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Cilento, free coffee for those who clean the beach – Italian Cuisine

In establishments that use Cilento coffee, just go to the bar with a bag of garbage collected on the beach to receive a glass of coffee in exchange

A "prize" for those who contribute to keeping the beach clean: those who collect waste left on the coast are entitled to a free glass of coffee. It is the initiative, launched for the second consecutive year, by the Coffee Roasting Cilento, active for years in Laurito, in the province of Salerno: the "Clean Cilento" project it was created to sensitize bathers to take care of the beach.

On the other hand, according to the investigation Beachlitter by Legambiente, on every meter of sand of the 93 beaches examined are located almost 10 waste, and plastic alone accounts for 81%. But what is visible to our eyes on the beach is only 15% of the waste entering the marine ecosystem: the remaining 15% float on the surface of the sea and 70% remain suspended in the water column or sink. Among the 10 most found wastes there are pieces of plastic and polystyrene (and it is worrying because they are the "precursors" of microplastics, irreversible and incalculable pollution), the caps and lids of drinks – one for each meter of beach is found -, cigarette butts (the equivalent of 359 packets has been found of cigarettes in just 9 kilometers), cotton swabs (7.4% of all waste monitored) and construction material (with over 4,000 wastes linked to illegal spills on the beach). There are also 45 plastic bottles every 100 meters and 34 plastic dishes such as plates, glasses, cutlery and straws, every 100 meters.

To sensitize all swimmers, Caffè Cilento will distribute i leaflets which indicate how long it takes for the various materials to decompose. In the bathing establishments that use the Caffè Cilento brand, just go at the bar with a garbage bag collected on the beach to receive a glass of coffee in exchange. Which, of course, won't be plastic.

Gluten Free Lasagna Recipe – Italian Cuisine – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients FOR PASTA

450 g buckwheat flour
50 g corn starch
4 yolks
3 eggs
salt

Ingredients FOR THE DRESSING

1 Kg ragù (prepared as for classic lasagna)
butter
Parmigiano Reggiano Dop

Ingredients FOR THE BESCIAMELLA

1 L milk
40 g corn starch
nutmeg
salt

Duration:

Level: Middle

Dose:

FOR PASTA
Knead flour and starch with yolks, eggs, 100 g of water and a pinch of salt. Collect the ball dough and let it rest covered for 1 hour.
Roll out the dough with a rolling pin, obtaining a 2 mm thick sheet; cut it into rectangles (25 × 10 cm), cook them in boiling salted water for 1 minute, then dip them in cold water and pat them on kitchen paper.

FOR THE BESCIAMELLA
dissolve corn starch in 200 g of milk. Bring the remaining milk to a boil; add the diluted starch and bring to the boil, then flavor with salt and nutmeg.
compose lasagna and cook it as in the classic version.

How to make a sugar free apple pie: the recipe – Italian Cuisine

The secret is to prepare it without sugar. Not without taste, only without sugar! A perfect recipe for quarantine, in which you always want something sweet but you have to deal with the balance

The attention not to accumulate too many kilos in this period of quarantine it is very high and for this reason we offer you a recipe that will save yours desire for sweet and the need to do not get fat. How, will you ask? Simply by preparing one apple pie without sugar, perfect for the desire for sweetness (omnipresent) and for making peace with guilt.

How to replace sugar in a cake

There are many ways to sweeten a cake without resorting to sugar: among the most used products there is the honey, which has different aromas depending on the origin of the essences used by bees to produce it. For 100 g of sugar consider 80 g of honey. Another substitute is the malt, which is obtained from the fermentation of cereals and is perfect for leavened desserts or creams. For 100 g of sugar use 130 g of malt. Another option is the molasses, made from beetroot or brown sugar. You can use it for prepare cookies or bread, 80 g instead of 100 sugar. The rice syrup, which is obtained from rice itself, can substitute sugar in doses of 130 per 100 g. Even it apple or grape syrup it can be used instead of sugar, taking into account that it is sweeter: in this case, for 100 g of sugar use 70 of syrup.

The apple pulp, perfect not only for this cake

Another option to do without sugar is to reduce the apple pulp in a puree, which you will mix together with the other ingredients to sweeten your dessert. This way you will only have natural fruit sugars which will delicately sweeten yours Apple pie. As a quantity, calculate the puree from two large apples for 250-300 g of flour. And if you want to enhance the sweetness even more, you can add sultanas soaked in the dough.

The recipe for sugar-free apple pie

Ingredients

300 g flour, 175 g butter, 1 egg, 1/2 sachet baking powder, grated zest of one lemon, 4 large apples, 100 g chopped hazelnuts.

Method

First prepare the apple puree. Peel two, coring them and cut them into chunks. Put them in a pan and cook them with a drop of water until they flake completely. Put them in the mixer and then keep 200 g aside. Melt the butter in a bain-marie and then add it in a bowl with the apple puree, lemon zest, egg and mix well. Add the sifted flour with the yeast, 50 g of chopped hazelnuts and continue mixing. Butter a 24 cm diameter hinged mold, flour it and pour the mixture into it. Peel the remaining apples, cut them into thin slices which you will place on the surface of the cake. Finish with the chopped hazelnuts and bake at 180 degrees in a static oven for 45 minutes.

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