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Valentine’s Day pignolata with honey icing, an affectionate and tasty dessert – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Valentine's Day pignolata with honey icing, an affectionate and tasty dessert



There Valentine’s Day pignolataa traditional Calabrian dessert, is a donut-shaped structure honey glazed which symbolizes love in honor of the patron saint of lovers. On February 14, it becomes a gastronomic symbol of shared joy, rooted in the rich Calabrian culinary tradition. Its circular shape represents the eternity of affection. Made with fried dough balls, eggs and butter, it is covered in a shiny, balancing honey glaze sweetness and aroma. Served during celebrations and tables in honor of the saint, Valentine’s Day pignolata is versatile, also suitable for other special occasions, bringing the sweet flavors of Calabria to the table.



Valentine’s Day at the home of Ernst and Frau Knam: the savory recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay


What is your place of heart?
TO. «As a Venetian from the Cannaregio district, I always recommend the Serenissima: it is an easily reachable destination. Then in Venice, the view at sunset from the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice for me is one of the most beautiful in the city.”

How do you create the right atmosphere?
AND. «For a dinner, focus on a surprise detail like mine cocoa candles. Soft lights, a beautiful bouquet of flowers on the table, and then a short and light menu, easy to prepare. A bubble served strictly in the cup. Finish with a dessert and two chocolates. To then move to the sofa, full but still light…”.

Frau Knam, or Alessandra Mion, and Ernst Knam.

The recipe for a lasting love like yours?
AND. «We also argue and in those cases we evoke Cristina: “But that day our friend couldn’t mind her own business?”. Jokes aside, the secret is to listen and not just talk and then take a step back. The butterflies go away, let’s cultivate love with small gestures every day. My parents, together for 50 years, are an example to me.”
TO. «Speaking of small gestures, I find that too giving just a single flower is a profound gesture. The flower is ephemeral, but it is also something to take care of. The best thing is finding it when you least expect it. In the office at the beginning of the week, far from a birthday. It helps overcome the misunderstandings that everyone faces.”

Recipe: Risotto pasta with pea cream and scallops

Risotto pasta with pea cream and scallops: one of the Knam couple’s Valentine’s Day recipes.

Ingredients for 2 people

  • 450 g vegetable broth
  • 150 g risoni pasta
  • 150 g pea puree
  • 50 g white wine
  • 50 g 80% dark chocolate, chopped
  • 30 g butter
  • 30 g extra virgin olive oil
  • 20 g cocoa butter
  • 6 scallops
  • 6 candied lemon julienne seeds
  • fresh herbs (thyme, marjoram, chives)
  • Maldon salt
  • Sarawak white pepper

Method

  1. Make a classic risotto, using pasta instead of rice. Finally, stir in the pea puree, butter, chocolate and extra virgin olive oil.
  2. Sear the scallops in a non-stick pan with cocoa butter and salt with Maldon salt.
  3. Place the risotto pasta on a flat plate.
  4. Finished with three decorated scallops and lemon julienne.
  5. Decorate with herbs and Sarawak white pepper.

Valentine's Day Menu | Salt and pepper – Italian Cuisine

Valentine's Day Menu | Salt and pepper


Look for the Valentine's menu perfect? Discover the romantic recipes of Sale & Pepe that will make you look great with your sweetie.

For the aperitif you can serve a good glass of bubbles and fragrant heart-shaped paprika taralli.

As an appetizer you can bet on both fish and meat: something better than the aphrodisiac oysters, of the lobster carpaccio super chic or rustic polenta croutons, which you can accompany with a snack of black olives and toasted bread? They are all tasty and easy to prepare dishes.

As a first think of the classics linguine with lobster, great effect dish ideal for a special occasion, or a risotto with scampi, walnuts and balsamic vinegar, refined and inviting. If you want something appetizing and at the same time refined, here are the precious ones crepes with robiola cream with truffles, a delight for the palate.

For second you could cook a dish of prawns with pink pepper: the prawns cooked in wet Cognac and then flavored with cream and Champagne. A bit of panache, served with class.

If you prefer meat, here are the Parmentier tournedos with orange, a French-inspired dish in which one of the main ingredients is mashed potatoes, which forms a full-bodied layer above each round slice of beef. The fillet is then seasoned with a mixture of sage and garlic, wet with the orange wine sauce. You will surely blow.

If you have little time available, the tartare with egg sauce it is ready in a few minutes: the minced meatballs are placed in small bowls lined with salad and served with a sauce of egg yolks, mustard and lemon juice plus vinaigrette. Simple and very good.

The dessert is the most important part! What do you think of spicy chocolate cones? The cones are crepes, very easy to make, and the pepper, as you know, is an excellent aphrodisiac …

If al caliente you prefer freshness, then the right dessert is a trio of sorbets with passion fruit, to taste teaspoon after teaspoon.

With the Sale & Pepe Valentine's Day recipes your dinner will be unforgettable.

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