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Purple potato muffins: the recipe – Italian Cuisine

Beautiful to look at, very good to taste. Here are our tips for preparing them: whether to make them in a sweet or savory version, you decide!

THE purple potato muffins they are delicious colored sweets that seem to come out of a fairytale book.
They are of this color because they take the color from purple potatoes precisely and they can be stuffed in many ways.
Prepare these muffin it is very simple and can also be made in salted version for a picnic, a snack, an aperitif.

The recipe for purple potato muffins

Ingredients

450 g of purple potatoes
180 ml of milk
150 g of brown sugar
80 g of water
60 g of seed oil
2 tablespoons of maple syrup
375 g of 00 flour
1 sachet of yeast
salt
cinnamon

Method

First boil the whole potatoes with the peel and once soft, mash them and let them cool very well.
As soon as they are cold, mix them with the milk and slowly add the brown sugar, oil, maple syrup and water.
Finally, the powders, then the flour and baking powder well sieved and plenty of cinnamon.
The mixture is now ready and you can pour it into the muffin mold lined with paper cups or oiled and floured.
Bake in a fan oven at 170 ° for about 30 minutes.

A particular consistency

These muffins are more humid classic muffins both because mashed potatoes make any dough softer and because there are no eggs that mounted would give more volume.
If you prefer very leavened muffins we suggest you work the ingredients with a planetary mixer or with whips to mix them perfectly and create air inside.

Chocolate variant

You can add some to the base compound dark chocolate chips and wanting a spoonful of bitter cocoa if you prefer a more delicious version, but you can also fill the inside of these muffins with one hazelnut spread cream.
When you pour the mixture into the mold, put a heart of hazelnut cream, or even almonds, in the center of each muffin and cover with another mixture.

Fruit variant

Potatoes have a very delicate taste that lends itself to many combinations.
That's why you can enrich these muffins too with apples or other fruit.
If you opt for the apples, cut them into thin slices and mix them with the dough or arrange them on the surface by cutting them to make a kind of flower.
They are also very good with blueberries and raspberries as well as beautiful to look at for the color shades that are created.
If you want to sweeten them and soften them a little, you can mix half a crushed banana in the dough and then add a tablespoon of extra flour.

Savory variant

To prepare salted purple potato muffins simply remove the sugars and add aromatic herbs and spices at will.
Then fill them with fresh herbal cheeses and grilled vegetables.
You can also make these muffins with classic or American potatoes, always obtaining different colors.

Find out more tips for making purple potato muffins in the tutorial

Ube Halaya: Filipino dessert made with ube purple potatoes – Italian Cuisine

In the Philippines, ube halaya, or purple potato cream, is a very popular spoon dessert, also used as the base for many other recipes

L'ube or purple yam it is a tuber with a delicately sweet flavor reminiscent of coconut and pistachio and with a pleasantly intense violet color, very common in various Asian countries, not to be confused with similar tubers such as taro and sweet potatoes. Although it is still little known and used by us, but still available in various forms at some stores specializing in ethnic and oriental foods, in the last few years of rediscovery of healthy and colorful foods, the UBE has gained popularity and media visibility, gaining the title of Fpurple trend ood. The Philippines they are the country where this ingredient has always been considered a local culinary excellence and where it is used for the preparation of numerous traditional dishes, both sweet and savory. One of the most popular ube-based recipes is the ube halaya, a sweet cream that deserves to be known and that is the basis of some typical Filipino desserts, including the famous halo halo.

A purple jam beautiful to look at and good to eat

The ube halaya is one cream based on ube with a similar appearance to a very thick jam or a polenta and a sweet and vanilla flavor, which can be eaten alone, for example spread on bread, added to other ingredients or used as a filling for cakes and pies. To prepare this Filipino dessert it is sufficient to boil the ube potatoes, peel them, grate them, mash them and finally let them cool; after melting the butter or margarine in a saucepan, pour the purple puree obtained and are then added, mixing, sweetened and condensed coconut milk and other optional ingredients such as coconut milk, vanilla extract, sugar and evaporated milk. After about 30 minutes, when the mixture is sufficiently dense to adhere to the spoon, the fire can be turned off and, once cooled, it can be poured into a plate, in buttered containers of various shapes or in jars for preserves. The ube halaya generally comes served cold or at room temperature, sometimes garnished with other typical local pastry ingredients, including grated and toasted coconut flakes and the latik, or a caramelized coconut cream.

Uses and variations of the ube halaya in Filipino cuisine

As we have seen, one of the most popular and popular ways to taste this delicious and exotic jam is to add it as a garnish to a mix of crushed ice and condensed milk. What results is thehalo halo, a hugely popular Filipino summer dessert characterized by a riot of sweet condiments including ube jam, various syrups, milk flan (or the Philippine version of the French creme caramel), sweetened red beans (munggo), macapuno (an anomaly of the coconut which consists of a gelatinous pulp), fresh or canned fruit (e.g. saba bananas, lychees and jackfruit).

The ube halaya recipe, one of the many pounded coconut creams called nilupak and typical of the Philippines, can also be prepared with alternative ingredients to Uube including taro puree, sweet potatoes, pumpkin or cassava, giving life to a great variety of different sweets and with different names.

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Purple Risotto Recipe – Italian Cuisine – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

4 pcs purple carrots
200 g Carnaroli rice
1 pcs shallots
fresh cream
Grana Padano Dop grated
butter
dry sparkling wine
salt

Duration: 50 min

Level: Easy

Dose: 6 people

For the purple risotto recipe, chop the shallot and sauté in a saucepan with a knob of butter for 1-2 minutes. Pour in half a glass of sparkling wine and let it evaporate for 3 minutes, then add half a glass of fresh cream and let it reduce again for 3-4 minutes, adjusting with salt. Peel the carrots, cut them into pieces and centrifuge them to get the juice. Toast the rice dry in a saucepan, then cook it for about 15 minutes, wetting it from time to time with a ladle of slightly salted boiling water. Add the carrot juice and cook for a couple of minutes, then stir in 40 g of butter and 30 g of grated parmesan. Distribute the rice in the bowls, seasoned with cream and shallot reduction and complete with flower petals to taste.