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Recipe Soft mango cake with Greek yogurt – Italian Cuisine

We didn't turn on the oven for this cake. Using the pressure cooker with the valve raised and adding a small dose of baking soda to the dough, you can prepare very soft cakes, bread and pizzas: the effect obtained is that of a steam oven

Ingredients

200 g 00 flour
200 g Greek yogurt
150 g mango pulp
100 g moscobado sugar
20 g icing sugar
3 eggs
organic lime
bicarbonate
corn seed oil

Duration: 45 min

Level: Easy

Dose: 6 people

Cut the cubed mango pulp and sprinkle with 1/2 lime juice, of which you will have grated the zest.
Whip the eggs with the sugar moscobado in a frothy mixture.
Stir, little by little, the sifted flour and 1 level teaspoon of baking soda; keep on whipping the mixture for 3-4 minutes, to make it incorporate air. Then add 70 g of oil, half of the mango pulp and half of the grated lime zest.
lined a cake tin (ø 18 cm) of metal or silicone baking paper and pour the mixture into it.
Pour in the pressure cooker a finger of water, introduce a steaming basket and place the cake pan on top. Close the pan keeping the valve raised. Bake for 30 minutes, then place the cake to cool on a wire rack, sprinkling it with the remaining lime juice.
mix Greek yogurt with icing sugar, spread it on the cake and complete with the rest of the mango and lime zest.

Carrot cake with Greek yogurt topping – Italian Cuisine

How to prepare a delicious carrot cake and cover it with a creamy Greek yogurt topping

One of the things we like best about Carrots pie is that it is one of the best ways to eat carrots. Yes, one of the freshest and sweetest vegetables of spring, capable of transforming each dessert into a triumph of crunchiness and taste. Our stylist Beatrice Prada he pureed the new carrots in the mixer, transforming them into an unmissable cake.
Here is his recipe, photographed by Giandomenico Frassi.

Carrot cake: the recipe

Ingredients for the cake

400 g clean new carrots

150 g brown sugar

125 g 00 flour

100 g almond flour

1 teaspoon of yeast

1 teaspoon of baking soda

125 ml sunflower oil

70 g yogurt

2 eggs

Ingredients for the topping

250 g Greek yogurt

50 g cream

50 g icing sugar

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and line a 22 cm diameter baking tray with parchment paper. Finely blend the carrots in the mixer, pour them into a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, oil, sugar, eggs, yogurt and mix very well, until the mixture is creamy and homogeneous.

Pour the mixture into the pan and cook for about 45/50 minutes, then leave to cool. To prepare the cream, whip the cream with the sugar and gently add the yogurt.

When the cake has cooled, cover it with cream.

Orange cake with Greek yogurt – Italian Cuisine

Without butter, but with excellent yogurt, juice and orange zest. Very fragrant and soft: here is the recipe of the Greek restaurant. Vasiliki Kouzina from Milan

There portokalopita, orange cake, is a traditional dessert from the Peloponnese, in Greece, usually prepared for weddings. Simple to make, it has no butter, but Greek oil and yogurt, which gives it a soft consistency. "I always remember the phrase that my mom said:" You have to let it melt in your mouth "," recalls Vasiliki, owner of the Greek restaurant Vasiliki Kouzina in Milan. The orange pie of his childhood was traditionally prepared with dried phyllo dough, blended in the mixer and made into a flour. But it can be replaced with semolina flour.

Recipe

Ingredients for 4 people

250 g Greek yogurt
250 g caster sugar
225 g sunflower oil
230 g fresh orange juice orange zest
4 eggs
500 g re-milled semolina
30 g baking powder for powdered sugar
mint leaves

Method

First, combine all the liquid ingredients in a large bowl: Greek yogurt, sunflower oil, eggs, fresh orange juice and grate the zest of two oranges then with a whisk mix the mixture well.

At this point add the powders: sugar, semolina and baking powder. With a whisk, beat the mixture to make it smooth and homogeneous, free of lumps. Butter a 24-26 cm diameter cake tin and bake the cake at 165 degrees for 20 minutes.

Before enjoying it, sprinkle with icing sugar and garnish with a few mint leaves.

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