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Savory mortadella and pistachio plum cake recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

The Savory mortadella and pistachio plum cake it is a truly original preparation to serve as soft appetizerbut also to put in the picnic basket for a country snack on the grass.

«Mum always worked a lot and cooking was her escape. She liked to experiment with the recipes that she found in her grandmother’s notebooks. Like this one, which comes from a family friend tells our Valentina Vercelli, who gave us this simple recipe to prepare.

With the ingredients – diced mortadella, grated Emmentaler, flour, milk, oil, unshaded pistachios, yeast, eggs, salt – you create a single mixture which is poured into a plum cake mold and baked at 180° for about 45 minutes .

Also discover these recipes: Savory plum cake with peas, pecorino and ham, Savory plum cake with olives and tomatoes, Vegetable plum cake, Greek plum cake with feta and olives, Savory plum cake with broad beans, salami and pecorino.

Plum cake: 15 recipes for a soft breakfast or snack – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

From breakfast to snack, the plum cake conquers adults and children alike. Its name means “plum cake”: in England it is prepared, in fact, with these fruits, but the classic plum cake recipe it also involves the use of candied fruit and raisins instead of plums.

The dough is soft: at the base of flour, eggs, sugar, butter you can add other flavors and ingredients to taste, such as lemon for example, to make the plum cake different every time. The characteristic shape of this dessert is that of a parallelepiped, to be obtained with a box mould. The plum cake is easy to prepare: just mix the ingredients, pour the mixture into the mold and bake.

Plum cake, recipes for the cold season

In autumn and winter the plum cake can be enriched with seasonal fruit like apples and pears, with dried fruit like walnuts and hazelnuts or, again, with carrots, pumpkin and chocolate. By dividing the dough in two and coloring one of the parts with cocoa, plum cakes can be obtained two-tone or marbled. Here are some ideas: Plum cake with pears, Plum cake with carrots, apples and coconut, Plum cake with pears and amaretti biscuits with crumble, Plum cake with carrots, Plum cake with walnuts, Hazelnut and carrot plum cake with lemon cream, marbled plum cake with pumpkin and chocolate, Oil and cocoa plum cake, two-tone plum cake, Marbré plum cake with Matcha tea.

Plum cake, recipes for the summer

When it’s hot we can play with all the colorful fruit of the summer, as well as herbs. Among the ideas that you can draw inspiration from are these: Plum cake with figs, Strawberry grape plum cake, Plum cake with lemon and berries, Plum cake with rosemary and blueberries.

Our plum cakes to prepare without hesitation

Salted plum cake with peas recipe – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

600 pea pods
200 g 00 flour
100 g milk
120 g semi-seasoned pecorino
100 g raw ham
80 g mild extra virgin olive oil
4 eggs
30 g grated Parmesan
10 whole basil leaves
salt
pepper
1 packet of yeast for savory pies

Duration: 2 h

Level: Middle

Dose: 6-8 people

To prepare the salted plum cake with peas, start by shelling 600 g of pods: do not throw away the pods and once emptied remove the stalks, wash them well and cut them into pieces; boil them in boiling salted water for 5-6 minutes, drain and dip them in cold water. Then drain them, blend them and pass them through a sieve to eliminate the fibers: use only a part of this mashed pods (with the rest you can prepare a soup).
Blanch 150 g of peas shelled for 1-2 minutes in salted boiling water, drain and dip them in cold water.
beat with a fork 4 eggs with 80 g of mild extra virgin olive oil (otherwise it is better to mix 50 g of olive oil with 30 g of seed oil); add 120 g of mashed pods to the eggs, 100 g of milk, salt and pepper.
In another bowl mix 200 g of 00 flour and 1 sachet of yeast for savory pies, pour the egg mixture, begin to mix, then add 120 g of grated half-seasoned pecorino cheese, 30 g of grated Parmesan cheese, 100 g of strips of ham and 10 leaves whole basil, salt and pepper.
Pour in a well-buttered and floured 1-liter cake mold, and bake at 180 ° C for 50-60 minutes (if it is too colored, it can be covered with aluminum foil).
Remove from the oven and after 5-8 minutes remove it from the mold and let it cool on a wire rack.
serve just warm with raw ham or culatello and stracchino: delicious!