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Umbrian cheese pizza recipe, the traditional Easter recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Umbrian cheese pizza recipe, the traditional Easter recipe


Is called “cheese pizzabut this typical recipe from Umbrian tradition it is, instead, a sort of savoury cakehigh and soft, or rather, a seasoned bread. It is a preparation that recalls some others widespread in the regions of Central Italy and typical of Easter holidaysas the casatiello and the tortano Campania and the Easter grows Marche.

Umbrian cheese pizza is a festive bread, prepared like the others Easter bread to celebrate the rebirth and the return of spring. The “pagan” tradition then merged with that religiousand the spring celebrations overlapped with those for the resurrection of Christ.

Also called Easter cake, it goes well with cured meats, especially almonds capocollo, a typical sausage obtained from the meat obtained from the upper part of the pig’s neck. Cheese pizza with capocollo is part of the traditional Easter breakfastconsumed after “the bells are melted”, together with the coratella and the omelette.

Gennaro Esposito’s legume soup is an invitation to Umbria – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay


«It is a dish that expresses perfectly the concreteness of this project, and the reason why I chose to be part of it, says Gennaro Esposito. «At Centumbrie we are lucky enough to work with authentic products grown in the company’s land, and with great ethics: great flavors that we have the task of caressing, to enhance them as much as possible, continues the chef. «Umbria has a solid and important cuisine, for the Evo Bistrot menu I interpreted it in a modern, lighter key, rich in vegetables and also typical meats such as goose or guinea fowl. And beyond this there are Mediterranean touches”, says Esposito, who entrusted the kitchen to his very young pupil in Centumbrie Raffaele Iasevoli.

Goose tortelli

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What you eat at the Evo Bistrot in Centrumbrie

In fact, on the menu there are also many Southern cuisine dishes, especially fish, in an unprecedented and satisfying gastronomic marriage that also tells of Esposito’s roots. The result is a nice choice of dishes that go from raw meats to the chef’s spaghetti with tomato sauce which appear among the first together with Goose tortelli or broken linguine with onion and black truffle broth. Among the second courses, a rich menu of meats made at Josper like Umbrian beef ribeye; Guinea fowl, and also a lot of fish, before an equally long list of vegetarian dishes in which, alongside this wonderful soup of bitter herbs for which Esposito gave us the recipe, there are among others vegetable parmigiana and carpaccio of sweet and sour red turnip petals with pecorino and green sauce. The alternative? Pizza, which at the Evo Bistrot is low, crumbly, light (“but – they are keen to point out – not Roman”. Finally tapas to accompany cocktails from a drinklist in which the signature also made with the fragrant Centubrie extra virgin olive oil, or to the company’s wines or those produced mainly in the area which follow the same philosophy embraced by the family Cinaglia and Menicucci: as local and natural as possible.

Christmas appetizers: 10 ideas to try at least once – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

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Whether we’re talking about the Christmas Eve dinner or the lunch on the 25th, the Christmas appetizers they are often a big worry. What to do to amaze family members, without taking away the warmth of tradition? No problem: just use your imagination and seasonal ingredients.

A classic, for example, is the Neapolitan reinforcement salad, which has always been a side dish but, given the richness of dinners and today’s lunches, it can easily be “moved” to the starter. One appetizer pull the other one. Staying on the topic of appetizers traditional, also interesting fried cauliflower, typical of Abruzzo and Calabrian cuisine. Or the zeppoline with seaweed, another delicacy of Neapolitan cuisine. But let’s try to revisit tradition: so here are 10 ideas to start Christmas off right at the table

Christmas appetizers: our 10 unmissable ideas

So let’s start immediately with the 10 best recipes in our cookbook, to be revisited with imagination: from quiche to classic crostini to raw fish.

Spicy salami quiche

Speaking of Calabria: why not put spicy salami or ‘nduja in a delicious quiche, for an entirely Mediterranean dish? The savory pie is filled with a filling of ricotta, cherry tomatoes, spicy salami, oregano, olives and extra virgin olive oil. But be careful: the risk is that her taste “cannibalizes” the rest of the lunch…

Crostini with stracchino and sausage

Liver croutons Tuscans they are a classic of the Italian mixed appetizer. And all year round. But we offer you an interesting variant: crostini with sausage and stracchino. After lightly grilling the bread, just fill it with stracchino and crumbled sausage and put it in the oven for a few minutes.

Cockles au gratin or… raw

An excellent appetizer for any dinner, the cockles from the Northern Adriatic can be a truly original idea: the shells must be filled with breadcrumbs, garlic, parsley, extra virgin olive oil, white wine, pepper and parsley. And then cooked in the oven. Or, for those who have a trusted fishmonger, shells and molluscs, all raw.

Savory yule log

The name recalls the famous French dessert, but obviously it is something completely different: take some slices of bread for sandwichessprinkle it with Capricciosa salad and mayonnaiseand then roll them up giving them the shape of a log. A quick and really clever appetizer! A bit like slices of sandwich in the shape of a Christmas tree…

Lasagna cupcakes

Put the Emilian lasagna in the appetizer? You can, by cutting the lasagna into squares and creating scenographic shapes baskets. And seasoning them with sauce tomato, bechamel and sausage.

Speck and cheese rolls

Slices of speckSouth Tyrol roll up and fill with a stick of Asiago and chives. Heat in the oven or on the griddle. Is there a simpler and, at the same time, appetizing appetizer?

Orange prawns

Refined and Mediterranean dish: it is necessary to cut thesliced ​​orange, with all the peel, and cook it lightly in butter. Then, once the slices have been removed, i prawns shelled, they are cooked in a pan with Cointreau, chives, orange juice and salt. And then you arrange the prawns on the orange slices like a crouton. To try!

Gourmet panettone

The most classic of Milanese Christmas desserts also exists in savory version, all to be stuffed. There are ready-made ones: just cut it into a series of discs of dough about one centimeter high, divide them in two and then move on to the filling, adding the butter first. And here the imagination kicks in: salami fantasies, smoked salmon, shrimp with cocktail sauce, cheese layers with taleggio cream, gorgonzola and crescenza. And then again olive pâté, dried tomatoes, grilled vegetables, walnuts, Russian salad, pesto, béchamel sauce, pickles, pickles. A true “tower” of taste!

Radicchio boats

Treviso red radicchio or Belgian endive can be used for spectacular “boats”. The crew? Mozzarella, anchovies and rocket. And you can also use the hoax.

Parmesan Cheese Baskets

They always make an impact on the table. But what they contain should not be underestimated at all: don’t settle for the usual saladbut enrich them with slices of cured meats and cheeses, mushrooms and why not, also use someegg with Norcia black truffle!

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