Tag: regional dishes

Sacripantina cake recipe from Liguria – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

There Sacripantine cake it is a traditional dessert Ligurian. It usually consists of three states of sponge cake soaked in Marsala and rum, interspersed with white butter cream and cocoahas a typical dome shape and hides a canestrello biscuit inside.

The invention of this dessert dates back to 1851 and Giovanni Pretipastry chef Genoawhich was inspired by the name of the cake Sacripantethe hero of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso.

The recipe we present here is contained in the chef’s book Carlo Cracco “Some people like Cracco. Regional cuisine the way I like it” and is revisited with two layers of maraschino sponge cake, custard and apricot jam.

Pinsa Roman recipe with chicory, the recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

There Roman pinsa it is a pizza characterized by an oval shape, crispy edges and soft, but not too thick, dough. He has one recent history: it was invented by Corrado Di Marco, an entrepreneur in the world of flours and pizza technician, who called it that from the Latin pinsere, or “to press”, “to crush”.

The secret to getting a good result is to work the pinsa dough with the fingertips, opening and closing it, with movements from the outside towards the inside, several times, between one leavening and another. Only at the last minute, before putting it in the oven, does she lie down and give him one oval shape. Then spread your fingers and begin to sink them into the dough, creating even dimples that will promote impeccable cooking.

Pinsa can be seasoned with many ingredients, in this recipe we have chosen them punterellecharacteristic vegetables of Lazio cuisine, seasoned with anchovies. Also discover: Pinsa with ‘nduja, stracciatella and pineapple, Pinsa, pumpkin cream and Catalonia.

Umbrian cheese pizza recipe, the traditional Easter recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Is called “cheese pizza”but this typical recipe from Umbrian tradition it is, instead, a sort of savoury cakehigh and soft, or rather, a seasoned bread. It is a preparation that recalls some others widespread in the regions of Central Italy and typical of Easter holidaysas the casatiello and the tortano Campania and the Easter grows Marche.

Umbrian cheese pizza is a festive bread, prepared like the others Easter bread to celebrate the rebirth and the return of spring. The “pagan” tradition then merged with that religiousand the spring celebrations overlapped with those for the resurrection of Christ.

Also called Easter cake, it goes well with cured meats, especially almonds capocollo, a typical sausage obtained from the meat obtained from the upper part of the pig’s neck. Cheese pizza with capocollo is part of the traditional Easter breakfastconsumed after “the bells are melted”, together with the coratella and the omelette.