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Lemon delight, the original Sal de Riso recipe – Italian Cuisine

The most famous desserts of the pastry chef Sal De Riso in their original recipe to make at home. An unmissable ingredient, the Limone D'Amalfi PGI

Lemon delights are Sal De Riso's most famous dessert, but he didn't invent them. They were created for the first time in 1978 by Carmine Marzuillo, a pastry chef on the Amalfi coast, and immediately became one of the best known and most appreciated sweets in Campania. Sal De Riso made them famous, and here is his recipe, which is not easy, but you can try it anyway.

Recipe

Composition
Sponge cake
Lemon cream
Custard
Whipped cream (infused with lemon peel)
"Sal de Riso" Limoncello
Limoncello bath
Fresh milk

For the sponge cake
200 g eggs
20 g yolk
120 g sugar
60 g flour
60 g starch
1 Bourbon Island vanilla bean
1 grated lemon

Beat the eggs with the sugar, grated lemon and vanilla. Combine flour and sifted starch; pour into 8-10 cm diameter silicone molds. Bake in the oven at 160 ° C for 8/10 minutes.

For the lemon cream
70 g yolk
70 g sugar
70 g lemon juice from the Amalfi Coast
70 g butter
1 vanilla bean from the Bourbon Islands

Mix the sugar with the egg yolks. Boil the lemon juice, add to the egg yolks and cook at 80 ° c. Allow to cool and add the creamy butter. Mix.

For the infused cream
Leave to flavor 700 g of liquid cream with the peel of 3 lemons cold for at least 5 hours. Filter and whip when composing the dessert.

For the custard
175 g milk
75 g cream
90 g egg yolks
75 g sugar
18 g maizena starch
1 vanilla bean from the Bourbon Islands
2 g salt
Peel of 3 lemons

Boil the milk and cream with the vanilla bean and the peel of three lemons. Mix the egg yolks with the sugar, starch and salt. Add the milk and boiling cream. Cook the cream and let it cool quickly.

For the amalfi limoncello bath
70 g of water
70 g sugar
140 g limoncello
Thin peel of 1 lemon

Boil the water with the sugar, cool and add the limoncello.

For the filling
430 g Custard
280 g Lemon cream
300 g Whipped cream

For the glaze
Add more whipped and dilute with milk until desired density. Glaze the delights and garnish with a dollop of cream and lemon julienne.

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Everything you should know about Sal De Riso pastry – Italian Cuisine

Salvatore De Riso is actually a cook. He is so by training and because in his pastry shop in Minori you don't only eat lemon delights and babà. Here is what we ate and what he told us. Including the project of the new restaurant and an upcoming opening in Milan!

Born in 1966, only after having studied as a cook and having spent seven years in the kitchens of the best hotels on the Amalfi Coast, De Riso discovered that pastry was his great passion. So he began with his mother's electric whip and Minori's baker's oven, on loan, to follow his path.
Today it has premises in Minori, Rome, Avellino, and then a new one in sight in Minori (e soon one in Milan), sends sweets all over Italy and is called for banquets and weddings around the world. But if you pass by Minori it is there, between the pastry shop and the pastry shop in Tramonti and the selfies with customers.

Sal De Riso is a star, because he has spent decades on television, has won awards on prizes as a pastry chef worldwide and his panettone always ends up among the favorites of the year in blind tastings. But here he is a star because he gives work to entire families, never closes while the Amalfi coast hibernates and has brought Minors in the geographical maps of travelers of taste. People place the children in his hand to take pictures, recall the complete formation of his pastry shop window in the 92/93 season and leave dedications on the napkins, jealously guarded in a display case; all under the satisfied eyes of foreign tourists who have the definitive confirmation of being in the right place.

Profiteroles, not lemon delights

The Sal De Riso Costa d’Amalfi pastry shop in Minori is large, beautiful and sells everything: cakes and single portions, ice cream parlors, cafes, pizzas, bistros and aperitifs. A riot in the window, people at all hours, out of line and a continuous round of tables from early morning to late evening (with a change of placemats and uniforms to mark the time of day). Everyone eats what they like, and so there are those who have breakfast while others enjoy themselves typical dishes of Minori, Great parmigiana of aubergines or an ice cream cone, until there is almost no room left for a Lemon Delight. Indeed, a profiterole: because in reality the king of Delizia started from there, with a little innovation and with the intuition of dressing a classic chocolate with Mediterranean flavors.

