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Banana + Toffee = Banoffee! A super sweet dessert – Italian Cuisine

If you love bananas and caramel this is the cake for you. These two ingredients combined in a single dessert and then whipped cream and chocolate flakes. Can you imagine something more greedy?

The banoffee pie is one typically Anglo-Saxon cake of rather recent origins.
It was invented by the pastry chef of a London restaurant in the 70s and has since become famous all over the world.
If you have never tried it, immediately start working because it is an easy dessert to prepare it does not even need to be cooked in the oven. It is perfect in all seasons and will drive big and children crazy.

The base of biscuits

Biscuits and butter, practically the same basis of the classic cheesecake.
Melt 120 g of butter and mix it with 200 g of Digestive biscuits finely chopped.
Use a round hinge mold and press the mixture well on the bottom before storing it in the fridge.

The caramel cream

It is a simple caramel prepared melting in the pan 100 g of butter and 100 g of brown sugar.
Once you have prepared the sugar base, add 400 g of condensed milk and mix again with a hand whisk for 15 minutes.
Let the cream cool down and then make the banoffee pie.

Bananas

There is no variant of the banoffee pie with other fruits, because as we said at the beginning, the name of this cake is banana.
Choose them mature, but not too much. and cut them into thick slices because they have to feel and not become a cream.

How to prepare the banoffee pie

Once the base is ready and cooled, pour the mixture into it caramel leveling it well.
Then add some banana washers and completed with tufts of whipped Cream.
Decorate everything with plenty dark chocolate flakes.
You can also add grain of dried fruit for a crunchy touch.

Brown sugar. It is not brown sugar.

This is an ingredient that you will find very often in the recipes of Anglo-Saxon origin.
It is a white sugar, finely chopped and mixed with molasses.
It can be found in some stores that specialize in sweet products and has the ability to make a dough is softer and more elastic and gives the typical rubbery consistency to cakes, biscuits and creams. He has a very particular right that he knows about caramel.
You can prepare without much difficulty even at home.
Consider that the proportion is 10 parts of white sugar and 1 part of molasses. Mix everything and you will get your brown sugar homemade.

Condensed milk: the basic ingredient

Another little used ingredient in our traditional cuisine, but super popular in American and British dessert recipes.
You find it in a jar or in a tube in all supermarkets and you can use it for the preparation of cakes, pralines and especially for the famous ice cream without ice cream maker.
We advise you to make a good stock and store it in the pantry. It could be useful to you very often!

Are you curious to try the recipe for this amazing cake? Then we give you some more ideas in the gallery.

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the rules for enjoying the typical Christmas dessert at the top – Italian Cuisine

Eye to the form
The panettone's dome must be golden, swollen and round but not too high. In its most classic version, without icing, the surface is characterized by its characteristic cross cut, the "escarpment" that must be clearly visible. The hoof will be compact but not too dark.

Better big
Like all leavened products the panettone gives its best in large formats: in a larger volume it retains more moisture, which favors a good leavening.

Panettone loves the heat
It seems a paradox but the winter dessert par excellence is better if the temperature is high. The experts guarantee that in August it is better than ever. But for us traditionalists, who reserve it for the table of holidays, the advice is to keep it at least one day in one well-heated environment: this will give off its aromas and it will be softer.

You eat first with your eyes
The pleasure of a pleasant tasting of the panettone comes also from the sight and the smell: dedicated attention to the pasta, which must be yellow (a sign that contains many egg yolks) and well honeyed. Then enjoy the scents: first the citrus fruit (which comes from candied fruit) then the vanilla one and finally the buttery component (whose intensity also derives from the type of butter used: the best is the outcropping).

Impeccable service
The suggestion of the experts is to eliminate all the paper cups, to serve the dessert in its original form (the paper container was born for commercial reasons after World War II, with practical and hygienic but not aesthetic functions).

Perfect slices
Panettone should be cut with a slow and deep movement, keeping the knife parallel to the serving plate so that the air bubbles do not crush. The right portion is 80 g.

Pairings doc
Served simply smooth, the panettone goes well with i passito wines but also robust reds like a Barolo Chinato. If instead you want to combine it with one creamIn addition to the classic mascarpone cheese, you can try it with eggnog, pastry, but also a cream of hazelnuts and pistachio or a raspberry coulis, whose acidity perfectly compensates the fat component of the panettone. If you love gourmand experiments, you can serve it with a reduction of aged balsamic vinegar or, toasted, in combination with foie gras. And what's going on? Try it for breakfast, cut into cubes, always toasted or sautéed in a pan with a little butter.

Livia Fagetti
With the advice of Pier Venturi, product manager of IDB Group
November 2018

Pan Roasted Asparagus with Garlic and Parmesan

by Pam on February 19, 2013

This is a recipe I make often because it’s super quick, tasty, and easy to make. I also love that it pairs with so many different main course dishes. I love the garlicky flavor with the salty Parmesasn – it makes the asparagus extra special in my opinion. I served this asparagus with a delicious meatloaf (to post tomorrow) and some Creamy Mashed Potatoes^[1] for a delicious and comforting meal.

Remove the wooden ends of the asparagus spears. Swirl a 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the asparagus spears in a single layer then cover with a lid and cook until the asparagus is bright green and still crisp, about 5 minutes. Uncover and season with sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste. Continue to cook, stirring often until the spears are fork tender yet still a bit crisp, another 1-2 minutes.

Move the spears to one side of the skillet then add the last 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil to the other side of the skillet. Add the minced garlic to the olive oil, and cook for 30 seconds, stirring the garlic constantly. Toss the spears with the garlic and olive oil for 30 seconds then remove from the skillet to a serving plate. Top with shredded Parmesan cheese and serve immediately. Enjoy.

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Pan Roasted Asparagus with Garlic and Parmesan

Yield: 4

Prep Time: 5 min.

Cook Time: 7-10 min.

Total Time: 15-17 min.

Ingredients:

1 tsp olive oil, divided
15-20 spears of asparagus, wooden ends removed
Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste
2 small cloves of garlic, minced
1 tbsp Parmesan cheese, shredded

Directions:

Remove the wooden ends of the asparagus spears. Swirl a 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the asparagus spears in a single layer then cover with a lid and cook until the asparagus is bright green and still crisp, about 5 minutes. Uncover and season with sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste. Continue to cook, stirring often until the spears are fork tender yet still a bit crisp, another 1-2 minutes.

Move the spears to one side of the skillet then add the last 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil to the other side of the skillet. Add the minced garlic to the olive oil, and cook for 30 seconds, stirring the garlic constantly. Toss the spears with the garlic and olive oil for 30 seconds then remove from the skillet to a serving plate. Top with shredded Parmesan cheese and serve immediately. Enjoy.

Recipe and photos by For the Love of Cooking

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