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Milk sandwiches: recipe and how to color the sandwiches – Italian Cuisine

How to prepare soft milk rolls: try our recipe and fill them with hazelnut cream or ham and cheese! In addition, the recommendations of La Scuola de La Cucina Italiana for coloring sandwiches in a natural way

THE Sandwiches Milk I'm soft delicacies, ideal for a sweet or savory snack. Loved by young and old, perfect to be stuffed with spreadable creams, jams is jams. Their taste, however, is also suitable for savory fillings: those who have never tried milk sandwiches with cured meat is cheeses? The contrast with the slightly sweet taste of the milk sandwich will be pure enjoyment for the taste buds!

With a few modifications, these sandwiches can be transformed according to the occasion: by adding the chocolate chips they are a delicious breakfast or afternoon snack, with sesame seeds they become excellent hamburger bun.

Follow our basic recipe below and don't miss the advice of The Italian Cuisine School to color the milk sandwiches.

How to make milk sandwiches: the easy recipe

Ingredients for 8 people

300 g flour 0
150 g Manitoba flour
140 g milk
140 g water
35 g sugar
30 g butter
7 g dry brewer's yeast
1 yolk
oil
salt

Method

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl: flour, baking powder and sugar. Add the milk and water at room temperature and the soft butter. Start kneading the dough until the flour is incorporated and add 1 teaspoon of salt. Work the mixture for at least 10 minutes: it must become very elastic and smooth.

Place it in a bowl greased with a drizzle of oil and lightly grease the dough even on the surface. Cover and let rise for about 1 hour and a half.

On a floured surface, give the dough a cylindrical shape and divide it into 8 pieces. Make small balls with each piece and place them well apart on a baking tray lined with parchment paper, lightly greased with oil. Cover and let rise again for 1 hour.

Brush the rolls with a beaten egg yolk together with 2 tablespoons of milk. If you want to use them for a savory recipe, at this point you can sprinkle them with sesame, poppy or pumpkin seeds. Bake at 200 ° C for about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool.

You can keep the sandwiches in the freezer for 2 months, closed in airtight bags. Just defrost them just before use at room temperature!

How to color milk sandwiches

Milk rolls are possible to color easily thanks to the use of natural ingredients, a nice idea for a party or an aperitif. The possibilities are many: you can use the spinach puree to prepare a green sandwich, the beetroot puree for a pink bun, the sepia for a black sandwich and so on. In this case, just replace part of the water or milk, for example, with the vegetable puree (pre-cooked and smoothies).

If instead you use powders, just add a few grams to the flours (7-10 g): the turmeric will color them yellow, the paprika sweet will turn them into red buns, the matcha tea will make them greens.

How to color brioches – The School of Italian Cuisine – Italian Cuisine

Coloring is a technique that is also applied in the kitchen and pastry shop to make dishes more innovative and fun. Follow the advice of our chefs

At La Scuola de La Cucina Italiana our chefs always care about teaching technical because, once learned, you can use them in the preparation of many dishes, even different from each other. For example, here are the techniques for color the croissants, which you can also apply to other sweet or savory recipes.

Which dyes to use?

The croissants can be colored with various products, but the use of natural dyes. They are also much more effective than puree or fruit flours dehydrated or blended. Another way to color the croissants is to use the cocoa, which will obviously give a darker color. Finally, alternatively, you can also create a separate second dough with some special flours, such as that of buckwheat or wholemeal.

How to color the croissants?

The starting point is the same for all! So start with a basic recipe as if you had to prepare any brioche of about 2 kg, but remember to take from this single dough a small part of about 500 grams. Then proceed by coloring this part with About 5 grams of natural dye and continues to keep the two doughs separate. Continue to work the first dough like a brioche, then giving it two 3 and 4 folds with the butter; also roll out the other dough very finely, for about 2 mm. Then, at the last fold, spread the mixture about 5 mm and overlay the previously mixed colored dough. Finally, press the two sheets to make them stick together, shape the croissants and cook them and rise as the classic recipe requires.

A little trick?

If you don't use natural dyes but fruit purees or special flours, the secret lies in forming directly two doughs separated, so as to balance the colored one, since otherwise you would not be able to incorporate the purees in the only dough already made!

Are you a lover of the world of cooking? Check out our course calendar here and learn all the techniques from our chefs!

Texts by Giulia Ubaldi

how to bring the Pantone color of 2020 to the table – Italian Cuisine

Relaxing, elegant, but also a reassuring and solid color, a stable base from which to explore new horizons. It is Classic Blue, the Pantone color of the year, which can inspire us even in the kitchen!

Things to check atbeginning of the year: the horoscope, the calendar of holiday bridges, tax incentives, fashion trends, i food trend and the Pantone color. In fact, every year since 2000, the Pantone Institute – commercial division of the American company that invented the famous color classification – declares the "Color of the Year" which, for the following 365 days, will become a source of inspiration for stylists, interior designers, designers, but also for each of us.

2020: Classic Blue

If last year had been proclaimed on Living Coral, for the 2020 blue was chosen in its most classic shade. Classic Blue (code 19-4052 Pantone) is described as timeless and timeless, elegant in its simplicity. An honest color, easily recognizable, which offers a sense of protection.

According to the Pantone Institute, recalling the sky at dusk, the reassuring qualities of this stimulating color highlight our desire for one stable base from which to start as we prepare to cross the threshold of one new era. Not only that: impressing itself on our mind like a color relaxing, PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue offers shelter and instills in the human soul a sense of peace and quiet. This color then allows us to refocus our thoughts by facilitating concentration and providing an excellent clarity. Gradient of blue that invites reflection, Classic Blue favors the resiliency.

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How the color of the year is chosen

The color of the year is chosen by the experts after a careful evaluation and by trend analysis made in every corner of the Earth and taking cues from the influences that come from various areas (art, cinema, lifestyles, economics, social media, sports). "We live in an era that requires trust and hope," he explained Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. «Pantone Classic Blue is a shade we can always do on trust, conveys precisely this feeling of constancy and trust. With deep resonance, it forms a solid base to anchor. Boundless blue that recalls the vast and infinite evening sky, encourages us to look beyond the obvious to think more deeply and outside the box, broaden our horizons and encourage the flow of communication .

Classic Blue from the kitchen to the table

So let's see how to wear this color too in the kitchen and at the table for reassuring lunches, elegant dinners, traditional flavors, but also new flavors.
Browse our gallery to discover all Classic Blue foods!