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Recipe Salad with chicken, crispy bacon and basil cream – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

1 pc sectioned chicken (2 half breasts and 2 thighs with overweight)
500 g iceberg salads and lettuce
500 g salted vegetable broth
100 g coconut milk
40 g Grana Padano Dop
8 pcs slices of smoked bacon
3 pcs files
2 pcs "baby" carrots
1 pc green pepper
1 pc avocado
tarragon
basil
cornstarch
salt
extra virgin olive oil

Duration: 2 h

Level: Easy

Dose: 4 people

For the salad recipe with chicken, crispy bacon and basil cream, place the chicken parts in a baking dish with the skin facing upwards, spread over a dozen sprigs of tarragon, 1⁄2 chopped chillies, the squeezed juice of 2 limes and coconut milk; Marinate in the fridge for about 1 hour. Transfer the chicken with its marinade and the vegetable stock into a large saucepan, cook over low heat for about 15 minutes from the boil, then remove the breasts, which will already be cooked, and continue cooking the legs for another 10 minutes. Keep the meat aside, strain the cooking juices and let it reduce to medium heat for about ten minutes, dissolving 2 teaspoons of cornstarch to make it thicker. From the head of lettuce and the iceberg 8-12 external leaves, larger, to be used as a base, are recovered and the rest cut into small pieces. Slice the carrots finely. Spread the bacon slices on a plate and cook them in the microwave, at maximum power, for 1 minute, until they are crispy. Alternatively brown them in the pan for 3-4 minutes. Clean the avocado and whisk it with the juice of 1 lime, a dozen basil leaves, a pinch of salt and 3-4 tablespoons of oil, until you get a cream. Sprinkle the chicken pieces, cut the pulp into pieces and season with the hot cooking sauce. Arrange 2-3 iceberg or whole lettuce leaves in each dish, spread the chopped salads inside, chunks of warm chicken, flakes, 5-6 basil leaves, carrot slices, crispy pancetta broken and some chilli peppers. Season with a little oil, a pinch of salt and pepper and complete with the basil cream.

Risotto with rennet apples, crispy pancetta and rosemary – Italian Cuisine

The usual risotto? No thanks! With a bit of imagination we can find new and tasty combinations. Like the apple and the pancetta, an unusual and very tasty couple.

The broth slowly simmering, the grains of rice sizzling in the pot. Of course, for the risotto it takes patience, it is a dish that you start to enjoy just listening to the sounds of cooking and the scents that slowly spread in the kitchen.

And the beauty is that every seasoning is the right one, from vegetables to cheese, from meat to fruit! Passwords: fantasy and experimentation. And here is the perfect pair of apples and bacon in risotto. She, the rennet apple Melinda, is the sweet and soft part, with that consistency that blends perfectly with the soft waves of risotto. And with that bit of acidity that takes pancetta, crunchy and very tasty, by the hand.

Not forgetting that the Melinda rennet apple is a real superfood: rich in polyphenols, while we taste it in risotto, in a salad or in a cake, it helps us fight against cell aging.

How to prepare risotto with rennet apples, crispy pancetta and rosemary

Ingredients

300 g of carnaroli rice

2 small Melinda apples or 1 large Melinda apple

100 g of sweet pancetta

half a glass of white wine

a shallot

40 g of butter

some rosemary needle

vegetable broth q.b.

Salt and Pepper To Taste.

Method

Put half of the butter in a risotto dish, let it melt gently and sauté the finely chopped shallot.

Wash a rennet apple Melinda, peel it, deprive it of the core and cut it into cubes.

Once the shallot is wilted, pour the diced apple together with half of the diced bacon and a few needles of rosemary in the risotto dish: let it flavor until the pancetta becomes crispy.

Put half of the cooked apples and pancetta aside and pour the rice into the risotto dish: let it cook for a few minutes and add the white wine.

Let it evaporate and start adding the vegetable stock.

Continue cooking, stirring and gradually adding the broth.

Meanwhile cook the remaining bacon in the microwave to make it crunchy for a couple of minutes, turning it every 30 seconds (alternatively, cook it in a non-stick pan with no added fat).

Cut the second Melinda rennet apple into slices after washing it thoroughly and removing the core.

Cook the slices in the pan with the remaining butter, a few needles of rosemary, salt and pepper for a couple of minutes per side.

Once the rice is cooked, add the apples and pancetta, kept aside at the beginning of cooking, and serve with the apple slices alternating with the crispy bacon.

Perfume with fresh ground pepper and serve immediately.

Recipe Donut of peas, crispy wafer and robiola cream – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

750 g peas
700 g potatoes
150 g robiola
100 g fresh cream
3 egg whites
Parmigiano Reggiano Dop
flour 00
butter
flax seed
salt

Duration: 1 h 40 min

Level: Middle

Dose: 12 people

For the recipe of the pea donut, crispy wafer and robiola cream, boil the potatoes with the peel until they become tender. Cook the peas in plenty of boiling water: for 3 minutes from boiling, the fresh ones, for 7-8 minutes, the frozen ones.
Drain and whisk immediately, still hot, obtaining a velvety. Mash the potatoes, still hot and without the skin, with a potato masher. Lightly whisk 2 egg whites. Mix the pea soup with the potatoes, then add 5 g of grated Parmesan, 45 g of flour and 7 g of salt. Finally add the whipped egg whites and mix the mixture
gently from bottom to top.
Brush a donut-shaped mold (diameter 19 cm) with melted butter and fill it with the mixture. Bake at 180 ° C for about 30 minutes. Prepare the waffles: mix 50 g of soft butter with 30 g of flour, 30 g of grated Parmesan and the remaining egg white. Line a baking sheet of baking paper and lay down, with the help of a kitchen brush, strips of mixture; sprinkle them evenly with a handful of flax seeds. Bake at 180 ° C for 7-8 minutes.
Take them out of the oven and let them cool. Bring the cream to the boil and, off the heat, add the robiola. Serve the warm donut with the wafers and the robiola cream, which is also warm.