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5 children taste Contraste's haute cuisine – Italian Cuisine

We invited five children between seven and ten years old to a haute cuisine restaurant. Here's what happened

What happens when five children try haute cuisine for the first time? We discovered it together with Beatrice, Benjamin, Edoardo, Elvira is Tilde at the restaurant Contraste, opened in Milan in 2015 and awarded a Michelin star in 2017.

To welcome the children there were the room manager Thomas, the waiter Giulio and finally the chef Matias Perdomo, who sat at the table to discover their opinions on the five courses tasted. Scallop noodles, parmesan and dashi, Spaghetti with clams, Donut alla bolognese, Pluma from Iberian pork, hedgehogs and burrata, and finally the sweet Pulp Fiction, inspired by the Quentin Tarantino film.

Ready to be children again? Look at the video to discover the reactions of our five little guests, amidst wonder, curiosity and fun!

properties, benefits and how to use them in the kitchen – Italian Cuisine

Rich in nutrients and excellent supplements, thanks to their innumerable properties they are very useful to our body in many different ways. Let's find out together

Sunflower seeds are nothing more than i fruits of the Helianthus annuus, an annual plant belonging to the family of the Astaraceae. As well as flax seeds, pumpkin seeds or chia seeds, due to their numerous nutritional properties they are considered as a natural supplement able to make health benefits of our body.

Why are sunflower seeds good for you?

These oil seeds are very rich in vitamins, especially of groups B and E, and of folic acid. THEto vitamin E is the most powerful antioxidant and helps our body to fight premature aging of tissues, while lFolic acid helps the most pregnant women, Favoring and contributing to the healthy development of the fetus.

sunflower seeds

These seeds are also rich in fiber, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, selenium, zinc, manganese and linoleic acid

Let's use them in the kitchen

In addition to using them to garnish dishes, salads or smoothies, it is also possible to make an excellent one sunflower seed bread or biscuits, buns, crackers and even breadsticks. To make them crispy and enhance their flavor, they can be toasted for a few minutes in a non-stick pan or in the oven, at a temperature not exceeding 160 ° C. On the market they are often also already toasted and salted, but in order not to frustrate their many benefits the advice is to buy them naturally and then toast them.

Not easy to find, it is always better to choose seeds from organic farming, to be certain that the flowers from which they were derived have not been treated by the use of pesticides.

3 easy recipes with sunflower seeds

Tonnarelli recipe cacio e pepe, a recipe from Via Carota – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

750 g fresh tonnarelli pasta (spaghetti alla chitarra)
165 g grated Pecorino Romano Dop
100 g butter
30 g black peppercorns
salt

Duration: 30 min

Level: Middle

Dose: 6 people

For the recipe of tonnarelli cacio e pepe, bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil, filling it less than normal (to concentrate the amount of starch); dip the pasta and stir frequently. Drain al dente, preserving the cooking water. Meanwhile, collect the butter and pepper, ground, in a large pan over high heat. Stir for a couple of minutes. Dilute then with 300 g of cooking water, bring to the boil and stir from time to time, for another 3 minutes.
Then add the pasta and another 300 g of its cooking water, raise the heat and stir vigorously (to extract the starch) until the sauce thickens (it will take about 5 minutes). Remove the pan from the heat and add 200 g of pasta cooking water. Add the pecorino and sauté vigorously until the dressing is very creamy (if necessary, add more water). Serve immediately, adding more pecorino as desired.
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