Tag: chocolate

Neros recipe, cocoa biscuits with dark chocolate ganache and pistachios – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

From the menu Christmas of Castel Steinbock, Villandro’s “inn” since 1750, in the heart of theSouth Tyrolhere is the recipe Nerossweets to serve as a pre-dessert or with afternoon tea.

They vaguely resemble lady’s kisses in appearance, but are richer than these: it is about cocoa biscuits which contain one dark chocolate ganachepartly covered with melted milk chocolate and, before this cools down, finish with chopped pistachios.

The recipe is of medium difficulty and requires two hours of preparation time.

Also discover: Dark chocolate cookie, Kisses from Piedmontese ladies.

Christmas Calzoncelli recipe, the fried desserts of Basilicata – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

In the list of regional Christmas sweetswe find i shorts: also called “Christmas pastries”, they are prepared during the holidays throughout the country Basilicataespecially in the province of Salerno, in the Sannio Beneventano area and in Irpinia.

It’s about fried ravioli with sweet filling: the dough is made with flour, egg, lard sugar and is flavored with vanilla and cinnamon, while the filling is prepared with chickpeas And chestnuts passed through a food mill to which melted chocolate, sugar, cocoa, grated lemon zest, chopped mandarin peel and, to taste, some liqueur are added.

The closed ravioli are then fried in peanut oil and served with icing sugar. Try our recipe.

mania | The Italian kitchen – Italian Cuisine

Chocolate-mania? Here is some news for lovers of one of the most loved ingredients. So much so that the Armani Bamboo bar in Milan dedicates a chocolate snack to him and it is the new formula for a pleasant break, on the seventh floor of the Armani Hotel Milan. For three days a week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm, the restaurant’s menu leaves room for three different types of hot chocolate in a cup combined with four mini desserts. Guests will be able to choose from a range of chocolates in the cup with different aromas, from the strongest to the most delicate, for a sensorial journey to discover the flavors of the producing countries. But chocolate also entices the world of mixing: here comes beer, rum and the liqueur that makes chocolate its essence.

The chocolate snack at the Armani Hotel in Milan

And again, for the more goumand, the grater to obtain flakes and curls without the need to temper, the Bonet from Piedmont which is made chocolate according to the creativity of Chiambretto, an ancient Turin pastry shop. But beer and rum also discover the intense notes of cocoa beans and Villa d’Este on Lake Como inaugurates the Chocolate Room, a chocolate room available to guests of the famous hotel on Lake Como where they can taste, starting from December 1st, a tea or coffee accompanied by sweet creations of haute patisserie and chocolate in particular. The Christmas Tree of Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Rome Hotel, which will set up a chocolate Christmas treewho will meet daily for a sweet snack with hot chocolate.