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Panfortino

dessert

  • 250 g honey
  • 200 g cane sugar
  • 150 g sun dried cherries
  • 2 dl chopped roasted almonds
  • 1,5 dl chopped pistachio
  • 1,5 dl chopped roasted hazelnuts
  • Zest from half an organic orange
  • 3,5-4 dl flour
  • 0,75 dl cocoa
  • 1 teaspoon cardamom
  • 180-190 g chopped chocolate (min. 70% cocoa)
  • Oven temperature: 170°C
Put baking paper in the baking tin (25x25 cm or whatever comes close).
Prepare all ingredients in the right measures so that they are ready for quick adding into the dough.
Heat honey and cane sugar for about 5 minutes - stirring constantly until the mix is quite liquid.
Add the remaining ingredients fast. The dough gets very dense and heavy,
and the faster you add the remaining ingredients the easier it is to mix everything.
Put the dough into the baking tin and press it flat. Bake for 25 minutes.
When the cake is cool, cover it with cellophane and leave for 1 day.
The covering helps the cake to settle even further. Before serving cover liberally with icing sugar.

Last Updated (Friday, 12 March 2010 11:15)

 

Soup

Zuppadifarro2

  • 250 g white beans
  • 75 g orzo (barley)
  • 75 g spelt
  • 75 g black lentils
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 3 tablespoons of olive oil
  • Fresh ground black pepper
  • Fresh ground white pepper
  • Bay leaves
  • 1 fresh red chilli pepper
  • 1 litre Vegetable bouillon
  • 200 g puff pastry
  • Fresh rosemary
  • 10 g broken walnut kernels
  • Oven temperature: 200°C
Boil the white beans and divide in two portions: 200 g and 50 g. Blend the big portion.
Heat up the garlic, olive oil, black and white pepper, chilli pepper and bay leaves. Add the spelt, lentils and chestnuts and fry for 5-8 minutes at medium heat.
Adjust to low heat and add enough vegetable bouillon to cover -the rest will be added according to necessity (the soup should end up being only slightly liquid).
After 40 minutes of cooking add all the beans (blended and whole) and cook for another 5 minutes. Add the walnut kernels.
Make 4 thin circles of the puff paste - measures should be a little bit bigger than the outer part of the bowls. Divide the soup in the 4 bowls and put the "lid" of puff pastry on top of each, making sure to press the paste slightly onto the bowl in order to stay attached during the baking in the oven. Sprinkle fresh rosemary on top of the soup and bake in the oven for 15-18 minutes.
Serves 4 persons.

Last Updated (Friday, 12 March 2010 11:46)

 

Ribollita

ribollita

  • Black cabbage
  • Green cabbage
  • Chard
  • 1 leek
  • 1 onion
  • 2 potatoes
  • 2 carrots
  • 2 squash
  • 2 stems of celery
  • 300 g white beans (cannellini)
  • 2 peeled tomatoes
  • extra virgin olive oil, salt and peper
  • 250 g "old" white bread (preferably without salt)

Put the beans in water for about 8 hours and afterwards boil them in two litres of water.
Brown the chopped onion in olive oil in another pot, add one by one the other grossly chopped vegatables and let cook on slow fire for about 10 minutes.
Add the water in which you boiled the beans and half of the cooked beans. Mash up the other half of the beans and add it to the soup. Add salt and peber and let the soup cook a slow fire for about 2 hours.
At this point add the bread that has been cut in thin slices, stir well and let boil for another 10 minutes.
Let the soup rest for a short while and serve with a dash of Tuscan extra virgin olive oil "intense fruit-taste".

Buon appetito!

Last Updated (Monday, 18 January 2010 14:43)

 

Castagnaccio

castagnaccio


  • 300 g Kastanienmehl
  • 4 Esslöffel Kandis Zucker
  • 1 Glass Milch
  • 1 Galss Wasser
  • 1 EL Olivenöl
  • 50 g Rosinen
  • 50 g Pinienkerne
  • 50 g Walnusskerne
  • 40 g Butter (nicht gesalzen)
  • Salz
  • Optional: Rosmarin
  • Zubereitung:
  • Backofentemperatur: 200 ° C
Die Rosinen in einer Schüssel mit lauwarmem Wasser geben
Das Kastanienmehl mit dem Zucker und einer Prise Salz mischen, bis Sie eine samtige Textur haben. Langsam die Milch, Wasser und Öl untermischen  und dieses mit einem Schneebesen kontinuierlich umrühren bis Sie am Ende einen glatten und flüssigen Teig haben. Nun pressen Sie die Rosinen und zerhacken die Walnusskerne. Jetzt fügen Sie die Rosinen, die Walnusskerne und den Pinienkernen dem Teig hinzu.
Nehmen Sie eine relativ breite und niedrige Backform und bestreichen diese mit Butter (Der castagnaccio ist kein sehr hoher Kuchen) und gießen Sie den Teig hinein.

Zum Schluss bestreichen Sie nur noch die Oberfläche mit ein wenig Olivenöl und streuen die Pinienkerne darüber.

Nun backen Sie den Kuchen ca. 50-60 Minuten.

Nach Belieben kann auch etwas Rosmarin dem Teig hinzugfügt werden, bevor Sie den Kuchen im Backofen backen. Bedenken Sie jedoch, dass Rosmarin einen sehr intensiven
Geschmack hat, der nicht jedem zusagt, Sie sollten deshalb auf keinen fall zu viel davon hinzufügen oder gar ganz darauf verzichten.

Wir wünschen einen guten Appetit

Last Updated (Monday, 18 January 2010 14:50)