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Non-alcoholic cocktail recipe Mandarin, pear, truffle: the recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

If you are looking for a non-alcoholic drink but with character, discover the recipe Cocktail Mandarin, pear, truffle. When tasted it reveals itself to be fragrant and decisive, brings with it a good dose of vitamin joy and goes well with red meats, game or a selection of blue cheeses.

The cocktail is a creation of Elton Zequiraj, bartender who was born in Albania and moved to Sicily at a very young age to finally settle in Turin. After a long experience in the world of hospitality as a bar manager and maître, in 2020 he launched LeGar Unplugged Mixology. The idea? Enhance the qualities of the ingredients in drinks without too much processing or extra additions and above all by eliminating refined sugars.

Also discover these recipes: Santiago sour, Cocktail Romeo, Whisky, pear and beetroot

Cool and non-alcoholic drinks to cool off the summer – Italian Cuisine

From flavored water to smoothies, summer drinks are colorful and beautiful to serve, ready in a minute, sipping all day

When it is hot you have to keep your body light and hydrated. The rule is: drink a lot.
In the desert the Bedouins drink hot drinks to fight the heat, but let's be serious, who wants to drink hot tea in the summer?
So here are our proposals for soft non-alcoholic drinks to sip at any time of the day and to take with you in a thermos.

Flavored water

L'flavored water is a summer classic. Very easy to prepare and delicious to sip.
You can decide how to compose it, with fruit and aromatic herbs you prefer.
You can immerse directly in the water pieces of fruit and sprigs of herbs, obviously after having washed everything with extreme care, or you can prepare some ice cubes with fruit and herbs inside to always keep the water fresh.
The sugar not needed!
Here are the combinations that we recommend:
– cucumbers, lime and mint
– blueberries, peaches and rosemary
– oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit
– raspberries, basil and lemon.

Cold coffee

If the amount of coffee daily equals three cups, pour the three cups in a thermos with ice and sip them for the hours to come a bit like Americans do.
You will certainly have plenty of energy throughout the day, as well as being super hydrated.
Don't sweeten the coffee, at least flavor it with cinnamon and if you want to stain it, prepare some cubes of frozen milk. That of almonds it is excellent and naturally sweet too.
If you just can't help but add sugar, go for it a spoonful of maple syrup and no more for the whole drink.

Iced tea

Why don't you prepare the homemade iced tea instead of buying it packaged?
It can be prepared in a few minutes and can be flavored in many ways.
First of all you can mix different qualities of tea that you like, like a vanilla tea with an orange tea and a cinnamon tea, or a lemon tea with a black tea, for example.
Then you can flavor it like water with fruit and aromatic herbs as well as adding lots of ice.
There is no need to sweeten if you add aromas, also because sugary drinks do not help fight the heat, on the contrary they make the situation worse and strain the intestine.
Savor the taste of natural iced tea and slowly, like sugar-free coffee, you will get used to it and never go back.

Smoothie

They are gods pureed frozen fruit mix similar to slushes and super refreshing, but unfortunately they are to be consumed immediately because they then lose consistency and become simple fruit juices.
To prepare the smoothie you have to start from a frozen fruit base so we suggest you always keep strawberries, berries, sliced bananas, a chopped avocado, mango pulp or other fruits with a soft consistency in the freezer that can be blended for become a kind of ice cream.
In addition to these iced ingredients you will need a part of milk, better if vegetable and a tablespoon of coconut butter or peanuts to give softness to the smoothie.
Celebrities love smoothies made only of green ingredients such as spinach, kale, cucumber, lettuce and avocado and they always add a portion of protein powder and algae, also in powder.
These green smoothies they seem to be super energetic and very hydrating. A must try!

Non-alcoholic beer, more and more trendy – Italian Cuisine

It is undoubtedly one of the food trend of 2019, thanks to a growing offer and a parallel increase in consumption and appraisers. Let's talk about the non alcoholic beer, a drink that made a lot of talk about itself in the summer but whose consumption, thanks to its taste and its peculiar characteristics, is destined to extend to the other seasons of the year.

Totally alcohol free or a low alcohol content, which in Italy cannot exceed1.2%, non-alcoholic beer has found wide acceptance even among the celebrities Italian and international who, despite not giving up convivial moments and the pleasure of a beer in company, have publicly declared their choices alcohol free.
In fact, more and more often, the choices consumers make at the table are dictated by general attention to them Welfare.
So watch out for foods that end up on the plate, with an organic market growth and proposals like pokes and power bowls that intercept this "good all round" food request, but also drinks. Non-alcoholic beer seems to respond to this growing attention to well-being and the need for lightness, thanks to theabsence of alcohol and to thelower caloric intake of the classic blondes, and so the market for non-alcoholic beers has expanded in terms of supply but also of sales, in Italy and abroad.
To convince, of non-alcoholic beer, I am also aroma is taste that thanks to the research that the producers have conducted in recent years, they are increasingly similar to those of the much appreciated Lager and Pils.

Non-alcoholic beer: when to choose it
The process of production of non-alcoholic beer, through alcohol subtraction techniques at the end of the process or dilution techniques that control its development, allows to have a beer that is particularly suitable for those who cannot take alcohol – like women in pregnancy, who has to get to the guide or has health-related limitations – or those who generally prefer to reduce alcoholic beverages in their diet, without depriving themselves of the pleasure of convivial moments.

As we said, the offer of non-alcoholic beers combining the need for moderation and taste has greatly expanded in recent years to meet the needs of new consumers and, even on supermarket shelves, new labels have appeared to choose from.
Among these, one of the most recent is the Heineken® 0.0, a beer with zero alcohol content that contains 21 calories per 100ml, then 69 calories for each 33cl bottle, and is distinguished by its fruity notes and soft and malty body, obtained through a patented alcohol removal process which is evaporated gently without stressing the product, within a double processing cycle.

Editorial board
September 2019

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