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Pumpkin Chutney: Recipe – The School of Italian Cuisine – Italian Cuisine

A sauce with an original flavor to celebrate autumn: here is the recipe for pumpkin chutney

The chutney it's a sweet and sour sauce and spicy of Indian origin, also used extensively in English cuisine, to accompany meat, vegetables and rice, but also to spread on slices of bread or to accompany cheeses. The chutney can be eaten immediately and can be kept in the fridge for a week, or it can also be prepared as a preserve, sterilizing the glass jars.

The chutney can be prepared with many ingredients, but it is not recommended to try green vegetables, as the vinegar would ruin the color. So go ahead a beets, carrots or tomatoes, but also to the fruit, like apples or mango, especially taking into account the seasonal ingredients. Make way for creativity even with the spices: cloves, coriander, cinnamon, but also mustard and ginger.

There pumpkin it is one of the most suitable ingredients to prepare chutney thanks to its sweetness, which is divinely combined with spices and spicy taste.

The recipe for pumpkin chutney

Try the recipe of Davide Negri, chef and lecturer at La Scuola of La Cucina Italiana: this pumpkin chutney will make you fall in love and accompany you throughout the autumn and winter. Ideal to be paired with foie gras, game and cheese.

To cook this recipe are essential instruments: you will need one sieve rather large, with not too narrow meshes (if they were too narrow, it would be very tiring to reduce the pumpkin in compote). In this way, it will be easy to obtain a very fine and homogeneous chutney. Alternatively, you can use a masher to get a coarser result, but you will have to be careful to eliminate residues, such as lemon peel.

Ingredients

400 g Pumpkin
1 Shallot
1 Chili pepper
1 cinnamon stick
Lemon
Cardamom
sugar
White vinegar
Extra virgin olive oil

Method

Chop the shallot and brown it with a little oil, add the pumpkin, cleaned and cut into small pieces, and add a glass of vinegar, two tablespoons of sugar, the red pepper, cinnamon, a bit of cardamom and the lemon rind. Cover and cook until the pumpkin is completely dissolved.

Sieve the pumpkin pieces through a sieve with the help of a scraper, a spatula or a saucepan: you can work the pumpkin by pressing it on the sieve directly on the work surface, over a bit of baking paper, until you get all the compost. Serve!

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Back to school: the brownie cake – Italian Cuisine

The perfect snack to celebrate the beginning of the school (and not only)! Here is our recipe that young and old will like

If you don't know the brownie you really don't know what you missed until now.
These are buttery American sweets chocolate squares which have such a soft consistency to melt in the mouth.
They can be enriched with walnuts, with spreadable cheese or even with raspberries and they are really very greedy, especially for lovers of dark chocolate.
A snack is eaten with your hands (as long as you lick your fingers!); for an after-dinner instead serve with fork and semi-whipped cream.

The "blonde" version

Brownies can also be prepared with the White chocolate and in this case they are called Blondies.
They are very sweet and could be cloying, so we suggest, if you want to prepare them, to soften the sweetness a little with the addition of pecans in the dough and in the decoration.
For a good result use a high quality white chocolate.

The brownie cake

After all this premise the time has come to unveil the brownies recipe that this time we propose as one cake. This dessert can be an idea for one birthday party, but also for one snack that you celebrate the beginning of school since we are here now.

INGREDIENTS

225 g of dark chocolate
225 g of butter
150 g of 00 flour
15 g of bitter cocoa
225 g of sugar
4 eggs
1 basket of raspberries
mint
½ teaspoon of yeast
whipped Cream

PREPARATION

Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie with the butter.
Beat the eggs and sugar with an electric mixer.
Mix flour, baking powder and cocoa.
Mix the three compounds: eggs, chocolate and butter and flour.
Pour into a rectangular mold and bake at 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
Let the brownies cool and decorate with raspberries and mint and then with icing sugar.
Serve in square or rectangular slices with a spoonful of whipped or semi-whipped cream.

The council in pù

Such a simple cake requires two fundamental things: first choice ingredients and a beautiful presentation.
So for the expense, rely on Iper La grande I which is synonymous with quality and reliability and choose colorful and original accessories like those from Cà per Iper.

Cooking School: energizing foods, five tips – Italian Cuisine

Are you looking for energy after returning from summer vacation? Here are five energizing foods, according to the chefs of La Scuola de La Cucina Italiana.

Feeling tired after returning from vacation is normal. The choice of some foods can help to regain vigor and energy. These food natural, against fatigue, are called energizers. Here are five tips from the chefs de The School of Italian Cuisine!

One. Grapes

Grapes are a very energizing fruit. In fact, it is rich in sugars easily assimilable, which can be immediately converted into energy. Once upon a time, the grapes were taken care of, keeping a bunch of grapes on the table to eat during the day.

Two. Chocolate

The chocolate, rigorously dark, can be a tasty source of energy, to face the return from the holidays and the end of the summer. In fact, chocolate favors the production of serotonin, an excitatory neurotransmitter, mood enhancer.

Three. Ginger

Ginger is known as energizing food for excellence. A decoction of ginger in the evening, before going to sleep, improves blood circulation and fights daily fatigue. This root is rich in antioxidants and can also be used in sauces or pureed along with fresh fruit and yogurt.

Four. Coffee

A coffee, just wake up, gives the right charge, especially if you have to face a long day at work. There caffeine contained in a cup of coffee is, in fact, a stimulating substance: it increases energy, accelerates the metabolism and improves mental concentration in the short term. It is however recommended to avoid excessive consumption.

Five. spinach

Green leafy vegetables, like spinach, are rich in folic acid, a nutrient that improves mood and lowers depression. Furthermore, spinach is an excellent source of iron is mineral salts.

If you want to learn more about food and cooking techniques, consult the La Scuola de La Cucina Italiana course calendar here!

Texts by Giulia Ubaldi