A new contest of La Cucina Italiana begins with Giovanni Rana: taking part is easy and… sweet!
How to do it step by step
Create your recipe with Sweet Ravioli with Chocolate Rana
Prepare it and serve it up.
Take a nice photo of the ingredients next to the recipe ravioli dish.
Post the photo on Instagram with the hashtag #ilLatoDolceDiRana and tag a person to whom you want to dedicate the dessert. You have until December 31, 2021.
Read the regulation in detail.
First of all, read our recipes
The pastry chef de The Italian kitchen made five simple and delicious desserts using the new ones Sweet Ravioli with Chocolate by Giovanni Rana and many delicious ingredients.
Our recipes
A few minutes to cook them, fried or sautéed in a pan, and a lot of imagination to dress them, garnish them and serve them in an always different way. We in the editorial team have observed the pastry chef at work, took notes of the steps, and we tell you about them to inspire you.
Your idea
After trying the recipes of La Cucina Italiana, invent your own with surprising ingredients and combinations.
Done? Are you satisfied with the result?
Prepare the Sweet Ravioli with Chocolate in your own way, place them on the plate and garnish them with imagination.
Let's move on to the shooting
Prepare the set with a little flair. We advise you to highlight the ingredients you have chosen for your dessert and, just like we do, to use plates and tablecloths that enhance it.
How to write the post for Instagram
Choose the best photo and post it on your Instagram profile with the hashtag #theSweetSideDiRana. Dedicate your recipe to someone special, tag it and explain why you did it: love, friendship, inspiration… maybe it's your idol.
An important note: participation in the initiative is not subject to the purchase of the product and the photograph can portray the ingredients combined and not necessarily the ravioli.
The most creative recipe
By 31 December 2020, the editorial staff of La Cucina Italiana will choose the most creative post or the one with the most original or delicious recipe. But it doesn't end here …
The author will be invited to perform his recipe in the kitchens of Rana pasta factory in Verona, with a photographer who will document the preparation: the dish and the cook will thus become the protagonists of an advertorial article in the February 2021 issue of La Cucina Italiana.
This year, however – we know it well – is a bit different than usual, and projects often have to adapt to the limitations caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. If it is not possible to shoot in Giovanni Rana's headquarters, the editorial staff of La Cucina Italiana will interpret the best recipe, and an interview with the author and his photo will be included in the dedicated advertorial.
Don't forget that sweet ravioli have a big heart
Before moving on to the recipes, we remind you that the Sweet Ravioli with Chocolate Rana are not only tasty to eat, but they are good for you. In other words, they are good inside for their unexpected and greedy taste, and they are good on the outside because they support those most in need through a solidarity project. In fact, for each package purchased of Sweet Ravioli with Chocolate, Pastificio Rana will donate two fresh products to Food Bank, which will distribute them to the charitable structures present throughout the Italian territory, to bring a moment of joy and goodness to the table of the most difficult people.
Now let's get to the practice: here's what we have prepared for you!
Some ideas and technical advice on cooking will be useful before making your dessert later. Start with this, easy easy, proposed by the editorial staff of La Cucina Italiana.
Our recipe: Sweet ravioli skewers with chocolate, caramelized pineapple and dark chocolate
Ingredients
1 pack of sweet Ravioli with Giovani Rana chocolate
200 g pineapple, cut into cubes (you can also find it already cut in the supermarket)
120 g melted chocolate
sugar
Duration: 30 min
Level: Easy
Servings: 4 people
Preparation
Start with the sauce. Slowly melt the chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave. A recommendation: don't let it get too hot, to avoid burning it.
Put 2 tablespoons of sugar in a pan over very low heat. When it begins to melt and brown, add the pineapple pieces for about 1 minute to caramelize them.
Fry the ravioli in plenty of peanut oil at 180 ° C for 1 minute, until the surface is crisp. Drain them on kitchen paper to remove excess oil.
On a wooden stick alternate 2 ravioli and 3 pieces of caramelized pineapple.
Serve them still hot with a drop of melted chocolate. If chocolate is your passion, you can also abound to taste.
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