Whatever you do with one hand you have to harvest and with the other you have to sow

Since 1988, sweet and savory

Exactly the same thing happened to us, we arrived on pilgrimage from Milan during a visit to the Amalfi Coast. We wanted to have breakfast, say goodbye to Sal and go on and it ended like this: three hours at the table, a friend on vacation who joins us at the table, De Riso who chats for hours, a pizza, a parmigiana, a lemon spritz, a baba and a tasting of sweets. All by looking at the photos of wedding cake for Arab emirs made up of hundreds of delicacies and hearing the stories of the loads of citrus and apricots processed every year in the laboratory a few kilometers away. Between pieces of the interview, interruptions by fans who want to take a picture with the legendary Sal.
«I opened the first laboratory in Minori in 1988 and immediately added a salty part with sandwiches and pieces of rotisserie. It makes the place live all day and allows those who come to discover flavors that would otherwise become impossible to find like the real traditional dishes. Recipes of Minori that nobody knows like Ndunderi, gnocchi with 70% ricotta and basil, rolled by hand one by one on a wooden board. Restaurants no longer make these dishes. And so in fact customers never leave us, lunch and dinner, from those who come for the walks to the customers of the most luxurious hotels in search of traditional flavors . Sal De Riso preserves, hands down and innovates, in fact it was also the first to make the single portions, the individual slices of cake, the glasses and to make the pastry shop a reference place for the local community. They even have a special service for dogs, with a bowl of ready-made water and biscuits made by them with annurka apples, carrots and almonds, without sugar.

The new restaurant and the vegetable garden

"Hospitality is everything. In fact, I'll open a real restaurant next door , he says, pointing to some closed shop windows across the street. "I only slowed down because of Covid, but it will be for next year. I want to prepare grilled meats and fish and stuffed fried pizza, freshly made and fried in front of people. It will be the continuation of Sal De Riso, with an important open cellar with wines from Campania and from all over Italy, craft beers … and then I will take a plot of land to make a vegetable garden. It will cost me more, but the quality of the products will be better . And then he looks at me: "Remember," he tells me, "whatever you do: with one hand you have to reap and with the other you have to sow".
And while people line up waiting for their turn to sit down, to buy a cabaret of pastries and to shake his hand, he takes his leave: «I'm proud of my place, of my people. There are 65 people now up at the Tramonti laboratory, 45 just in production, divided into departments of 6 people who work together as a team to do a job. Candied fruit, icings for desserts, jams, we do everything ourselves . Other than small industry: great craftsmanship!

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Profiteroles with Amalfi lemon: the Sal De Riso recipe – Italian Cuisine

The recipe of the heart of Sal De Riso, the one that consecrated it (well before the legendary Delizia al Limone). Here's how to make it, step by step, including grated lemons

Sal De Riso is one of the most famous pastry chefs in Italy, who in turn has made the pastry of the Amalfi Coast famous for its traditions and flavors. The most famous recipe is the Lemon delight, but the one with which he started was not a great classic, but the profiteroles, but ai Lemons of Amalfi. And here is his recipe for these sumptuous cream puffs filled with lemon custard and covered with a sauce flavored with Amalfi lemon peels and juice. Advice? Add grated lemon zest.

Components

beignet pasta
Lemon cream
lemon scented custard
whipped cream scented with lemon peels
lemon sauce

Ingredients and procedure

For the puff pastry
250 g of water
250 g butter
6 g salt
250 g flour
500 g whole eggs

Boil the water with the butter and salt. Add the sifted flour and cook for a few minutes over low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon. Let the pasta cool in a large container and add all the eggs in one go. Work the dough with an electric whisk until it becomes smooth and homogeneous. Form cream puffs, almost as big as a walnut, on a sheet of baking paper, or directly on the pan, with the help of a pastry bag with a smooth steel tip of about 1 cm. Bake at 220 ° C for about 25 minutes until you see the puffs and golden brown. Let it cool down.

For the lemon cream
100 g yolk
100 g sugar
100 g lemon juice from the Amalfi Coast
100 g butter
1 Bourbon vanilla bean

Mix the sugar with the egg yolks. Boil the lemon juice, add to the egg yolks and cook at 80 ° C. Allow to cool and add the creamy butter. Mix.

For the infused cream
Leave 1 liter of liquid cream to flavor with the peel of 3 lemons cold for at least 5 hours. Filter.

For the custard
350 g milk
150 g cream
180 g egg yolks
150 g sugar
35 g cornstarch
1 Bourboun vanilla bean
2 g salt
peel of 3 lemons

Boil the milk and cream with the vanilla bean and the peel of three lemons. Mix the egg yolks with the sugar, starch and salt. Add the milk and the boiling cream. Cook the cream and let it cool quickly.

For the filling
750 g of lemon scented custard
250 g of lemon cream
500 g of whipped cream

For the glaze
Add half a kilo of whipped cream to the remaining cream and dilute with fresh milk until desired density. Glaze the cream puffs.