Cheese balls, lasagnette, bruschetta, spaghetti and cheesecake: 5 dishes that have ricotta as the main ingredient and can all be prepared quickly without having to cook them!
With the ricotta cheese you can prepare a thousand recipes, but we want to propose you in this article five, easy, fast and above all without cooking. No stoves, no oven and no barbecue, we use pure ricotta enriching it with many other seasonal ingredients.
From appetizer to dessert, a perfect summer menu that we are certain will win you over.
Choose a ricotta of excellent quality, that is of cow or sheep it depends on you and your tastes. The important thing is that it is freshand unpackaged. If you like and if you have time, you can also prepare the homemade ricotta cheese . Read here how to do it.
Cheese balls
A finger food which can hardly be resisted. Just mix the ricotta with the same amount of robiola or other cheese spreadable and then add a pinch of salt and pepper and grated Parmesanjust enough to reach a consistency to be shaped with your hands. Then balls are formed as big as nuts and roll in pistachios or sweet paprika . They break up cool in the refrigerator for about two hours and then served alone or with croutons.
Lasagnette of carasau
Would you ever say that you can prepare a first without turning on stoves and oven? These lasagna will amaze you. That's enough soften the carasau bread sheets for a second in a bowl of water and then lay them in layers inside a transparent baking dish alternating with one cream made with ricotta, salt, lemon peel, extra virgin olive oil and basil chopped with a knife and a diced tomatoes simply seasoned with oil and salt. The secret is to sift the ricotta well to make it soft and if you want a lighter consistency, blend it with a little milk.
Let cool the lasagna in the fridgeand then serve it as if it were a hot dish perhaps accompanied by a teaspoon of pesto.
Cucumber Spaghetti
By now the vegetable spaghetti are the must of summer 2016. They are prepared like those of zucchini that we have already talked about many times, using a special tool that cuts the vegetables like spaghetti . Season them with some ricotta cheese, avocado cubes, black olives and cherry tomatoes. Complete with fresh aromatic herbslike oregano and basil.
Bruschetta
We have already talked about how many bruschettas can be prepared with ricotta. From sweet to savory you can indulge yourself with fresh seasonal fruit, dried fruit and vegetables of all kinds, fresh or in oil. You don't necessarily have to use toasted bread, a slice of good fresh crunchy bread is fine too.
Cheesecake in a jar
This sweet will be your salvation when you have unexpected guests at dinner. You simply have to chop some biscuits (the biscuits you prefer) together with almonds or walnuts. Put this mixture on the bottom of small glass jars and cover with a mousse prepared by mixing whipped cream and sieved ricotta and sweetened with honey or hazelnut cream . Complete with fresh fruit or jamto taste.
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