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We make pear juice for the children's snack at home! – Italian Cuisine

One of the favorite drinks of the little ones can also be prepared at home, thus eliminating preservatives and obtaining a healthier pear juice

Completely natural, without the addition of preservatives or additives: you would also dream of a pear fruit juice so for yours children? No problem, that's enough prepare it at home. Not many ingredients are needed and the result is that of a denser and more consistent drink, yes sweet but equally healthy, perfect for a snack with family or schoolmates. You can then replicate the same recipe with other fruit loved by your children. Let's find out together how to prepare pear juice at home.

The pear juice recipe

Ingredients

To prepare the pear juice you will need: 1 kg of pears (whole fruit), 1 l of water, 80 g of sugar, juice of 1 lemon.

Method

Clean the pears: wash them well under running water, peel them, remove the core. Cut them into cubes and keep them in lemon juice so that they do not darken while waiting to be cooked.

Boil the water with the sugar. Once the boil is reached, remove the pan from the heat and add the pears.

Wait a few minutes then blend with an immersion blender (be careful not to burn yourself). Pour the juice into a glass bottle and serve it cold. You can keep it for a few days in the refrigerator.

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the sweet "smart" for the snack together – Italian Cuisine

An easy cake to prepare and that will conquer young and old. Why is it called so? Find out together with the recipe!

Now that the Christmas holidays and the coldest days of winter are approaching, you can take advantage of it to keep the kids busy, cooking delicious cakes for the snack for the Breakfast in family. An advice? There cake poured: quick and easy to prepare, with its soft consistency and its greedy filling, it is a genuine dessert, which usually knows how to conquer young and old.

Below, we report ingredients is method to make it at home, while in our gallery, you will find many practical advice to make it even more delicious.

How to make the spilled cake: the recipe

Ingredients

To prepare the poured cake, you need: 200 g of 00 flour, 4 eggs, 190 g of caster sugar, 100 ml of warm water, 90 ml of seed oil, 16 g of baking powder, 250 g of jam of strawberries (or any other taste) and the grated zest of 1 untreated lemon.

Method

With an electric mixer, begin to beat the eggs with sugar. When the mixture is well blended, add the lemon zest and water, then the oil flush, finally sifted flour and yeast, all while continuing to whip with the electric whisk. Preheat the oven 180 °, get a hinged cake pan lined with parchment paper, in which to transfer half of the mixture. Bake for 20 minutes. Now, spread the jam, leaving 1 cm from the edge, then cover with the remaining dough. Complete cooking for another 30 minutes. Check with a toothpick if the cake is cooked. Remove from the oven, let cool and serve, sprinkled with icing sugar.

Pie poured with ricotta and chocolate chips

The procedure for the dough is the basic one. While the first part of the dough is cooking in the oven, to stuff with ricotta and chocolate, proceed as follows: get 200 g of dry cow's milk ricotta, put it in a bowl and mix it with 50 g of sugar and 1 egg yolk. Get a homogeneous mixture, to which add 30 gr of dark chocolate drops. Now your filling is ready to fill the cake and complete the cooking.

Poured ricotta and pear cake

The combination of ricotta and pears is always an excellent idea. The procedure for obtaining the filling is the same as in the previous paragraph, except that in addition to the chocolate drops, 1 pear cut into very small chunks must also be added during the mixing phase.

Cake poured with cocoa and cream

The procedure is always the same, only that before placing it in the cake pan, you must add 2 tablespoons of bitter cocoa powder, in order to make it dark. For the cream, instead open a vanilla bean and remove the seeds. Then put 500 ml of whole milk on the fire, with the addition of the berry and the vanilla seeds. Do not boil it, filter it. Meanwhile, mix 100 grams of sugar with 50 grams of potato starch, adding the cooled milk slowly. Once all the milk has been added, pour the mixture into a saucepan and over low heat, let it thicken, to obtain a thick mixture, to be used as a filling for the poured cake.

The snack Manifesto: 8 rules for a perfect snack – Italian Cuisine

If you too are parents who have always wondered what the perfect snack for your children is, then you can get a good bit of inspiration from The Manifesto of the Snack, developed by Unione Italiana Food and Istituto Bambino Gesù for the health of children and adolescents. A guide to immediately learn the correct eating habits and discover the pleasures of food.

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The Infant Jesus Institute for the Health of the Child and the adolescent point of reference in Italy for issues concerning nutrition education for the youngest, he pointed out eight good practices to keep in mind together with an unpublished article weekly planning of 56 snacks, divided for four age groups (4-6 years, 7-11 years, 12-14 years, 15-17 years) with the aim of providing parents with ideas to better organize it. "The basis of a correct diet in all ages and in particular in the pediatric age, he claims the Dr. Giuseppe Morino, Head of the Food Education OU Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, there is the variety that for snacks can be represented by sweet proposals alternating with savory ones, different every day, at least within a week. Two varied and nutritionally adequate daily snacks represent a necessary contribution to harmonious growth, without favoring the overweight or related metabolic diseases ”.

The rules of the perfect snack
Here are the eight words used by the "Manifesto" to describe the snack for children and teenagers:
daily: the snack is a habit, it should be done every day mid-morning and mid-afternoon
Appropriate: different according to the age of the children and energy needs
moderate: it is a snack that must not weigh down, therefore it is forbidden to overdo it
filling: in order not to get to the next meals too hungry it is good not to skip it
Varies: never repeat the same snack every day
Sweet: yes to consumption (moderate) as a snack of a slice of homemade cake or a snack Salata: it is good to accustom children and young people to different flavors, then to a slice of bread with oil and tomato
Serena: it is a moment to live with the right calm, at home, at school or in the park, with parents, grandparents or friends.

Pairings: alternate sweet and savory
Among the combinations and suggestions suggested by the Bambino Gesù Institute is fruit (fresh and dry) it must never fail. It is certainly important to alternate and vary foods, both sweet and savory, such as yogurt, bread, homemade cakes (or packaged), ice cream, smoothies, vegetables. Among the 56 suggested proposals there are also some snacks suitable for a vegetarian food style such as "white pizza with chickpea and tomato hummus ”. Or the introduction of vegetables into snacks with foods of animal origin, for example in the classic sliced sandwich, where the rocket is added. In practice, there is no snack that is too little or too nutritious but different according to the age of the children and the energy requirement: we talk about 150 Kcal for children 4- 6 years, 200 Kcal for children 7-11 years, 260 Kcal for children 12 – 15 years and 285 Kcal for children 15 – 17 years.

Children and young people must learn to love food and this moment of consumption must also be stimulating. In this regard, dr. Morino does not demonize packaged snacks, but to be consumed very moderately and always combined with fresh products such as fruit and vegetables. "Nhe last years the confectionery industry – as emphasized Mario Piccialuti, General Director of Unione Italiana Food – he worked a lot for the improvement of the products and in particular of the snacks ”.
All the suggestions to put into practice the good rules of the perfect snack can be found online at www.merendineitaliane.it.

Mariacristina Coppeto
November 2019

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