Tag: summer

Shrimp paste, summer queen – Italian Cuisine

Feel for fresh, delicate, sweet but full flavors at the same time. In the summer we are hunting for new tastes that know how to support us in the great fight in the heat, but at the same time know celebrate our desire to party, share and enjoy ourselves, even at the table. And one of the dishes that seem born to do this is just the pasta with shrimp, a great classic that lends itself to be served hot, warm, cold and enriched with many different ingredients. Here are some rules and tasty ideas to turn it into a summer dish.

Shrimp cooking

At the base of a successful pasta with shrimp, there is the right cooking of the prawns. Which must be quick and delicate to preserve its juice and softness. If you opt for boiling, it will take a couple of minutes in boiling water and, if you are preparing a cold dough, you will block the cooking in a bowl with cold water and ice.

Shrimp size

When we talk about shrimp we mean small shrimp that lend themselves to being cooked in very tasty sauces with the whole shell and the head or cooked quickly to enrich delicate first courses. In any case we treat these small crustaceans with care and we also use the shells and the heads to give more flavor to our dishes. If we choose large shrimp tails instead, we will have to take care to clean them carefully and serve them after a short cooking, perhaps on top of the pasta dish. If you love raw, you can complete each dish with a small portion of tartare.

The ingredients ok

To enhance our pasta with shrimp, we can focus on a group of ingredients that can enhance this combination. Yes with lemon, lime, mozzarella, burrata, almonds, sesame, rocket, cherry tomatoes and courgettes. But also to other ingredients from the sea like mussels, clams and squid.

In the gallery above, 20 pastas with delicious prawns.

Fresh and light desserts for the summer – Italian Cuisine

Do not give up taste without losing sight of the calories you can, with light desserts made of fruit, to satisfy the sweet tooth, without guilt

Do you always have to give up something sweet? Especially in the summer, with the costume test on the doorstep? In fact, this season could give us the opportunity to cheat more lightly, given the already more dietary meals we consume because of the heat and heat. There are so many proposals from light and fresh desserts able to satisfy the desire and at the same time of keep your weight under control. Ice creams and sorbets, mousses and jellies, all made with lots of fruit and low in calories, to regenerate the spirit, without guilt.

Light ice creams

The ice cream it is undoubtedly one of the most loved sweets by all, large and small. Very often you give up thinking about how many calories they hide behind a scoop of cream, but a little cunning is enough to be able to enjoy an ice cream cup without having to come up with exhausting gym sessions immediately afterwards. The secret is replace the fat part with something lighter: the yogurt with cream, for example. And, given that the yogurt is not mounted, to have volume, mount two egg whites. And then choose fruit flavors instead of creams. And take the fruit well ripe, so as to decrease the quantities of sugar needed.

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Fruit mousse

Little time to prepare them, no baking, and an amazing result: they are fruit mousses, a sweet spoon which is always welcome, which is prepared by mixing pureed fruit, a syrup of water and sugar and gelatin. Also good without cream, for a delicate and low-calorie fine meal.

Greedy sorbets

The sorbets they are fresh and light desserts, which should normally be served between courses but are often offered as a meal. They are prepared with lots of fresh fruit (or aromatic herbs, such as mint) and a sugar syrup. They are passed in the ice cream maker, or, if you don't have it, in a bowl that you will keep in the freezer, remembering to break the compound with the prongs of a fork until you get the right consistency of your sorbet.

And now, in the tutorial, some ideas for a light dessert but full of taste

What figs! 10 ideas to bring the sweetest summer fruits to the table – Italian Cuisine

From salad to pizza, paired with ricotta and cheese, many sweet and savory dishes to celebrate this seasonal fruit, really versatile

They have already arrived on our tables i sweeter fruits this season. We're talking about figs. I'm delicious to eat naturally and freshly picked when they are soft and meaty, but have you ever thought of adding them to yours sweet and savory preparations? You will be amazed by their versatility.
We want to offer you lots of ideas for using them in the kitchen and you will discover that they can become really special ingredients, as unusual, of your recipes.

Variety of figs

We distinguish in general two categories of figs: the early ones collected in spring and the real ones that you collect in summer. The figs that are harvested in May, also known as fioroni, are larger than the summer ones.
Then we distinguish three types of fig, based on color.
The green fig it is the most common, has a thin skin and is juicy; the purple fig it is the sweetest; the black fig it is the most dry and fleshy.
All can be used in the kitchen, the important thing is that they are ripe, but not too soft.

How to store figs

Figs are fruits very delicate and for this it is important to preserve them in the right way. Buy them only if you have to consume them quickly because they get ruined easily. Choose them ripe and sweet-smelling and do not wash them before eating them. Keep them in the fridge covered with kitchen paper. If they are not very ripe, leave them at room temperature.
It is not necessary to peel them, especially if they have a very thin skin. Simply remove the stem and wash them thoroughly.

Flipping through the tutorial find now 10 ideas to use them in the kitchen in a simple and fast, but original way.

* In the photo our fig jam served with a pistachio crunchy