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#ilLatoDolceDiRana: Sweet ravioli with chocolate and custard – Italian Cuisine

A new contest of La Cucina Italiana begins with Giovanni Rana: taking part is easy and… sweet!

Would you like to see your recipe published on La Cucina Italiana?
Here is an opportunity to try!

La Cucina Italiana has indeed launched a contest with Giovanni Rana for creative and original cooking i sweet ravioli with chocolate, a new and limited edition product thanks to which you can offer an incredible dessert in a few minutes or indulge in imaginative creations, to be combined with fruit, whipped cream, candied fruit and spices.
Do you know what the beautiful thing is?
The recipes are always fast and within everyone's reach. Instead, what is needed is a little inventiveness. But we will help you in this too!

Follow our suggestions and participate.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IN BRIEF

Create your recipe with Giovanni Rana's Sweet Ravioli with Chocolate and your favorite ingredients.
Prepare it, plate it up and take a nice photo of the ingredients.
Post the photo on Instagram with the hashtag #ilLatoDolceDiRana telling us your recipe.
Tag @giovanniranaita, @lacucinaitaliana and someone special you want to dedicate dessert to.
You have until December 31, 2021.
Read the regulation in detail.

Before starting, we recommend that you look at our recipes

The pastry chef of La Cucina Italiana has created five simple and delicious desserts using the new sweet ravioli with chocolate by Giovanni Rana and many delicious seasonal ingredients. We observed it, took notes of the passages, and we tell you about them to inspire you.

A sweet sprint

You will immediately realize that to cook sweet ravioli with Rana chocolate you need very little time (1 minute to fry them and 6 to sauté them in butter) and a lot of imagination to season them, garnish them and serve them in a different way.

You are ready?

After reading and experimenting with the recipes of La Cucina Italiana, invent your own. Prepare the dessert, plate it up and photograph it, highlighting the ingredients you have chosen and using plates and tablecloths that enhance it.

How to write the post for Instagram

Post the photo of your dessert on your Instagram profile with the hashtag #theSweetSideOfRanto. Dedicate it to someone special to you, tag it and explain why.

An important note: participation in the initiative is not subject to the purchase of the product and the photograph can portray the combined ingredients and not necessarily the ravioli.

The most creative recipe
By 31 December 2020, the editorial staff of La Cucina Italiana chooses the most creative post or the one with the most original or delicious recipe. But it doesn't stop there.

The author is invited to perform his recipe in the kitchen of the Pastificio Rana in Verona, with a photographer documenting the preparation: the dish and the cook thus become the protagonists of an advertorial article in the February 2021 issue of La Cucina Italiana.

This year, however – we know it well – is a bit different than usual, and projects often have to adapt to the limitations caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. If it is not possible to take the shots in Giovanni Rana's headquarters, the editorial staff of La Cucina Italiana will interpret the best recipe, and an interview with the author and his photo will be included in the dedicated advertorial.

Don't forget that sweet ravioli have a big heart

Before moving on to the recipes, we remind you that the sweet ravioli with Rana chocolate are not only tasty to eat, but they are good for you. In other words, they are good on the inside for their unexpected and greedy taste, and they are good on the outside because they support those most in need through a solidarity project. In fact, for each package purchased of sweet ravioli with chocolate, Pastificio Rana will donate two fresh products from its line to Banco Alimentare, which will distribute them to charitable structures throughout the Italian territory, to bring a moment of joy and goodness to people's tables. more in difficulty. "

Our recipe: Sweet ravioli with chocolate stir-fried with vanilla custard, ladyfingers alchermes and raspberries

Duration: 45 min
Level: Easy
Servings: 4 people

INGREDIENTS
A pack of sweet ravioli with Rana chocolate
500 g whole milk
240 g ladyfingers
70 g sugar
20 g butter
18 g corn starch
1 vanilla pod
4 egg yolks
4 tablespoons of alchermes
Cocoa powder

PREPARATION
Prepare the custard
In a saucepan, heat the milk with the vanilla. Meanwhile, in a bowl separate the yolks from the whites. Mix with the 60 g of sugar and 15 g of corn starch.
When the milk boils, remove the vanilla, pour it over the egg yolks and mix. Put the mixture back into the saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly, making sure that no lumps form, until it becomes a soft cream. Turn off the heat and let it cool.
Cook the ravioli in a pan with 20 g of butter, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 300 g of water for 6 minutes.
Divide the custard into four bowls. In each, lay two sautéed ravioli on top. Add some pieces of ladyfingers sprinkled with alchermes and a sprinkling of cocoa.

#ilLatoDolceDiRana: Sweet ravioli with chocolate sautéed with whipped cream and exotic fruit – Italian Cuisine

A new contest of La Cucina Italiana begins with Giovanni Rana: taking part is easy and… sweet!

