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Recipe Pasta and chicory with milk cream – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

400 g milk
350 g short pasta of your choice
200 g clean chicory
50 g butter
lemon
garlic
chili pepper
shelled pistachios
extra virgin olive oil
salt
pepper

Duration: 30 min

Level: Easy

Dose: 4 people

For the recipe of pasta and chicory with milk cream, blanch the chicory in boiling salted water and cool it in cold water; drain it, squeeze it and chop it. Sauté in a pan with a drizzle of oil, 1 clove of garlic and 1 red pepper for a couple of minutes. Keep it warm. Boil the pasta in boiling salted water. Meanwhile heat the milk in a saucepan with a pinch of pepper. Drain the pasta al dente (70% cooked) and pour into the milk. Finish cooking until the milk has dried. Cream it with butter and 1 tablespoon of cooking water. Serve with chicory, complete with grated lemon rind and some chopped pistachios.

Milk flakes … not just for the diet! – Italian Cuisine

They are called in English cottage cheese and are the milk flakes, a very creamy fresh cheese made up of many white balls mixed with whey or cream.

Why are cottage cheese perfect for the diet?

Typically, cottage cheese is considered a source of protein, has few calories and is therefore ideal for those on a low calorie diet. Be careful, however, to choose the product without cream.
Very often, in fact, the packaged milk flakes are enriched with the cream thus becoming more creamy and tasty, but also very fat and caloric.
A 100 g portion of cottage cheese with only whey accompanied with seasonal vegetables is a great idea for a quick light lunch break.

How to make cottage cheese at home

Only three ingredients: skim milk, white vinegar and salt.
To prepare the cottage cheese you have to pour a liter of milk in a saucepan, add a pinch of salt and cook over medium heat stirring constantly.
When the milk boils turn off the heat and add 15 grams of white wine vinegar, stir and let it all rest with a lid for 30 minutes.
After this time, cook everything again for 10 minutes and then let it rest for another 30 minutes.
With a sieve, collect the flakes and place them in a small container lined with sterile gauze. Allow excess liquid to drain and consume immediately.
You can enrich the cottage cheese with aromatic herbs and even with a spoon of cream if you want to make them more tasty.
They are kept in the refrigerator for three days at the most, always covered with plastic wrap.

Ideas with cottage cheese

Generally they are eaten naturally, but do you know that cottage cheese is the secret ingredient of many perfect recipes for the whole family?
Here are some of our quick and easy proposals.

Quick croutons

Aperitif with friends? Instead of the usual bruschetta with tomato and mozzarella, prepare whole-wheat croutons with cottage cheese. You can then add sliced or grilled vegetables and, why not, even fruit. In this season we recommend black figs.

Zucchini sushi

Many times we have proposed this recipe because it is easy and quick to prepare. You simply need to cut the courgettes with a mandolin lengthwise and then roll them up after stuffing them with spreadable cheese. We advise you to try them with cottage cheese. Read the article Zucchini: 5 recipes without cooking if you want to know more.

Creamy pasta

A secret to making the pasta creamy and enveloping is to add a tablespoon of fresh spreadable cheese, especially when it is a vegetable-based first course. Try for example to enrich your simple tomato sauce with a spoonful of cottage cheese. You will get a tasty pasta that will appeal to children too.

Lasagna with cottage cheese

Do you want to prepare a tasty and tasty first course, but not too caloric? With lasagna you always make everyone happy, but try using flakes of milk instead of bechamel. They are very good with a vegetable-based dressing, flavored with a little pesto.

Potato salad

Usually it is prepared with boiled potatoes and mayonnaise, but we suggest this lighter version with cottage cheese. To mix everything well dilute the flakes with a little skimmed milk. Enriched with chives or dill and smoked salmon.

Sweet cups

Do you know that cottage cheese can also be consumed at breakfast instead of yogurt and milk? Just add a little honey or sugar to sweeten it and then flavor it with cocoa or cinnamon and enrich it with fresh or dried fruit.

Grilled pineapple

When you feel like a light, easy and quick to prepare dessert, cut a ripe pineapple into slices and cook it on a very hot plate. Then serve with honey, cinnamon and a spoonful of cottage cheese.

Almond milk – Salt & Pepper – Italian Cuisine

It has been for centuries theelixir balsamic and the refreshing drink par excellence of ours south. Obtained from a widespread and available raw material: le almonds. Today it is already ready in all supermarkets in Italy. A "Announcements" who conquered the Italian: not only have sales increased significantly almond milk but it is also found more and more often used as "noble" ingredient of many industrial products, such as sweet snacks and ice creams. But why do you like it so much?

A true "Latin lover"
To understand the current almond milk boom, one must take a step back and focus on oily fruit from which it is obtained. It is the almond, in all its forms, to be on the crest of the wave like never before: according to the Osservatorio Immagino Nielsen GS1, in super and hypermarkets there are over 900 products that contain it. A number, until a few years ago, unthinkable. Almonds like them because they are good and they do well. And their milk is a tasty and fast way to consume in every moment of the day. Not only: it is also an ingredient smart for many drinks (like smoothies and smoothies) and for many dessert recipes, too unsweetened. And for many it also represents avegetable alternative with cow's milk. Let's deepen these aspects.

A good drink (even in the kitchen)
With his taste delicately sweet, almond milk makes many recipes for cakes, plum cakes, and donuts special puddings. And it is essential to prepare sorbets, granita and that delicious confectionery specialty that is the "biancomangiare". It also lends itself very well to the preparation of thirst quenching drinks and toning, like the smoothie made with 50 g of beet, a carrot, a green apple, a banana, two tablespoons of raspberries and 50 g of ginger. Also try pairing with a superfood like spirulina. That's enough whisk 230 ml of almond milk with 2 grams of spirulina dried, 11 ml of elderflower syrup and 5 ml of juice carrot, and then filter, to get a super drink, perfect after the activity sporty and to cope with the fatigue caused by hot. Besides finding it ready-made, almond milk is easy even from prepare at home using theextractor. 100 g of almonds are left in soaking in 50 cl of water for one night and, the next morning, water is replaced. Then place the almonds in the extractor gradually adding 40 ml of water and a second passage is made in the extractor, adding another water if necessary. The almond milk thus obtained should be consumed within two days.

A beneficial food?
"Drink" the almonds brings the same benefits healthier than eating them? Unfortunately not. In almond milk the amount of this fruit a shell it is very low (around 2%). Most of the product sold at the super is made up of water, from additives (such as stabilizers and emulsifiers) and from sugars added (just check it by reading the list of ingredients). And this explains why the milk of almond is not a light drink: a glass 200 ml is worth about 50kcalorie, made mostly from sugars and fats. Most of his people though fat they are "good" (like oleic and linoleic acid) because they keep the system healthy circulatory. And then in almond milk there is also a good amount of antioxidants, like vitamin E. The mix of minerals, trace elements and vitamins (often added, as specified on the packaging) makes it a good one supplement natural for those who follow a diet Vegetarian or wants to give up, at least for a while, to animal proteins and lactose, which it lacks. However, almond milk is not a real alternative to that of cow, because it is too low in protein (less than 1%), too full of sugar and is naturally deficient in some important micronutrients, such as football, vitamin D and la vitamin B12. Furthermore, according to the WHO, replacing cow's milk with almond milk leads to iodine deficiency, increasing the risk of damage brain.

Manuela Soressi
July 2019

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