All recipes written by Gordon Ramsay
Did you know that to prepare a state-of-the-art hot chocolate, the secret is to use a large amount of excellent chocolate simply dissolved in a little hot milk?
But we want to offer you an equally delicious, but much lighter alternative based on cocoa, also suitable as vegan recipe.
200 g of oat milk or other vegetable milk
8 g of unsweetened cocoa
10 g of potato starch
Mix the milk with the well sieved cocoa and then add the starch, obviously sifted.
No sugar and no sweeteners because the Avena's milk it is naturally sweet. Otherwise, use a sweetened almond milk, or a teaspoon of erythritol (natural sugar without calories).
Put everything on low heat and, stirring slowly and continuously with a wooden spoon, wait for the drink to take on consistency.
In about two minutes the hot chocolate will be ready, thick and creamy like the one made with chocolate.
You can replace the starch with cornstarch and you will get the same result.
We do not recommend flour instead because both the taste and the texture would be affected.
For a light hot chocolate we suggest you not to use sugar, also because, as we said, the vegetable milk it is already very often sweetened.
If you want to add aroma and taste, use spices, like a stick of cinnamon to mix everything as if it were a teaspoon, or a few drops of vanilla, or some berries of cardamom if you like the aroma of this spice.
If you really can't help but enrich your hot chocolate with whipped cream, try this alternative.
Leave for one night can of coconut milk in the refrigerator.
The following day, take the part that has solidified and whisk it as if to make whipped cream.
You will get a soft cloud of coconut, which will not be light because it is still rich in vegetable fats, but it will be lactose-free and a delicious vegan recipe!
Coconut and cocoa then go very well together so you absolutely have to taste this variant because you will fall in love with it.
You can garnish it with coconut flakes or with a sprinkling of cinnamon or bitter cocoa.
TO Christmas we must pamper all the guests of our table, especially those with intolerances. Instead of thinking of a "separate menu", propose dishes that are suitable for everyone. In this way you will save time and money and you will not make anyone feel in trouble.
Let's start with the appetizers and also a little from the setting of the table since the bread wreath we want to offer you is a wonderful decoration and all to eat.
It is made without lactose because it is prepared with pizza dough and can be stuffed in many ways: grilled vegetables, cold cuts and possibly lactose-free cheeses.
You can also prepare single-portion omelettes, such as muffins, simply by beating the eggs with sautéed vegetables or sautéed mushrooms.
Finally, serve croutons with a pickle blended with tuna or spread with chickpea humus or guacamole.
For the first courses you will not find great difficulties: you can choose any type of dry pasta and also gnocchi, trofie tagliatelle, lasagna and cannelloni.
Prepare a classic meat sauce that everyone always likes, in a white version perhaps with the addition of mushrooms and pumpkin or with tomato sauce.
If you want to prepare stuffed pasta obviously don't use cheese, but simply mince ham, mortadella and minced veal, mix with an egg and season this stuffing with salt and pepper.
In central Italy at Christmas a mixture of fried foods is prepared with breaded lamb chops and battered vegetables. A second course that does not include lactose and that everyone likes. Think about it!
The only difficulty is that you cannot prepare it in advance because the frying must be done on the spot, so if you don't want to spend time in the kitchen while everyone else is at the table waiting for the second, opt for a vitello tonnato, always super. current and never predictable.
A roast with baked potatoes is a timeless classic as well as roast beef and all these proposals do not contain lactose.
If there are lactose intolerant guests at the table, perhaps you should avoid pandoro and panettone, unless you get a suitable variant.
However, you can prepare a Christmas tart, obviously with oil shortcrust pastry.
Stuff it with the apples cooked in a pan with brown sugar and raisins and add walnuts, cinnamon and pine nuts. You can also make it covered, almost like a strudel.
Or prepare homemade nougat with melted chocolate and dried fruit. Put the mixture in plumcake or muffin molds and you will get really super greedy blocks of chocolate, also beautiful to give to guests.
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