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To all gratini! The most delicious gratinated side dishes for winter dinners – Italian Cuisine

Fennel, broccoli, artichokes: here's how to use the oven to make these vegetables so tasty that they are also served as a dish

In winter period also Side Dishes they become richer, thanks to more elaborate preparations and cooking in the oven. If you want a warmth this evening comfort food, which can also become a simple single dish, you are in the right place. Take a look at the vegetables you have in the fridge and the ingredients in the pantry: between béchamel, butter, Parmesan, breadcrumbs and various aromas you will get a delicious dish. Here are some ideas.

Fennel gratin with ham and cheese

The taste of fennels is delicate and makes them perfect with cheese. Boil them so that they soften and try cooking with a fork: they should not be too soft because they will cook in the oven again. Put them in a pan with cubes of stringy cheese, like gruyere or bitto, if you want a substantial and tasty dish, and strips of cooked ham. Sprinkle with the Parmesan, add a few knobs of butter and put in the oven already hot for about ten minutes at 180 ° C. Run the grill for a crust to scream!

Broccoli in oven with bechamel

Boil the broccoli florets and place them in a pan. Add some bechamel, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs and put the broccoli in the oven at 180 ° C under the grill until they become golden and crisp.

Gratin artichokes with parsley and pecorino cheese

Clean the artichokes eliminating the hardest outer leaves, the beard and the part of the most filamentous stem. Boil them in boiling salted water until they are tender. Drain and cut them in half. Prepare a mix of bread crumbs, grated pecorino cheese, chopped parsley and olive oil in a bowl. Grease the bottom of a pan, then place the artichokes and sprinkle them with the mix of breadcrumbs. Cover them completely. Put in oven at 180 ° C for 20 minutes.

Tomatoes au gratin with garlic

Tomatoes are not winter vegetables, but if you want a lighter side dish, they are good for a gratin. You can choose even the smallest ones. Cut them in half and empty them of the seeds. Prepare the breadcrumbs separately, mixed with Parmesan, parsley, extra virgin olive oil and a minced garlic clove. Place the tomatoes in a greased pan and with a spoon put the mixture of breadcrumbs on each tomato. Bake for half an hour at 180 ° C.

Christmas cake: three delicious recipes – Italian Cuisine

Looking for ideas for an original dessert to be offered instead of the more traditional ones? Here are three easy and fun recipes to involve children too

In each Christmas menu respectful, whether for lunch or dinner, must remain a bit 'of space for the sweet. Panettone, pandoro, themed cookies, the delicious stub: in short, the choice is really wide. And there are not many ideas for a beauty Christmas cake instead of the more traditional desserts. Here then some suggestions to satisfy the tastes of all the friends and relatives.

Christmas cake: with chocolate, you're not mistaken

For a Christmas cake made from chocolate, you need to get 150 grams of chocolate melting and 60 of milk chocolate. It breaks all the chocolate and puts it in a saucepan with 150 grams of butter, leaving on the fire until it melts. In the meantime, they beat four eggs in a bowl with 150 of sugar and incorporate 150 grams of sifted flour with a spoon of vanilla yeast. It joins the melted chocolate, mixes and then arranges the dough in a mold already greased, perhaps shaped Christmas tree or comet star to stay on topic. You leave in the oven at 180 degrees for 30 minutes, it is cooled and, finally, after having mounted 80 dl of cream with sugar, it is decorated at will. This chocolate Christmas cake will please both adults and children and, to make it even more colorful, you can also add a little bit of candied.

All the softness of the sponge cake

The simplest things are very often also the best, like a soft one Christmas cake with a sponge cake base. First of all there are five eggs with 120 grams of sugar, adding 150 grams of flour. When the consistency of the mixture becomes homogeneous, a little bit of it is added grated peel of medium lemon. The dough is placed in a cake tin properly greased and lightly floured – again in this case, ample space for fantasy regarding the form – and leave it in the oven at 160 degrees for at least 45 minutes. Halfway through cooking, with one toothpick you can check that everything goes well. After baking the Christmas cake with sponge cake you just have to decorate it with a little ' whipped cream or cream. To make it more fragrant, in addition, you can also add a small glass of wine during the preparation liquor. Cointreau is Grand Marnier they are the most suitable.

When the cake has the face of Santa Claus

THE children they will go crazy. To prepare a very nice Christmas cake with Santa's face we start by joining in a four bowl eggs and four yolks together with 150 grams of sugar. Heat everything in a bain-marie for a few minutes and then add the mixture. 150 grams of flour, 50 grams of butter melted and a handful of grated orange peel. After mixing, arrange the dough in a buttered and floured round mold and leave in the oven at 180 degrees for 30 minutes. When the cake has cooled, i draw moustache and above all the beard of Santa Claus with 200 grams of cream, mounted with 70 grams of dark chocolate. For the hat he eyeson the other hand, it is very good colored almond paste. Preparing a Christmas cake has never been so fun.

Christmas pancakes: delicious and … beautiful! – Italian Cuisine

The party breakfast is slow, relaxed, special and fun. You allow yourself that time – and those calories! – that during the rest of the year you never have, taken between the commitments of the whole family. What to prepare therefore in the morning of Christmas or in the following days? Pancakes! Naturally themed. Kids will go crazy, are you ready?

The recipe for pancakes

Ingredients

20 grams of butter
120 flour 00
12 grams of sugar
2 eggs
180 grams of milk
5 grams baking powder

Method

Put the butter in a saucepan and let it melt. Separate the white and red of the egg, transfer the yolks in a bowl and help with a whisk beat them. Then add the chilled butter and milk. Continue to mix the mixture. Add then sifted yeast and flour. Separately beat the egg whites with sugar and then incorporate them into the rest, being careful not to take them apart. Heat a plate, grease it with a little butter and then pour a ladle of the pancake mixture. Cook on one side and then turn the pancake and continue on the other side.

How to decorate Christmas pancakes

Santa is always the favorite character of children and playing it using pancakes is very easy. An advice? Prepare the ingredients and let the little ones turn simple pancakes into Santa Claus, but also in the Rudolph reindeer, in snowman or little angels. You will need them fresh fruit cut, as slices of strawberry to do the Santa Claus hat, or banana and blueberries to make Rudolph's eyes, but also whipped Cream and, if you like to prepare a savory version of pancakes, bacon and tomatoes.

Browse the gallery to get inspiration and decorate your own Christmas pancakes!

And if the children have fun, why not prepare with them also gods Christmas cookies?