Italy in the occasion of Carnival. In each region of Italy they have different names: Cenci in Tuscany, Crostoli in Venice, Bugie in Genoa, Frappe in Emilia and Chiacchiere in Lombardy. You can prepare them following different kind of recipes, that presented below is very simple and delicious!








INGREDIENTS (for 6 people):
300 g of Flour
30 g of Butter
90 ml of Cream
50 g of Sugar
2 Eggs
60 ml of Dry white wine
Icing sugar
Extra virgin olive oil to fry (200 ml)
Flour for worktop

PREPARATION TIME: 1 hour and 10 minutes

COOKING TIME: 30 minutes

WINE: Moscato d’Asti (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Mix in a bowl the flour, the sugar, the butter and the eggs.

Then add the cream and the wine.

Mix all together in order to obtain homogeneous dough and let it stand for about 1 hour.

Now place a bit of flour over a worktop and with the help of a rolling pin roll out the dough in a pastry very thin.

Cut the pastry in rectangles and then make 2 incisions in the middle of them.


Preheat the extra virgin olive oil in a pan and fry in it the chiacchiere until they become golden.

Place the chiacchiere on a blotting paper in order to remove the oil in excess. Then place them in a platter and sprinkle with the icing sugar.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!

Doughnuts of potatoes are another typical Italian dessert prepared in the occasion of Carnival. The following recipe is that of classical doughnuts that you can eat in each regions of Italy. They are very delicious!









INGREDIENTS (for 8 people):
500 g of Flour
3 Potatoes
2 Eggs
80 g of Butter
4 Tablespoons of sugar
25 g of Yeast
Extra virgin olive oil to fry
Icing sugar

PRPEPARATION TIME: 2 hours

COOKING TIME: 30 minutes

WINE: Moscato d’Asti (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Clean and peel the potatoes. Boil them for about 20 minutes, when they are ready let them cool and then mash them.

Place the mashed potatoes in a bowl, mix them with the flour, the sugar and the yeast
and add the eggs.

Mix all together in order to obtain homogeneous dough and let it rise for about 1 hour.

After this time add in the middle of the dough the butter.


Knead the dough, make many small snakes of dough, join the end and so you obtain doughnuts.


Let them rise for about 20 minutes.


Preheat the oil in a pan and, when it is hot, fry the doughnuts in it until they become golden.

Place them on a sheet of a kitchen paper in order to remove the oil in excess.


Sprinkle them with some icing sugar.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!

These are delicious and appetizing dessert, fast to prepare in particular when eggs white from other recipes leave. They are simple made of eggs white and sugar. If you like cacao you can sprinkle them with it and make them more delicious.








INGREDIENTS (for 40- 50 meringue):
2 Eggs white
120 g of Sugar

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 20 – 30 minutes

WINE: Oltrepo Pavese Sangue di Giuda (Red Wine)

PREPARATION
Preheat the oven to 100°C. Place in a bowl the eggs white and the sugar.

Start with the electric whisk or with the manual whisk to beat the eggs white with the sugar

until you obtain a firm dough and until the sugar is completely mix with the eggs white.

Then cover with a sheet of a baking paper the bootom of a baking tin, put the mixture
Bake for about 20 – 30 minutes.


Remove from the oven, let the meringue cool and then, if you like, sprinkle them with some cacao. This is the result:


BUON APPETITO!

This is a typical Italian dessert that it is prepared in the occasion of Carnival. Tortelli are little ball of sweet dough. You can prepare them without stuffing or with different types of stuffing like apple, strawberry, ricotta cheese, jam and many others. This is the recipe of tortelli without stuffing that is simple to realize!








INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):
150 g of Flour
3 Eggs
50 g of Sugar
1 / 2 Lemon
150 ml of Water
50 g of Butter
Salt
250 ml of Extra virgin olive oil to fry
Icing sugar

PREPARATION TIME: 2 hours

COOKING TIME: 20 minutes

WINE: Moscato D’Asti (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Place in a pan the water and the butter and let them boil until the butter melts.

Then add all the flour

and start immediately to stir until you obtain an homogeneous dough as shown in the picture below.

Now let the dough cool and stand for about 1 hours and 30 minutes. In the mean time beat one egg white till stiff.

When the dough is cool add one by one the yolk.


Add the sugar and mix.

At the end add the the egg white beaten

and mix in order to have a dough as this.

Heat extra virgin olive oil in a pan, when it is hot place small spoonfuls of the dough in it and let them brown.

When they are ready place them on a kitchen paper in order to remove the oil in excess. Then sprinkle them with some icing sugar. In this is way you have tortelli of Carnival!
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!