Tag: Sesame

Baked steak with shallots, ginger and sesame – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients for 4 people

1) Dissolve the butter in a pan and let them dry shallots peeled and finely chopped with ginger and a pinch of salt. Add a few tablespoons of water if necessary and cook until tender.

2) Take the sauce from the pan and keep it aside; pour in the same pan a couple of tablespoons of oil and sear the steaks 1 minute per side.

3) Transfer the steaks in a pan, add salt and pepper, cover with the sauté and pass them for 8-10 minutes in the oven at 200 °. Meanwhile, toast the Sesame seeds in a non-stick pan, then distribute them on the meat after removing it from the oven.

4) Garnish the steaks with some thyme leaf and, if you like, serve them with a salad.

Black sesame cookies – Sale & Pepe – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients for 8 people

1) Knead the flour with diced cold butter, lo powdered sugar, a pinch of salt and the you working the ingredients quickly until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.

2) Divide it into blocks and form cylinders of 3 cm in diameter. Wrap them with cling film and put them in the freezer for 1 hour.

3) Remove the film and cut the cylinders into slices about 1/2 cm thick. Arrange them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, brush them with the albumen, sprinkle them with black sesame and bake them in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven and serve cold.

Recipe Bread in sesame with instant leavening sesame – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

300 g wholemeal spelled flour
200 g wholemeal semolina
300 g cold kefir water (you can replace it with buttermilk or cold water)
200 g cold Greek yogurt
white sesame seeds
sodium bicarbonate
salt

Duration: 1 h 20 min

Level: Easy

Dose: 1 kg

To prepare the bread in sesame with instant leavening sesame, turn on the oven at 200 ° C.
lined a box or plum cake mold (20 × 10 cm) with a sheet of parchment paper (or grease it with extra virgin olive oil and "flour" the walls with sesame seeds). It is essential to do these two operations before starting to prepare the bread because, when the dough is ready, it will go into the oven as quickly as possible.
Sift flour, semolina and 1 teaspoon of baking soda in a large bowl. Add a couple of tablespoons of sesame seeds and a teaspoon of salt. If you want to enrich the dough with other ingredients (oat flakes, other seeds, bran …), add them at this point.
Jumbled up with a spoon so that the ingredients are well distributed and no lumps remain.
Jumbled up Greek yogurt and kefir water, both very cold.
United the flour liquids in one go and start stirring with a spoon, quickly, from the bottom up. Be quick because when the baking soda comes into contact with the liquids the leavening begins.
Pour the mixture in the mold, level it without compressing it, sprinkle it with a couple of teaspoons of sesame and make an incision along the central line of the bread: do not worry if it is not good, its purpose is to allow moisture to evaporate during the baking making the bread lighter.
bake immediately and cook at 200 ° C for 40-45 minutes. Remove from the oven, turn out and cook again on the grill of the oven (by laying the bread on its side) for another 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and let it cool on a wire rack.
To know: with its typical slightly acidic flavor, it is ideal to eat freshly made, still lukewarm. In a short time it will lose its fragrance; the next day, however, it will be good as a base for bruschetta and canapés.