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Puff pastry recipe with yogurt and strawberries – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

340 g Greek yogurt
280 g puff pastry
250 g strawberries
15 g sliced almonds
vanilla icing sugar
lemon

Duration: 20 min

Level: Easy

Dose: 4 people

For the recipe of puff pastry with yogurt and strawberries, cut 4 puffs of about 12 cm in diameter from the puff pastry and puncture them in the center. Sprinkle them with almonds, brush them with water and sprinkle them with icing sugar. Place them well apart on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and bake them at 200 ° C for 10 minutes.

Remove the puff pastry discs and gently squeeze them in the center: the edge will be higher, forming a kind of tartlet. Cut the strawberries into wedges. Work the yogurt with 30 g of icing sugar, the finely grated zest of half a lemon and a few drops of juice. Spread a quarter of the yogurt in the center of each puff pastry and complete with the sliced strawberries.

Sweet rice with strawberries recipe – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

160 g skimmed milk
40 g Carnaroli rice
106 g strawberries
14 g sugar
a vanilla bean
bitter cocoa
fresh mint

Duration: 25 min

Level: Middle

Dose: 1 people

To make the sweet rice with the strawberries, bring the milk to the boil with the vanilla, add the rice and cook it for about 20 minutes (when the rice is cooked, it must be well cooked). Drain it, sugar it and remove the vanilla (the vanilla stick, washed and well dried, can be reused for another preparation). Put the rice in a mold and place it in the refrigerator to cool for about an hour. Wash the strawberries thoroughly, cut them into chunks. Turn out the rice and serve, sprinkled with cocoa, with strawberries and fresh mint leaves.

Ricotta cheesecake with strawberries, the best recipe – Italian Cuisine

There cheesecake it's always a good idea, especially when the first rays of the sun make us want fresh desserts, perhaps enriched with seasonal ingredients. And in our recipe stylist Beatrice Prada there are all these things, from lightness of ricotta to the sweetness of strawberries. Here's how to prepare it.

The recipe for ricotta cheesecake with strawberries

Ingredients for the base

150 g plain flour, 30 g sugar, 100 g chopped butter

Ingredients for the cream

300 g cream cheese, 500 g ricotta, 250 g sugar, 60 ml lemon juice plus zest, 1 tablespoon of corn starch, 1 tablespoon of water, 5 eggs

Decoration ingredients

80 g strawberries, 20 g sugar

How to make strawberry ricotta cheesecake

Heat the oven to 160 degrees. Butter a 22 cm diameter mold and line the bottom with parchment paper to prepare the base, pour the flour, sugar, butter into the pitcher of the planetary mixer and mix the mixture for at least two minutes until the dough is well formed , pour on the bottom of the mold and with the help of the back of a spoon, crush it on the bottom until the surface is compact.

Bake for about 20 minutes, then take out of the oven and leave to cool. After baking, prepare the cream: in a large bowl pour the spreadable cheese, ricotta, sugar, lemon juice, grated zest and mix until the mixture is creamy; then add the friend of corn dissolved in the water.

Break the eggs one at a time and add them to the cream, mix well until homogeneous.

Lightly butter the walls of the mold and gently pour the cream, blend the strawberries with the sugar and sift the sauce to remove the seeds, pour the sauce on the cream, without mixing it, but leaving it on the surface, distribute it with the back of a spoon, decorating to taste.

Bake at 160g for about 45/50 minutes.

Recipe by Beatrice Prada, photo by Giandomenico Frassi