Have you ever thought of dedicating to someone a dessert invented and made by you instead of the usual song on the radio? Certainly you will amaze him and you will breach his heart. And we offer you the opportunity with the new contest of La Cucina Italiana with Giovanni Rana.

Not surprisingly, the title is #theSweetSideDiRana, because your mission is to create a delicious dessert, but also to make a gesture of love towards someone special for you: in love, friend, idol … whoever you want. Think about this person while choosing the ingredients and how to compose them in an inviting dish, good and made with love, explain it and post on your Instagram profile.

Are you ready to participate? It's that easy.

Here's what you need to do

A few examples of inspiration The pastry chef of La Cucina Italiana has created five simple and delicious desserts using Giovanni Rana's new sweet ravioli with chocolate and many delicious ingredients.

Now it's your turn. You create your recipe with surprising ingredients and combinations.
Prepare it, plate it, garnish it and take a nice photo.

How to write the post for Instagram

Post the photo on your Instagram profile with the hashtag #theSweetSideDiRana, tag the person you dedicated the dessert to and tell why.

An important note: participation in the initiative is not subject to the purchase of the product and the photograph can portray the ingredients combined and not necessarily the ravioli.

The most creative recipe

By 31 December 2020, the editorial staff of La Cucina Italiana chooses the most creative post or the one with the most original or delicious recipe. But it doesn't stop there.

If it is not possible to take the shots in Giovanni Rana's headquarters due to Covid-19, the editorial staff of La Cucina Italiana will interpret the best recipe, and an interview with the author and his photo will be included in the dedicated advertorial.

Don't forget that sweet ravioli have a big heart

What we have prepared for you:

Sweet ravioli with chocolate sautéed with sprigs of whipped cream with exotic fruit

Duration: 30 min
Level: Easy
Servings: 4 people

INGREDIENTS
2 packs of ravioli with Rana chocolate
250 g fresh cream
125 g raspberries
20 g butter
4/5 kumquat
12 alchechengi
Almonds
Mint leaves
Sugar and powdered sugar

PREPARATION
Whip the cream with two tablespoons of powdered sugar.
Cook the ravioli in a pan with 20 g of butter, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 300 g of water for 6 minutes.
Place the ravioli on an oval plate. Arrange the cream in sprigs with the pastry bag garnishing with 8 raspberries, mint, slices of kumquat and alchechengi. Add a sprinkling of powdered sugar.

Dark or white chocolate brownies – Italian Cuisine

They are the most loved American dessert ever along with muffins. But to eat them you don't need to go to the United States, making them at home is really simple

THE Brownies I'm a typical American dessert very widespread in the Anglo-Saxon world and now known and appreciated even within our borders. Squares, chocolaty, with a thin crust out but from tender heart, they almost resemble a biscuit. If we can taste them today, it is thanks to the lady Bertha Palmer, a wealthy Chicago woman who, in 1893, expressed to her pastry chef a desire to have "lady cakes", as good as pie, but comfortable enough to be placed in a box, just like cookies.

Together with the muffins, brownies from the coffee shop window wink at the greedy patrons at any time of day. To enjoy it today, you don't need to go to the United States. Just enter any "American style" bar to have a feast. Or you can prepare at home both in "brown" version ("brown ", hence the name) with the dark chocolate or, why not, in that white with the milk chocolate. No yeast needed and the Preparation is very simple.

Chocolate brownies, the original recipe

The ingredients for the "brown" version they are 100 grams of butter, 200 grams of dark chocolate, four eggs, 250 grams of sugar, 120 grams of flour, 30 grams of cocoa powder and a pinch of salt. If desired, to make the brownies even tastier, you can also add some hazelnuts or nuts. First preheat the oven at 180 ° C. Then chop the chocolate and put it to melt a water bath. After a few minutes add the butter and mix the two ingredients. Once both are completely melted, remove from heat and let it cool. In another bowl beat with electric whips eggs with sugar. Add the salt and, gradually, the butter and chocolate mixture, the sifted flour, the cocoa and, if necessary, the chopped nuts. Mix everything and pour the mixture into one baking tray lined with parchment paper. Level the mixture with a spatula and cook at 180 ° C for 25 minutes.

White chocolate brownies

An equally delicious variant is that without cocoa, with the White chocolate and the almonds instead of hazelnuts. The ingredients and the procedure are the same as in the classic version. The only dose to adjust is that of sugar, which should be reduced by 50-70 grams because white chocolate is already very sweet in itself. Another trick, to prevent the crust from darkening too much, is to cover the pan with a sheet of aluminum foil before putting it in the oven.