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Shrimp cocktail recipe, chef Perbellini’s recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Step 1

Clean the lettuce by removing the fibrous parts. Keep the innermost and tender leaves aside.

Step 2

Using an immersion blender, blend 60 g of leaves with 20 g of vinegar, the pasteurized egg white, a pinch of salt and a pinch of pepper. Gradually add the sunflower oil until the mixture forms like mayonnaise.

Step 3

Boil the milk with the cream, then add the grated ricotta and emulsify with a mixer until you obtain a creamy consistency.

Step 4

Sear the prawns in a pan with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil for a few seconds on each side.

Step 5

Arrange the inner leaves of the lettuce in the bowls. Pour 1 tablespoon of lettuce mayonnaise in the center and 4 prawns on the leaves. Complete with drops of ketchup and tufts of ricotta cream.

Recipe: Giancarlo Perbellini, Photo: Chiara Cadeddu, Styling: Maddalena Rosso

Non-alcoholic cocktail recipe Mandarin, pear, truffle: the recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

If you are looking for a non-alcoholic drink but with character, discover the recipe Cocktail Mandarin, pear, truffle. When tasted it reveals itself to be fragrant and decisive, brings with it a good dose of vitamin joy and goes well with red meats, game or a selection of blue cheeses.

The cocktail is a creation of Elton Zequiraj, bartender who was born in Albania and moved to Sicily at a very young age to finally settle in Turin. After a long experience in the world of hospitality as a bar manager and maître, in 2020 he launched LeGar Unplugged Mixology. The idea? Enhance the qualities of the ingredients in drinks without too much processing or extra additions and above all by eliminating refined sugars.

Also discover these recipes: Santiago sour, Cocktail Romeo, Whisky, pear and beetroot

Dry January, what it is and soft drinks to try – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Here we are in full Dry January, and if we talk about it this year it is also thanks to the French president Emmanuel Macron, who has just said he is against the idea of institutionalizing the initiative: an invitation not to drink alcohol for an entire month, January in fact. For him, a well-known lover of good drinking, it is not necessary to officially promote abstinence from alcohol, but his stance has sparked a controversy of international dimensions which has involved enthusiasts and expert commentators.

What is Dry January

What is certain is that the position of the French president goes against the trend: now almost all over the world there is a race to prove the benefits of Dry Januaryan initiative born in England in 2013 thanks to the athlete Emily Robinson and the association Alcohol Change UK, British body that raises awareness of the effects of alcohol. One way to promote the conscious use of alcohol, to remind everyone of the risks of use and abuse, and to invite even moderate drinkers to experience what it is like to do without it for a symbolic period, giving their liver a break. In fact, many studies have demonstrated the advantages of alcohol abstinence are many, even in the short term as well as in the long term, and which reflect on everyone’s physical and mental well-being.

The new trend of non-alcoholic drinks

So, password: lighten. How many years have we heard it? Many. Yet she never goes out of fashion, on the contrary (rightly) she renews herself by adapting to the evolution of the times. For this reason, even the world of mixing has now been involved in the process and it is difficult to imagine a cocktail bar that is not able to offer low-alcohol drinks and mocktails (a neologism that derives from the portmanteau of two words mock = fake + cocktail).

What are the new alcohol-free drinks like?

The good news is that the era of syrupy long drinks based on fruit juices and smoothies has been replaced, or enriched, by that of fermented products such as kombucha (sparkling teas that could replace bubbles) and switchel (an invigorating mix based of apple cider vinegar, ginger, honey and lemon), from fruit and vegetable extracts, from sodas offered in every imaginable flavor and above all from non-alcoholic spirits.

The new alcohol-free products

In Italy and around the world this trend is naturally reflected on the market and on the choice of large groups (and small producers) to have one or more alcohol-free products in their catalogue. From 2015, the year of debut of Seedlip (the line of non-alcoholic spirits, distributed by Diageo, which is by far the best known and served in cocktail bars), to today the panorama has rapidly enriched itself, so much so that forecasts speak of a growth of 400% for the next few years.