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cheese balls for the festive aperitif – Italian Cuisine

cheese balls for the festive aperitif


A fun and tasty idea to share at the center of the table. Classic, with spring onion or gorgonzola: here's how to prepare and serve them

A appetizer-aperitif very quick and scenic to prepare for Christmas and the cheeseball.
It is called that because it is really one ball of spreadable cheese to decorate with chopped nuts and serve with croutons and crackers.

Cheeseball: easy and scenic

Preparing the cheeseball is very simple because you just need to mix a spreadable cheese Philadelphia, or goat or ricotta cheese, with more aged and grated cheeses such as emmental, ceddar or fontina. In this way the compound becomes more compact and can be transformed into a sphere.
The great thing about this super easy recipe is that you can play with creativity.
In fact, you can also add other ingredients such as chopped dried fruit or dehydrated fruit like dried figs, cranberries and raisins.
In addition to this you can play with spices choosing between chilli and paprika for a spicy taste, curry and turmeric for an ethnic scent, cinnamon and ginger for those who cannot give up making everything Christmas.
Even the herbs they can add color and aroma and so you can opt for mint, oregano, basil and chives.

Classic cheeseball

To make a very simple cheeseball, mix 300 g of spreadable cheese with 100 g of grated Parmesan, a pinch of pepper and some chopped walnuts.
Put the mixture in the cling film and give it a spherical shape.
Leave cool in the refrigerator for a few hours and then remove the film and roll the cheese ball in the chopped pistachios and hazelnuts, or pecans and pistachios, or whatever you prefer.
Obviously, if the mixture is too soft, just add grains or grated cheese to "dry" it a little.

Onion cheeseball

For the onion version just add a onion chopped and stewed in a pan with oil and salt.
Having a sweeter taste, you can play with an interesting contrast, perhaps spicy, with an intensely flavored aged cheese or a pinch of chilli.

Gorgonzola cheeseball

If you love blue and very tasty cheeses, use a mix of gorgonzola, mascarpone and spreadable cheese and add some grated Parmesan. You can add dried figs or chopped dates or raisins because a sweet contrast is perfect.
And then don't forget also in this case a crunchy part based on almond flakes for a scenographic effect in the "breading".

How to serve the cheeseball for a Christmas aperitif

Arrange it in the center of a nice serving dish with some craker around that your guests will then use to take their portion of cheese.
You can also prepare gods toasted croutons with oil and herbs in a pan, or you can heat one flat bread and cut it into strips, or even one piadina.
You can also place the cheese ball on a bed of rocket or songino simply seasoned with a pinch of salt and a drizzle of oil.

Browse the tutorial for more tips on making cheeseballs

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Christmas balls, the most beautiful of 2020 – Italian Cuisine

Christmas balls, the most beautiful of 2020


Transparencies, precious materials and a pinch of irony. Here are the perfect Christmas balls to decorate an unforgettable tree

This is the year of early decorated Christmas trees. VIPs and influencers do not miss the opportunity to post them on Instagram, even from Milan where the tradition of waiting for Sant’Ambrogio seems not to take root in a year so complex and different from all the others. And U.S? We are thinking about it.
In fact, in the year of uncertainties, it is a lot the desire for lights, garlands and candles, capable of warming everyone's heart, to fill our homes with joy and to soften a little the tense atmosphere that reigns due to the Covid-19 emergency. And if it is not possible in all regions to go to furniture and gift shops in search of ideas and new ideas, the e-shops come to our aid, active and functioning this year more than ever!
It will thus be possible to buy beautiful new and fun Christmas balls with a few clicks, imagining how unique and beautiful our tree can become thanks to these decorations.
Among the most interesting trends spotted (which we also propose in the gallery above) the funny and ironic balls which represent our favorite foods, but also rainbows and angry gingerbread men. Then there is a return to glass balls, with a timeless vintage charm and an abundance of precious transparencies that decorate our tree with class and elegance.

Find your favorites in the gallery above!

Aebleskivers: the Danish pancake balls – Italian Cuisine

Aebleskivers: the Danish pancake balls


They are called Aebleskivers and they are the very famous Danish pancakes. Maybe you didn't know they were called that, but you will surely have seen them sometime.
They are different from the classic ones first of all in shape and then because they are prepared in one cast iron pot very particular.
We will tell you well!

Pancake balls

Danish pancakes have a very particular shape because they are spherical, in fact they are also called Pancake balls.
This is because they are not cooked in a normal non-stick pan like classic pancakes, but in one pan that has hollows inside into which the mixture is poured.
You can easily find it online or in stores specializing in products for the kitchen and pastry.

The base

The basic compound of these pancakes is prepared with the same ingredients as classic pancakes, plus some additions.
We therefore have flour, baking soda and eggs, but also the buttermilk, orange juice and aromas like the cardamom which give these sweets a truly unique and unmistakable taste.

The recipe for Danish pancakes

Ingredients

450 g of 00 flour
400 ml of buttermilk
1 tbsp sugar
1 teaspoon of baking powder or baking soda
3 eggs
an orange
seed oil
cardamom

Method

First separate the yolks from the whites.
Mix the yolks with the juice of half an orange, buttermilk and 3 tablespoons of oil.
Separately, mix the flour with the sugar, cardamom, orange zest and baking powder.
Beat the egg whites until stiff and then add the liquid ingredients to the buckets and finally the egg whites.
Let the mixture rest for a few minutes and in the meantime heat the pan on the stove after greasing it a little.
Pour the mixture into the grooves without filling them completely and cook for three minutes on medium-low heat.
Then with a toothpick, turn all the balls to the other side and cook for another two minutes.

How to serve vegan pancakes

The Aebleskivers they should be eaten hot sprinkled with plenty of icing sugar, but they can also be accompanied by a good one red fruit jam, like raspberries or currants, because the contrast between the sweetness of the dough and the acidity of the fruit creates an extraordinary encounter.

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