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Molise baked pasta – Italian Cuisine

“This recipe represents mine Molise roots, very important, profound, never forgotten . It is full of memories there baked pasta from Dominga (in honor of grandfather Domenico) Lion, twenty-six years old, raised in Parma, a Chinese degree recently obtained in Venice. «My family is from Irsina, near Matera. The dish I am telling is in fact the one that the maternal grandmother Lucia, called Mamma Cia, always prepared on September 16, for the feast of the patron saint, Santa Eufemia. We also put dried sausage cubes inside, a local specialty. The secret? A generous sauce with which the layers of pasta are then sprinkled, which in fact ends cooking in the sauce. Even my boyfriend is crazy about it, he too of Molise origins, who as a child stole the tiny ones from his grandmother fried meatballs, one of the ingredients that make up the recipe. On the other hand, I remember certain late awakenings, on Sundays, when, instead of coffee with milk and a croissant, we had breakfast making the shoe in the famous sauce, the aroma of which permeated the air. A poem".

Baked cheese with honey – Italian Cuisine

Two ingredients that go perfectly together and that can turn into a real treat for the palate. Try our recipes with baked cheese

If you are a lover of cheese platters with honey and jams, you will go crazy for these recipes in which cheese is the protagonist and is baked in the oven with honey, dried and fresh fruit and many other delicious ingredients.

Here are the most irresistible recipes with this combination.

Baked camembert with honey

This second is simply extraordinary if you love melting sweet cheeses.
You can use a form of brie or camembert and put it in the oven to cook with slices of abate pear with the peel
inside a not too large terracotta dish.
Season everything with a mix of extra virgin olive oil and honey and scented with thyme leaves.
You can also use other seasonal fruit if you prefer, such as i figs as long as they are there.
Bake for 10 minutes at 180 ° and then serve the cheese that has melted inside with plenty of honey and with breadsticks or croutons to sink into the warm heart.

Baked ricotta

Alone two ingredients to serve a second course, but also a truly unusual and tasty dessert.
This is the ricotta baked with the honey.
To prepare it, just place a whole cow's milk ricotta in a small pan and season it with plenty of wildflower honey or chestnut honey, if you prefer a more intense flavor.
Cook it at 200 ° for about 25 minutes, until it becomes colorful.
Serve warm with hazelnuts And chopped walnuts coarsely and this is a great appetizer to present with grape and figs as an accompaniment, but also a dessert served with a sprinkling of cinnamon and dark chocolate flakes.

Strudel with pecorino cheese, spicy provolone and honey

Another recipe that can be prepared in an instant and that makes a great impression is this savory strudel, perfect for an appetizer and second course.
Use a puff pastry or shortcrust pastry base with a fork and place slices of semi-seasoned pecorino and spicy provolone in the center.
Season everything with honey and add a crunchy part: walnuts or hazelnuts or pine nuts.
Close the strudel and cook it at 180 ° in a static oven for 35 minutes.

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The benefits of the baked apple – Italian Cuisine

Pleasant when it's cold outside, baked apple with its properties promotes digestion and fights lazy intestines

A little more than fruit, a little less than a dessert, sweet and lukewarm, as a snack or at the end of a meal, baked apple it's a real one comfort food on cold days.

The properties of the apple

Protagonist of autumn and winter, the apple in itself contains vitamin C and minerals useful for the body (especially potassium which helps muscle tone) and has a moderate energy content that make it suitable for breakfast or a snack to decrease the sense of hunger (especially when we have to lose extra pounds) and prepare for a meal. The apple helps fight the cholesterol thanks to the soluble fiber of which it is rich, pectin, also promotes the diuresis eliminating the body's waste and is indicated in the case of intestinal disorders.

Baked apple: the benefits

A baked apple it can be, as we said, more greedy and comfortable. The cooked fruit is even more digestible and in turn favors the digestion, it also acts in an even more beneficial way onlazy intestine favoring its transit and acting like anti-inflammatory.
The baked apple is indicated when we are debilitated or convalescent, it is good for the elderly and for the children.

But remember that cooking reduces the amount of water in the apple, increasing the sugar concentration and decreasing the beneficial properties of the fruit. Therefore, it should be consumed in moderation, at breakfast or as a snack, combining it, as the expert suggested here, with good fats, such as dried fruit, which slow down the assimilation of rapidly absorbed sugars, or to protein foods such as Greek yogurt, which facilitate the sense of satiety.