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Mayonnaise Recipe | The Italian kitchen – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Creamy, inviting, delicious: mayonnaise is one of the most loved and widespread sauces in the world. So much so that supermarket shelves are full of it and it has become customary to buy it. Preparing it at home, however, is not difficult at all. By following our recipe-tutorial you won’t go wrong.

Is mayonnaise French or Spanish?

Although most attribute the paternity of mayonnaise to the French, the first written document of the mayonnaise recipe is found in the Spanish manuscript Art de la Cuina, the free Menorcan cuisine of the s. XVIII by Fra Francesco Roger, a Franciscan friar of the Real Monasterio de Santa Clara. Not only that, according to some theories his birth occurred during the Carthaginian rule in Spain with reference to the geographical area of the island of Minorca. Another hypothesis is that mayonnaise was born in the French city of Bayonne and mayonnaise it would be a modification of bayonnaisebut there are still many various theories that have emerged over the centuries.

Pea and ricotta cannelloni: recipe with and without cooking – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Pea and ricotta cannelloni without cooking

I often prepare this recipe in summerwhen the desire to cook is less and less and it is too hot to turn on the oven.
I prepare the cannelloni with carasau bread, slightly moistened with water and oil.
I fill it with peas and ricotta, wrap it well and then arrange everything in a baking dish. Complete with cherry tomatoes or ox heart tomatoes cut into cubes and seasoned with oil, salt and plenty of basil or oregano.
I replace the peas with lo raw spinach when I really don’t feel like turning on the stove.

Carasau bread for making cannelloni without cooking.

Cannelloni crepes with peas and ricotta

Do you love crepes?
Then you absolutely must use them to make cannelloni.
Prepare a classic dough for savory crepes, also using wholemeal flours if you want, and then fill each crepe with the pea and ricotta filling.
Cannelloni made in this way are much more delicate and tasty, they cook first in the oven and you can fill them as you prefer.

Watercress and cheese soufflé recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Of French origin, the soufflé it is a classic kitchen preparation that can be made with many ingredients for a different dish every time. In today’s recipe we propose it in a spring variant because we prepared it with watercress, a spontaneous aromatic herb that is found with the start of the summer.

For the recipe Watercress and cheese soufflé we made one watercress bechamel to which we have joined grain, gruyere grated and, finally, whipped egg whites which serve to “swell” the soufflé. We served the appetizer complete with floured and fried sage leaves.

Try the recipe and also discover: Spinach, gorgonzola and walnut soufflé, Smoked ham soufflé, Vegetable soufflé.