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Puffed spelled sweets recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Do you want to prepare one with us homemade snack, simple and delicious, which can also be transformed into a nice end to a meal? Let’s do the puffed spelled sweets.

You may have tasted them packaged a few times, but homemade will certainly have an extra taste, that of satisfaction! THE children they will certainly appreciate it, but even the older ones will be fascinated by it.

You only need two ingredients, emmer blown and dark chocolate: melt the chocolate, mix it with the spelled and then spread the mixture into a baking dish, a few centimeters thick. Let it cool in the fridge for a few hours and then make some squares. If you want a variation, do the same thing using the White chocolate.

Recipe Barese focaccia, the scent of a city – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Impossible to resist the temptation, passing through Bari, to stop at a bakery to buy – and then bite into – a piece of focaccia Barese. Tall, soft, tasty, seasoned with fresh tomatoes, it is the comfort food par excellence of the people of Bari and always appears in tourists’ lists of “things to eat in Puglia”.

However, if you don’t plan to pass through Bari and Puglia is not one of your next destinations, you shouldn’t give up: making Bari focaccia at home as tradition dictates is quite simple, with our recipe.

How is focaccia from Bari born?

The focaccia from Bari – despite its name – actually has its origins in Altamura, where it was probably born from the need to exploit the strong initial heat of the wood-fired oven, before it reached the ideal temperature for baking bread. In fact, before putting the loaves of Altamura bread in the oven, a piece of raw dough was spread out on a baking tray, left to rest for a while, then seasoned and cooked.

How is focaccia from Bari made?

In its most typical form, focaccia dough is prepared by stirring semolina regrind, potatoes boil, salt, yeast and water to obtain a rather elastic consistency, soft but not sticky. This dough is left to rise, spread out in a round pan greased with plenty of extra virgin olive oil, then it is left to rise again, seasoned and finally cooked, preferably in a wood-fired oven. Here is the traditional recipe.

Recipe Recipe: prawns in spiced salt – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Stir-fried, boiled, grilled? The correct recipe for prawns tasty, juicy and which retain all the taste of the sea, we have it. It’s this one, the one with prawns in spiced salt. A preparation as simple as it is delicious, always good, perfect when the prawns are in season and at their best.

What is the prawn season?

Prawns are rather common crustaceans that are usually fished with trawl nets all year round in our seas. The best period to enjoy them, however, is from October to April, when prawn fishing tends to be concentrated.

How to understand if the prawns are fresh?

The perfect success of the recipe for prawns in spiced salt, needless to say, depends on the quality of the prawns. But how to understand if the prawns are fresh? First of all, you need to check the smell with your sense of smell: all fish, in general, must smell of the sea, and never have an unpleasant odor. The meat must then be compact, not soft, the head must be well attached to the body as well as the antennas. The eyes of the prawns must then be shiny, as well as the shell.