Tag: Green

Recipe Tropical cake with green tea – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

650 g chestnut cream
a mango
140 g sugar
120 g fresh cream
120 g kumquat
100 g butter
60 g flour 00
50 g orange honey
40 g almond flour
5 g pectin for jams
6 fruits of passion
2 eggs
matcha powder tea
salt

Duration: 1 h 45 min

Level: For experts

Dose: 8 people

For the recipe for tropical green tea cake, whisk the butter with 80 g of sugar and a pinch of salt for 5-6 minutes, then incorporate one egg at a time, continuing to mix with the whisk for another 5 minutes, until you get
a well-blended compound. Add a teaspoon of matcha tea
and mix again; united, finally,
the 00 flour and the almond flour, stirring briefly.
Coat the bottom of a mold
hinged (diameter 20-22 cm) with paper
from oven, butter it and flour it; fill with the mixture and bake
at 160 ° C for 25-30 minutes. Let it cool.
For chestnut mousse: whip the cream and mix it with chestnut cream; Transfer to a pastry bag and allow to cool in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
For the tropical compote: Pass the pulp of passion fruit into a strainer: you will need to get about 80 g of juice. Peel the mango and cut it into slices; keep 2-3 aside and cut the other pieces into small pieces. Wash the kumquats and cut them into slices; keep some slices aside.
Add the others to the passion fruit juice and the pieces of mango and cook everything in a saucepan over low heat for 25 minutes with orange honey, pectin and 60 g of sugar, then let cool and blend to obtain a compote.
Spread two thirds of fruit compote on the cake and cover with small tufts of chestnut foam; complete with the slices of fruit kept aside and tufts of compote. Decorate as desired with whipped cream, mint leaves, almond slivers and chopped marron glacé.

Leeks: trouble throwing away the green – Italian Cuisine

Do you always use white bulbs and throw away the green part considering it a space? Absolutely wrong. Here are some recipes to use it to the fullest

Discover that some leeks, in the kitchen, do not throw away (almost) anything it's really amazing. Let's see how to use them green leaves for yours recipes.

That undervalued green

With leeks the general tendency is to use white and throw away the green part. This instead contains a lot of vitamin C and can be used in many recipes. just remove from the leaves only i a few centimeters of the usually woody upper part. The boiled leaves they can be used for sauces, soups or flans. Or simply season with oil and spices for one side dish. The taste is decided but the many fibers present are an excellent remedy to facilitate intestinal transit. Among the greedy possibilities is to make strips with leek leaves and fry them in boiling oil, you will get some fried matches crunchy and tasty.

Recipes with leek green: rolls or omelette?

You have seen in photos or from a friend of the bundles tied with leek leaves? Yes, really beautiful and making them is a breeze. You have to steam the leaves leaving them quite long and once cooked you can use them as real threads to bind your bundles. The green of the leeks can also be used to make some rolls. Wrap for each leaf a whole slice of speck. Then prepare a batter with flour, salt and sparkling water, dip each roll and fry in boiling oil. The rolls with the green of leeks they can also be cooked in the oven, stuffed with a mixture of boiled mashed potatoes and pink pepper. In this case you have to blanch the leaves, prepare a filling with the boiled potato, a cheese you love e pink pepper. Place the filling on one side of the leaf and roll, closing the rolls with a toothpick. Bake in the oven some minutes at 220 ° C. If you want an omelette, you can do that too! Blanch the green part then proceed as you would for any one omelette. If you like you can add to eggs some parmesan, some spice, or matches of speck. The result will make you regret all the leek leaves thrown in the past!

Fried green tomatoes: the story of an Oscar dish – Italian Cuisine

Journey to discover one of the most famous dishes in the history of cinema, protagonist of a great film nominated for two Academy Awards in 199. And the recipe!

Tasty, golden, irresistible. Are the Fried Green Tomatoes, that recipe protagonist before the book Fried green tomatoes at Whistle Stop coffee and then of the 1991 film Fried green tomatoes at the train stop, a cult of the history of cinema, with those berries covered with bread that seemed to tie forever Idgie and Ruth, two women who were never afraid to fight against a world of rules that seemed to oppress them, bring them down to earth.

Recipe

The recipe, typical of the tradition of the southern United States, becomes incredibly popular, thanks to a certain ease in preparation and a unique flavor, which goes well with the milk sauce. Unlike the red ones, the green tomatoes are very firm and almost completely seedless, not to be confused with the green unripe tomatoes. It is a dish that makes the kitchen more appetizing, not only for its luxuriant color, but also for a new crunchiness, to be proposed as an appetizer or as a side dish. Once washed and cut into slices, the difficult will be to make the batter. After sieving 80 grams of cornmeal and another 80 grams of 00 flour, mixing them with 10 grams of sugar, prepare separately two eggs beaten together with salt and pepper. At this point you will only have to pass the slices of tomato first in the eggs and then in the mix of two flours twice: only after having cooked them in boiling oil and having pulled them out at the right time, beautiful golden, will be ready to taste and to be served hot, with particular attention not to overlap them once laid on the tray covered with plenty of absorbent paper.

The aromas of the South, the colors and the breading, will awaken those pristine landscapes of America of the Thirties. In particular, bringing us back to Whistle Stop, the town where the railway locomotives darted like lightning bolts and where Idgie and Ruth find shelter from the dangers of the world, when they lovingly run a coffee in the city center fighting against the prejudice of the old men of the country. Those who did not tolerate the self-sufficiency of two young people, but also the friendship they had with black men, men who were only good slaves for obedience. And who knows what to bite a fried green tomato can not suggest a distant echo and that film lovers will recognize immediately. An echo called "Towanda".