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Carnival pancakes: 10 delicious recipes – Italian Cuisine

Carnival it's the happiest party of the year. What better opportunity, then, to indulge in some ghiottissimo sin of gluttony, sugary and appetizing? Here are 10 recipes of tasty pancakes and appetizing, to brighten the party of the little ones but also the palate of the adults.

For a tasty snack that will make the most sweet children happy, try cooking them fruit pancakes with chocolate soup: swollen and golden sweets, fried, with a pear flavor, are accompanied by a chocolate cream decorated with milk foam.

Very easy and quick to prepare (you need 30 minutes), with an unusual and inviting flavor pineapple fritters with beer will surprise your guests: the batter in which the pineapple slices are wrapped is based on flour, beer, milk and acacia honey.

Do you want to cook a delicious dessert with an enveloping taste? Bring the table to the table spicy pancakes with yogurt: these are dough swivels, formed with the pastry bag, fried and sprinkled with a sweet spicy syrup.

More classic, le apple fritters they are a sweet traditional Italian that immediately gives a warm party atmosphere.

Fragrant and soft, the Sweet pancakes almonds have an unexpected mixture of almond flour, eggs, sugar, melted butter, amaretto liqueur and … pumpkin flowers.

You can also indulge yourself with hot pastries filled with super ghiotti stuffs small flowers in cotognata, choreographic Carnival sweets with a gelatinous filling and a quince flavor; or try i sweet ravioli sprinkle with granulated sugar and served with forest fruits and raspberry coulis; the apricot ginger tortelli, passed in the lime sugar and left to warm before serving, will thrill the guests of all ages.

They can not miss them sfrappole, strips of pastry knotted in the center and fried, typical of the Carnival, here with the taste of grappa and served with mascarpone cream.

You will wonder: why all this raging of fried, at Carnival? Soon said: Carnival has always been the party of transgressions; according to the most ancient traditions, in the wake of Roman saturnals, it is the period in which chaos temporarily takes the place of the established order. It precedes the Catholic Lent, the period of penance of forty days in preparation for Easter, so in this period of time it was allowed to give vent to all the cravings and sins of the throat (the confessor closed one eye).

Carnival: savory recipes | Salt and pepper – Italian Cuisine

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We know it and you can also agree: Carnival is one of those parties where it is pleasant to eat sugary and tasty sweets, starting with the famous and much-loved small talk. But, given that the opportunity is delicious and that we always like to experiment with new flavors, looking for tasty and unusual recipes to prepare in these days of great celebrations is a bit 'our mission. And since we wanted to give to Carnival a totally new taste, we thought to bet on a pinch of salt and to choose ten savory recipes to try at Carnival.

It's about a top ten that allows us to try unexpected and creative recipes or to explore the culinary traditions of the different Italian regions, to discover dishes that base their roots in typical characteristics handed down over time. As in the case of Maternal rafanata, typical specialty of the province of Matera, also common in the Potentino area, similar to an oven-baked omelette: the mixture is made of boiled and crushed potatoes, grated pecorino cheese and horseradish. Here's the tasty one Carnival focaccia salentina, better known as Fucazza de carnuale salentina: it is a salty cake to be served lukewarm, with a filling of pork loin, onion, tomatoes and cheeses.

There focaccia rolled up in Sicily it is called sfigghiulata, in Campania tortano: it is served as a bread and can serve as an appetizer, a slice of the buffet, a snack or a snack.

For the delicacies to eat almost in a mouthful, one by one, you can indulge yourself: the delicious cream puffs stuffed with artichokes, first salt and anchovies are fried and served hot; the polenta bars, of peasant origin and also fried, are served just drained, along with the growth, in a pleasant contrast of heat and cold; the balls with mixed herbs they are typical frites of the Ligurian area, very aromatic (with the scent of marjoram, mint and rosemary) to be served as an aperitif. THE balls of prawns they are the most cheerful way to make vegetables eat even the smallest: the shrimp tails are wrapped in strips of zucchini and carrots battered and then fried. Sprinkled with a pinch of curry mixed with salt are super appetizing.

The crispy pastry with vegetables and cheese they are perfect for a carnival party, for a cheerful buffet or for an aperitif.

These are some of the many different savory carnival recipes to try these days and to serve on the table during the day of celebration. We are sure that young and old will not be disappointed.

Italian carnival cakes: recipes – Italian Cuisine

Time to Carnival, time for pancakes. Like any self-respecting party and as always imposes the tradition, even during the Carnival days every single Italian region brings to the table its favorite recipes, the classic and timeless desserts and the irresistible pancakes. And like any self-respecting holiday, every Italian region customizes its recipes, giving life to dishes with aromas and flavors that meet the tastes of adults and children and take different names and forms depending on the places of origin.

In this top ten of Sale & Pepe, dedicated to the traditional Italian desserts to be prepared during Carnival parties, we tour the country to find out the names and forms of the recipes of our country and discover how it is celebrated in each region.

It starts with the classic and loved crispy lies, accompanied by hot zabaglione served in cups or cups. We continue with the ghiotte castagnole with sugar, crispy outside and very soft inside, fried balls decorated with granulated sugar to taste hot and fragrant and eat in one bite, one after the other.

We then move on to the crostoli filled with jam, Carnival dessert typical of Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia with a greedy cherry heart. And then the irresistible ones donuts with Vin Santo, to serve hot and just sprinkled with granulated sugar.

THE ravioli with ricotta cheese? We usually think of this dish as a first course, but in the recipe we propose, on the contrary, they are delicious sweets typical of southern Italy, particularly of western Sicily, also called "fried waterfalls". To make them special a sweet and delicious soft heart made of ricotta, candied pumpkin and chocolate, perfumed with vanilla seeds, lemon peel and cinnamon.

On the same length of gluttony, there are the sweet ravioli with a filling of berries, accompanied by a delicious raspberry sauce.
And then, here are the "cousins" of the chatter, the sfrappole with grappa, strips of fried dough, sprinkled with icing sugar and served with mascarpone cream.

THE fravioli they are typical of the Sicilian tradition: these too have a sweet ricotta filling, scented with cloves and cinnamon.
For some "streamers" to savor, the right recipe is that of the tagliolini with cream: very easy to prepare, they are laid on a delicate sauce of vanilla and decorated with icing sugar.

For an exotic splash, i semolina tortelli with coconut they are delicious and irresistible, thanks to the coconut milk cream that accompanies them.

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