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Lots of ideas for seasoning vegetables in the summer – Italian Cuisine

When oil and salt no longer satisfy you, try seasoning salads and vegetables with the dressing. Here are the best ones for the summer

This is the season of salads and huge ones portions of steamed vegetables, partly because you have less appetite, partly because you want to eat only healthy and light foods.
At least on condiments we can indulge ourselves a little, though, so if you want to add a touch of taste to your vegetables, prepare some fresh and fragrant dressing.
Here are some ideas for you.

Season with the vinaigrette

Not really a sauce, but rather an emulsion that does not replace the classic seasoning with oil, salt and vinegar, but turns it into one.
To prepare the vinaigrette, it is enough to quickly mix all the ingredients of the classic seasoning to create a fairly uniform emulsion. You can replace wine vinegar with apple vinegar or even with lemon juice or other citrus fruits.

Yogurt Dressing

Fresh and with a slightly acidulous taste, especially on steamed vegetables. It is prepared simply by mixing it low-fat yogurt with oil, salt and lemon juice. You can then enrich it with herbs like mint, parsley, basil or fennel or even with a clove of garlic and grated cucumbers to turn it into Greek tzatziki.

Bulgarian sauce

A less light variant of yogurt sauce is the Bulgarian sauce which includes the addition of chopped mint with a knife, a clove of crushed garlic and walnut kernels. Very tasty, not too light, perfect on cooked vegetables.

Vegan mayonnaise

An excellent alternative to the classic egg and oil based sauce that is very good with vegetables, especially if battered and fried. It is prepared by blending with an immersion blender the soy vegetable milk (100 ml) with dellseed oil poured flush (about 130 ml). In order to enrich it with taste and color, eventually they are added a tablespoon of mustard and lemon juice.

tapenade

A very tasty sauce made from black olives. Prepare it by blending the olives with delloregano, wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. Excellent on vegetables, but also on croutons.

Honey sauce

If you like that slightly bittersweet touch on vegetables, try this dressing based on balsamic vinegar and honey. The proportion is a part of honey for three of balsamic vinegar. Then adjust with salt and pepper.

Soy sauce

A condiment similar to the previous one that will appeal to lovers of ethnic flavors is the one based on soy sauce. Enrich it with a teaspoon of honey and a bit of sesame oil and use this sauce to dress a salad with fresh sprouts.

Special green sauce

The classic recipe of green sauce includes parsley, but we offer it with a mix of aromatic herbs to make it even more fragrant. Use of sesame seed oil for an even more aromatic aftertaste.

Chicken salad: lots of ideas for a lunch break when it's hot – Italian Cuisine

For a healthy and light lunch break, a chicken salad is what it takes when summer comes. Here are some ideas to prepare it

There White meat it's good, doctors and nutritionists say it too.
Make protein and many other nutrients without weighing it down and fatigue the digestion and is therefore one energy source ideal during the summer season when you have less appetite and the temperatures reach very high peaks. Two, three servings of white meat a week are the ideal within a balanced diet.

The light and complete chicken salad

A'mixed vegetable salad with the addition of chicken it is the ideal choice for a lunch break. You can prepare the meat the night before and then assemble all the ingredients in the morning. It would be preferable to add the seasoning only at meal time, but if you do not have the opportunity to bring it from home and do not find it at work, then immediately add salt and oil and keep your meal cool.

Chicken salad in a jar

Speaking of seasoning, we give you a very useful idea to bring the seasoning with you without taking up too much space and above all without risking dirtying anything. Just compose the salad inside a large glass jar depositing the sauce on the bottom of the jar.
It will suffice then only shake the jar a little to mix the contents together with the seasoning and you're done.

How to cook chicken

If the chicken breast looks like a sad dish, add it in strips inside a mixed salad and will become a cheerful, fresh and colorful mouth watering dish.
Cook the chicken as you like. We suggest the simplest method with the grill or non-stick pan.
Marinate it before cooking with a little lemon and aromatic herbs, or with some spices like paprika and chilli, in this way it will be more tasty.
Then use one very hot plate to make it crunchy on the outside and soft on the heart. Add salt only at the end of cooking with coarse salt.
Then cut it into strips and when cold add it to the salad.

Dare with pairings

The chicken looks good with everything, so why not try combining it with many types of vegetables and even fruit?
Unleash your imagination and choose the seasonal vegetables that you like best to turn a classic salad into something extraordinary.

In the gallery some ideas for a good chicken salad

how to prepare it at home and lots of ideas for tasty variations – Italian Cuisine

From the traditional recipe to the most extravagant ones: the advice for the most famous homemade sausage sandwich in the world

You are lovers of street food? Can't resist the taste of street food typically made in the USA? If you've ever been to the United States you have certainly noticed that in addition to the notorious Hamburger Americans go completely mad for another thing? What is it? Of course hot dogs!

Their origin dates back to the beginning of the last century, when a seller of sausages American chose the long sandwiches instead of the classic rounds to serve its customers a more comfortable meal. A few years later a cartoonist drew inside the sandwich a dachshund instead of sausage, making fun of the fact that they looked a lot like each other, and called it hot dog. From there the name remained and the taste was perfected, with i würstel who took the place of sausage.

In America (and now also in Europe) you can find canopies at every street corner and thematic rooms that prepare them in real time in many variations. Hard not to let yourself be conquered. The good thing is that there is no need to leave the country to eat a good hot dog, with some makeup and with the right ingredients you can prepare them at home in a simple and fast way.

Bread for hot dogs

We begin to understand what kind of bread It is ideal for preparing hot dogs at home. The typical one, now sold in almost all supermarkets, is soft and slightly sweet, ideal to accommodate the frankfurter, the sauces and the other ingredients. If you want to do it at home, here's the recipe. For 8 sandwiches.

Ingredients

450 g of type O flour
2 tablespoons of sugar
40 g of butter
15 cl of milk
3 egg yolks
yeast for instant bread
water and salt

Method

Start by heating the butter with a little water in a small saucepan and add the milk, stirring well. In a bowl put the flour with the sugar, a pinch of salt and the egg yolks and work the dough with your hands until you get a homogeneous mixture. At this point add the butter and milk that you had already prepared and work the pasta again. Add the instant yeast and let the mixture rest in a bowl for at least an hour.

Once it has risen, divide the dough into 8 balls and knead it to obtain a cylindrical shape with a diameter of about 4 cm. Then put the sandwiches on a baking sheet with parchment paper and sprinkle them with flour before putting them in the oven. If you want even softer bread you can brush it with milk before cooking it. Put them in the oven for about 20 minutes at a temperature of 200 °: they will be ready when the surface is golden brown.

Hot dogs for sausages

Once you've chosen the bread, it's time to think about the main ingredient of the sandwich: the würstel. Typical ones for hot dogs are pork, spicy and not very spicy. They are boiled for about six minutes (less if only one is prepared) in unsalted water and drained well before being placed in the sandwich.

The tastiest variants for hot dogs

The classic one, the most sold in the carts of the roads of the States, it is usually seasoned with ingredients such as braised butter, onions steamed or boiled, pancetta, gherkins, cheddar cheese, sauerkraut, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers. As sauces can be used delicate mustard and ketchup.

If you want to try original variations, prepare a hot dog of fish with caramelized onions or a Mexican version with the chili sauce (very spicy for those who love the genre), or, if you want to stay lighter, the one with turkey and vegetables.