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Tomato Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes

Tomato sauce with fresh tomatoes is an easy and tasty pasta sauce, made with cluster tomatoes or San Marzano. Choose very fresh tomatoes, red ripe but firm and free of spots. With them we'll make a tomato passata which we'll cook with a delicious soffritto, herbs and spices. Once ready, enjoy your tomato sauce to season pasta, to make tasty main courses of stewed fish or appetizer such as deviled eggs. SEE ALSO: How to Make Marinara Sauce amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; ...

September 22, 2020

Spaghetti Marinara Sauce – Classic Italian Recipe Easy and Tasty

Spaghetti Marinara sauce, a very simple, cheap and quick-to-make recipe: the authentic Italian recipe wants only 4 ingredients: tomatoes, (preferably San Marzano quality but even cherry, cluster or datterino quality), extra virgin olive oil, garlic and oregano. In Italian the word "Marinara" recalls the sea ("mare") and the sailors ("marinai"), so you can think of a dish mainly made of fish. In reality, the sauce is prepared in the same way as the famous Neapolitan pizza called "alla ...

May 6, 2020

Fried Italian Meatballs Recipe

Fried Italian meatballs are soft and crispy, made with a selection of fine meats ranging from beef, veal to chicken, turkey and pork. Meatballs recipes have their roots in peasant, poor cuisine as it was a smart way to repurpose leftovers: for example the meat leftover from the day before, of a roast chicken, rather than a turkey, mixed with stale bread, milk, eggs. Simple but nutritious foods like other famous Italian dishes such as Chocolate bread cake and the Tuscan Pappa al Pomodoro...

April 27, 2020

Pesto Genovese | Authentic Italian Basil Pesto

Pesto Genovese is an uncooked cold sauce made only with 7 ingredients: Genovese basil DOP, extra virgin olive oil (Possibly of the Ligurian Riviera), Parmigiano Reggiano (or Grana Padano), Pecorino cheese (Fiore Sardo), pine nuts, garlic and salt. It was born in Liguria, a beautiful region situated in northern Italy. It's one of the sauces most used in our country and nowadays it's famous all over the world. This is the official recipe of the Consorzio Pesto Genovese that is very ...

April 16, 2020

Castagnaccio Recipe | Best Italian Chestnut Flour Cake

Castagnaccio recipe, a typical Tuscan dessert made with chestnut flour and enriched with raisins, pine nuts, walnuts and rosemary. Only extra virgin olive oil and a little water; no eggs, no butter and no yeast. Castagnaccio is not one of those soft and airy breakfast cakes, but this chestnut flour cake is moist and compact and unleavened. If you love chestnuts and dried fruit, you will love Castagnaccio for its delicate and naturally sweet taste. Yes, because the original Tuscan recipe does ...

October 29, 2019

Tiramisu Authentic Italian Recipe

Here is Tiramisu authentic Italian recipe, the most famous Italian dessert in the world born in Treviso (a lovely town near Venice), delicious and easy to make. Follow the directions of this recipe and make the best Tiramisu you have ever eaten! Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made of savoiardi ladyfingers soaked in coffee, arranged in layers and filled with a cream made with mascarpone and eggs. Try Savoiardi Ladyfingers BALOCCO #ad, a company famous in Italy for its pastries ...

October 8, 2019

Panna Cotta Recipe

Panna Cotta is a classic italian dessert made with heavy cream, vanilla and sugar. Gelatin sheets, added to the mixture, create a custard-like consistency. The choice of ingredients is essential for an excellent panna cotta recipe, so choose the best you can find such as high quality fresh heavy cream and natural vanilla bean. You can top Panna Cotta with seasonal fruits, it's delicious with exotic fruits, citrus and red fruits. It can even be served with dark chocolate ganache on top or ...

September 28, 2019

Amatriciana Pasta Recipe | Pasta all’Amatriciana

Amatriciana pasta recipe (Pasta all'Amatriciana) is a famous first course of Roman trattorias and restaurants, originally born in Amatrice, a small town in the district of Rieti. The ingredients are basically four: red pepper, pecorino romano, guanciale and peeled tomatoes. Other ingredients, such as garlic and onion, are not present in the authentic Amatriciana pasta recipe but are present in the recipe of the district of Rome. In addition, the type of pasta used in the Amatriciana sauce ...

December 6, 2018

Chicken with Bell Peppers, Onion and Olives

Chicken with bell peppers onion and olives is a tasty and dainty dish, very simple to make and therefore perfect if you are looking for quick recipes for lunch or dinner. The strong flavor of the bell pepper perfectly matches the sweetness of the onion and the delicacy of the chicken, creating a perfect mix of flavors that will allow you to serve the chicken breast in an alternative way. We chose red bell peppers, but you can use green ones or even both. For an alternative recipe, you can ...

October 30, 2018

Coffee Mascarpone Cream in Chocolate Cookie Cups

Coffee Mascarpone Cream is an excellent and easy-to-make dessert, served in single-portion glass cups or in small cups made of chocolate biscuits, as we will explain in this recipe. For this Italian dessert, neither eggs nor cooking are needed. This delicious cream made with mascarpone and coffee is excellent for making lighter tiramisu, a valid alternative to the classic tiramisu recipe made with eggs. So here we'll show you how to make the chocolate cookies cups filled with a ...

April 5, 2018