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Homemade chickpea hummus: recipe and ingredients – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

L’chickpea hummus it is a characteristic dish of Middle Eastern countries, a sauce that can be served as an appetizer based on legumes, herbs and paprika. It is easily prepared and is a totally vegetarian dish with an unmistakable flavour.

This chickpea cream comes from Middle East, where chickpea (in Arabic “hummus”) has been cultivated for more than ten thousand years. A tradition that is now also part of the typically Italian Mediterranean diet.

It pairs easily with any dish, whether meat or fish; It is suitable for people on a diet vegan but also for those who are intolerant to dairy productsbecause in fact it is a flavored legume concentrate!

Having a very light base, both in terms of simple ingredients and taste, hummus can be seasoned with spices which you prefer: the most recommended one is sweet paprika (powder), but nutmeg or chilli pepper are also perfect!

You can also decide to use it as a side dish dip of vegetables, to prepare a different aperitif, more complete, but in any case genuine and light. Its ingredients make chickpea hummus rich in beneficial properties: antioxidants make it an anti-aging, anti-tumor and diuretic food, capable of improving digestion thanks to the fact that it is low in saturated fats.

Don’t miss the other variations! Have fun discovering bean hummus, Of spinach and fetaOf beets and of avocado!

Homemade baked zeppole – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

They are the classic dessert of March 19th, Father’s Day: le baked zeppole they represent one of the two classic versions of the legendary zeppole of San Giuseppe. Compared to fried zeppole they are less heavy, drier and fuller-bodied. The taste, then, is more marked, decisive, with the black cherries in syrup and the icing sugar topping a fountain of custard that stands out from the top of the choux pastry base. A true culinary masterpiece, which can be made with ease

How to make baked San Giuseppe zeppole

To prepare baked San Giuseppe zeppole you need eggs, flour, butter and salt for the choux pastry, milk, sugar, cornstarch, cream, egg yolks and vanilla for the custard, with black cherries and icing sugar for the final touch. An extraordinarily good dessert to eat and also beautiful to look at, the best way to sanctify a large-scale celebration like the one on March 19th. Discover all the steps of the delicious recipe baked zeppole.

Homemade Seitan – Recipe by – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

First prepare the broth: clean the vegetables, cut them into pieces and place them in a large pot.
Also add the flavourings, leaving only the soy sauce aside, cover with plenty of cold water and bring to the boil, then leave to cook for 1 hour.

While the broth is cooking, combine water and flour in a bowl and mix for at least 15 minutes, so as to activate the gluten mesh properly and until you obtain a smooth and homogeneous dough.
Then place it in a bowl and cover it with plenty of cold water.

Start the washing phase: massage the dough in the water, continuing until the water is whitish.
Drain the white water and cover the dough again, this time with hot water, then continue with the massages.
Continue alternating cold and hot water until the water is almost transparent even when you massage it, and finish the last wash with cold water.
Finally, give the dough a more elongated shape, as if it were a piece of roast meat.

Wrap the seitan in a clean cloth (without tightening too much), closing the ends with kitchen twine.
Add soy sauce and salt to the broth, immerse the seitan with all the cloth in the broth and leave to cook for 50 minutes, then leave to cool in the broth.

At this point you can lift the seitan from the broth, cut it into slices and use it.
Don’t throw away the broth as you will need it to preserve the seitan.

The homemade seitan is ready, all you have to do is store it in the fridge for up to 1 week, in an airtight container and covered with its cooking broth, waiting to use it for all your preparations.