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Risotto with cream of potatoes and octopus – Italian Cuisine

»Risotto with cream of potatoes and octopus


First clean the octopus, put it in a large pot, cover it with plenty of water, add celery, carrot and onion cleaned, bring to a boil and cook for about 30 minutes.

In the meantime, peel the potatoes, wash them and cut them into cubes, then cover them with water and boil them for about 25-30 minutes (depending on the size of the cubes).

Once cooked, drain any extra water (they must not be too dry, so that it does not become too thick) and blend them with a blender.

Drain the octopus with a fork and let it cool.
Keep the cooking water and filter it: you will use it to cook the rice.

Cut it into pieces and brown it in a pan with plenty of oil.

In the meantime, toast the rice with a little butter, then blend with the wine, finally add the octopus cooking water a little at a time, until the rice is cooked.
stir in the potato cream and season with salt and pepper.

Finally add the octopus and chopped parsley, keeping some aside for decoration.

The potato and octopus cream risotto is ready: serve, decorate the dishes with the octopus and parsley set aside and serve.

Recipe Tortellini skewers in pea cream – Italian Cuisine

Recipe Tortellini skewers in pea cream


  • 200 g boiled peas
  • 80 g flour
  • 20 pcs tortellini
  • 1 pc yolk
  • butter
  • salt
  • Parmigiano Reggiano DOP
  • extra virgin olive oil

For the recipe of the tortellini skewers in pea cream, mix the flour, 20 g of grated Parmesan cheese and 20 g of butter with your hands, until you get a grainy mixture; mix the yolk, a pinch of salt and 1 tablespoon of water. Spread the dough on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake it at 180 ° C for 10 minutes; chop it coarsely, obtaining crumbs.
Blend the peas with 100 g of hot water and 1 tablespoon of oil. Cook the tortellini in salted boiling water for 3-4 minutes, drain and brown them in a pan with a knob of butter for 1 minute per side. Skewer the tortellini on 4 sticks, obtaining as many skewers of 5 pieces each. Serve the skewers with the pea cream and the parmesan crumbs.

Pain perdu recipe, chocolate and fruit ice cream – Italian Cuisine

Pain perdu recipe, chocolate and fruit ice cream


  • 250 g milk
  • 100 g dark chocolate
  • 100 g fresh cream
  • 50 g granulated sugar
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 200 g 4 slices of homemade bread
  • 100 g milk
  • 2 eggs
  • butter
  • 2 plums
  • 1 pear
  • persimmon apple
  • butter

FOR THE GELATO
Beat egg yolks with sugar. Dilute them with the hot milk, bring the mixture to the heat and cook, stirring until it reaches 84 ° C.
Add the chopped chocolate and let it melt, finally add the cream. Pour into the ice cream maker and start it. Complete as desired with pieces of chocolate biscuits or chopped hazelnuts.

FOR THE PAIN PERDU
Beat eggs with milk, in a large bowl. Dip the slices of bread on both sides and brown them in a pan with a knob of butter for about 1 minute on each side.

TO COMPLETE
Clean and cut the fruit, pass it in a pan with a knob of butter to flavor it and serve it together with the pain perdu and the chocolate ice cream, completing as desired with honey or caramel sauce.

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