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Tacos: let's do them at home! – The Italian kitchen – Italian Cuisine


The tutorial to prepare delicious tacos at home in a few steps, starting from corn flour, water, oil and salt

Do you want tacos? No problem!
During this quarantine period, we have given up on many of our favorite foods that we used to eat outside the home. Or we learned to do it. In order not to miss anything, but also for learn new techniques and feel proud of our results in the kitchen. If you haven't tried Mexican recipes yet, this is the right time to do it!
Our stylist Beatrice Prada in fact, he cooked some delicious tacos showing us all the single passages with the photos of Giandomenico Frassi. Follow the tutorial below and you won't go wrong!

How to make tacos

100 g white corn flour (masa harina)
150 g water
1 teaspoon of oil
a pinch of salt

Method:

Prepare the flour in a large bowl, heat the water without bringing it to the boil and salt it. Then pour it on the flour, add the oil and mix with a spoon or spatula until the mixture is plastic and the water will be completely absorbed. Leave to stand covered for 15/20 minutes.

Cut two baking paper disks of the same diameter as the tortilla press (about 13 cm), divide the dough into six balls and with the aid of the tool or a rolling pin, crush one ball at a time between the two sheets of paper, until they are reduced to the thickness of two three millimeters.


Cook on a very hot plate two minutes per side and, once cooked, fill to taste.

Beatrice's tacos are stuffed with salad, tomatoes, pulled pork, spring onion, curry mayonnaise, paprika yoghurt sauce and coriander.

Égalité's recipe (and how to order at home) – Italian Cuisine


"Égalité chez toi" is the new home delivery service to receive bread, cakes and other specialties from the Porta Venezia boulangerie in Milan at home. This is how the delivery service works and in addition a special treat: the recipe for the pain au chocolat by Égalité!

egalite and the boulangerie of via Melzo 22 a Milan, born in 2018 from the desire to bring a high quality French bakery model to the city. Today Égalité expands its services with “ISgalitécheztoi”, Home delivery to receive at home, in total safety, some of its most loved products, such as Croissant is Pain Au Chocolat.

It starts with bread, available in 6 types and in 5 types of baguette, Toviennoisery, With croissants, pain au chocolate, Madeleine And much more. There is no shortage of savory specialties, such asquicheIn three variants: the classic Lorraine (with bacon), Poireaux (with leeks) and Chèvre tomates (with goat cheese and tomatoes). For more information on home delivery, visit the official website.

If instead you want to try your hand at preparing French desserts, try the recipe of Égalité to churn out Pain Au Chocolat made in a workmanlike manner.

Égalité's pain au chocolat recipe

Ingredients (for 16 pain au chocolat)

500 g of 00 flour
25 g of fresh yeast
10 g of salt
50 g of sugar
125 ml of milk
125 ml of water
300 g of butter
1 yolk (to be brushed for browning)
32 chocolate sticks

Method

Combine type 00 flour, yeast, sugar, milk, salt and water in a large bowl. Knead the dough until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. Once finished, leave to rest in a pan, wrapped in a nylon sheet for about 12-18 hours.

The next day, divide the dough into a series of loaves and proceed with the spreading, encasing the butter inside (this should be about 30% of the weight of the portion of the dough you are working on).

When closing, be careful not to overlap the two ends of the dough and to press the surface of the dough to seal the butter well inside.

Gently roll out the dough (so as not to break it and not let the butter come out) up to a thickness of about 5 mm and make a 4 fold. Resume the dough, roll it out to obtain a thickness of 5 mm again and make a further fold to 3. Put in the fridge for 30 minutes.

At this point you can roll out the dough again to obtain the pain au chocalat. Cut some rectangles of dough, inside which you will place 2 chocolate sticks. Roll them up and leave to rise for 2 hours.

Finally, gently brush the surface with an egg yolk and bake at 170 ° for about 17 minutes.

How to make puffed rice at home – Italian Cuisine

How to make puffed rice at home


Excellent for breakfast, it is also perfect for breading meat and fish: it is puffed rice that, with some time available, we can try to make at home. that's how

There are those who consume it a Breakfast, in milk or with yogurt; who in the form of biscuit instead of bread for lunch; who as an ingredient for breading. We are talking about the puffed rice that we used to buy in the supermarket. IS if we did it at home instead? The principle is that of popcorn: just like these are 'burst' corn kernels due to the effect of heat, puffed rice is 'blown' rice grains, then dilated hot.

Here all the steps to prepare it and many recipes in which to use it.

Puffed rice: properties and nutritional values

From a nutritional point of view, it isn't nothing but rice. In terms of calories, without exaggerating the addition of salt or sugar, they are approx 400 kcal per 100 grams: the quantities consumed in the morning for breakfast (about 2 soup spoons) bring to our body about 150 kcal, the energy requirement necessary to resist hunger attacks until the mid-morning break.

How to prepare puffed rice

To swell with heat, rice grains must absorb the right degree of humidity. To prepare puffed rice, first, soak the rice and then rinse, repeating the operation until the water becomes clear, a sign that the rice is well washed.

So take a pot and fill it with water. When this reaches a boil, pour in the rice grains, add on low heat and cook for about 30 minutes. The rice must be well cooked and absorbed the water. During cooking, according to your tastes and needs, you can add a handful of salt or sugar.

After cooking, lay the beans on a sheet of parchment paper, to let them dry slowly for a whole day. Don't you have time to wait? Put them in the oven at 50 ° C for about 5 hours.

Once they have dried well, place them in a scattered but uniform way over the dripping pan (the metal plate of the oven), greased with a little oil or butter. Preheat the oven to 135 ° C and then cook them for about 2 hours. At the end of cooking, let them cool. And here's your puffed rice.

Ideas for alternative recipes with puffed rice

Puffed rice is not only great for breakfast, along with milk, but it is a versatile ingredient that can add crunchiness to your recipes. Some idea? If you want to stay on the sweet, why not create gods cookies? These are based on a mixture of eggs and flour, to which puffed rice has been added. Or try it this cake, crisp and soft together. Always remaining on the desserts, there is the classic crispy puffed rice and chocolate or this Crisp garnished with port-flavored zabaglione and apricots: an elegant and effective end of the meal. Another idea? This caramelized apple with puffed rice. But puffed rice is also excellent for breading meat or fish: like these sea ​​bass fillets or these slices of veal, which become crunchy, thanks to a batter made with puffed rice and cornflakes. And how about some puffed rice chips for an aperitif?

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