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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, a company famous in Italy for its pastries and biscuits. ...

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 Coffee Mascarpone Cream recipe, 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 ...

April 5, 2018

Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache

Easter eggs filled with chocolate ganache are delicious and sure a different dessert for Easter dinner. The recipe is very simple: just get lots of dark chocolate, Easter eggs, butter and whipping cream. Ganache Cream is a dense and velvety cream made of dark chocolate, used in pastry to decorate and fill so many types of sweets such as cakes, cupcakes, tarts, tartlets, mignon. With it you can make puddings, fill bignè, make little chocolates or Profitteroles, finally make decorations on ...

March 27, 2018

Roman Style Artichokes | Carciofi alla Romana

Roman style artichokes is a traditional Roman dish. More precisely it's a tasty side dish, usually served with meats, especially lamb. In many Italian restaurants Roman style artichokes are even served as an appetizer. The variety of artichokes needed for this recipe are roman artichokes or mammole, that stands out from the others for its rounder shape and non-thorny leaves. These are called globe artichokes in English. Then there is the mint (or better still mentuccia, a type of wild mint ...

March 16, 2018

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. ...

March 7, 2018

Tomato Passata Recipe | How to Make Italian Tomato passata

Traditionally in Italy passata is made right at the end of summer, when there’s a glut of ripe, juicy tomatoes. But fortunately red ripe tomatoes can be found throughout the year. It is enough to know how to choose the right quality. Today we'll try to show you a way to enjoy the taste of ripe tomatoes in every season and we'll do it making the classic tomato passata. Tomato passata is one of the most useful basic recipe in Italian cuisine. It is cooked tomato, without seeds or ...