4 November 2012 // flaviabi
This is a basic dough which can be used for lots of preparation: my pancakes, filled pancakes or whatever!
1 kg. white flour
1 lt beer
oil to fry
Mix when the flour with the beer to obtain a soft and elastic dough. Do not add any salt or sugar so you can use it for both solution. In my case I did serve it with honey and almonds as dessert, and with a marinade of cherries’ tomatoes with basilc garlic and chilly. Delicious!
Category Antipasti: vari, I dolci, Senza categoria | Tags: arvoltolo,PANCAKES,tortucce,Umbria | No Comments
27 April 2012 // flaviabi
cute and good …… and you can taste at the Hosteria Mattta:
Ingredients for 4 people:
100 gr black rice
50 gr. basmati rice
10-15 asparagus
4 slices of bacon
powdered ginger
salt
chilli
wild mint
olive oil
4 aluminum molds
Boil the rice in two separate pots (they have different cooking times). When they are cooked, drain and let cool on a cold surface. separating the grains. Cut the asparagus by removing the last part of the stem. Cut almost to the tip, washers,taking care to keep the tips whole. Boil water with salt, and half a clove of garlic,asparagus, Throw washers and cook. Drain, keeping the water and cook the tipsfor 5-8 minutes, keeping them crisp. Purée the asparagus slices of cooked,adding a little oil, salt and pepper and a few leaves of mint. At this point in twoseparate bowls, whisk the rice: white with ginger powder and a little oil, and blackwith a pinch of salt and a drizzle of olive oil. We are ready to assemble the cake.Butter the ramekins, place a spoonful of basmati rice, black rice on a spoon back and forth through 180 ° in oven for 7-8 minutes. Reversed in the pie plates, place a generous spoonful of cream of asparagus, the tips of asparagus and a slice of bacon you’ve baked in oven grill …… Good!
Category Antipasti: vari | Tags: asparagi,ASPARAGUS,BACON,pancetta,riso basmati,RISO VENERE,tortino di riso | No Comments
2 March 2012 // flaviabi
Ingredients for 4 people:
1 package of puff pastry
5 artichokes
1 clove of garlic
1 shallot
1 lemon
Half a glass of white wine
parsley
Caciottina ( soft cow cheese)
2 eggs
salt
chili
Finely chop the shallot and garlic and let it brown in a skillet with olive oil. Clean the artichokes from the outer leaves, cut into thin slices and placing them in water with a teaspoon of vinegar. Drain well and cook in the pan with the garlic and shallots, white wine, and salt and pepper. When cooked, remove them from the heat and let cool. Now add the beaten eggs, mixing well, and the lemon juice and parsley finely cut. In a baking dish with nonstick paper, put a layer of puff pastry, the mixture of artichokes, Caciottina cheese cut into cubes, and cover with another layer of puff pastry. Brush the outside with olive oil and bake at 180degrees for 20 minutes.
Category Antipasti: vari, Le verdure | Tags: ARTICHOKES' CAKE,SCALOGNO,SHALLOTS.CACIOTTINA,TORTA DI CARCIOFI | No Comments
16 February 2012 // flaviabi
Ingredients for 4 jars about 200 g.each.:
6-7 big red onions from Cannara (Umbria, 3 bay leaves, 125 gr. White sugar, one lemon juice, one apple, 1 pinch of salt, two tablespoons of oil, chili, coriander.
Cut into stripes the onions and cook for few minutes with two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Add grated apple, bay leaves, the lemon juice, sugar, salt, 4-5 grains of coriander, chili (according to your taste) and cook for about one hour until everything is reduced, Put in the jar still hot and close tightly.
Category Antipasti: vari, Seasons’ Conserves, le salse | Tags: confettura di cipolle di Cannara,onions' jam,pecorino di pienza | No Comments
15 January 2012 // flaviabi
Ingredients for 10-12 cm tarts diam.8
pie crust mix (brisè) see the recipe here
2 tomini cheese about 60-70 grams (Tomino is a goat cheese)
80 gr. chicory
100 gr. Of spicy salami
1 clove of garlic
oil
salt
chive
Boil chicory in salted water . When it is cooked squeeze and sautè in a pan with oil, garlic and salt. Let it cool a bit ’and then cut with a knife, and add in chopped tomini cheese. Roll out the dough and cut it in circle with a cookie-cutter.Place in a baking pan with non-stick paper and place over each circle the chicory, chives thinly sliced, and diced salami. Bake at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
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19 December 2011 // flaviabi
Easy but tasty appetizer:
for 4 people
250 gr. Chicken breast
60 g of bacon cut into small cubes
250 g mixed salad
Almond flakes
balsamic vinegar
Horseradish root
Extra virgin olive oil
salt
chili
One tablespoon of white flour
frying oil
Cut the chicken breast into strips and roll them in flour, sifting through the excess flour. Fry in oil until golden. In a pan fry the bacon into small cubes. Prepare a serving dish with the salad, grated over the salad a little ’horseradish, add a teaspoon of almond flakes, a teaspoon of bacon and drizzled with olive oil, salt and balsamic vinegar, put on top the fillets of fried chicken and serve it
Category Antipasti: vari | Tags: BALSAMIC,CHICKEN,insalata,pollo,RAFANO,SALAD | No Comments
11 November 2011 // flaviabi
It ‘s true : fried are good shoes too! And then I buttercrumbe (with flour, egg, sparkling mineral water black grapes, pumpkin and mango with homemade spring rolls
(rice paper, stuffed with cabbage and carrots), served with sauce soybean and horseradish!
Perfect oriental atmosphere!
Category Antipasti: vari | Tags: INVOLTINI PRIMAVERA,MANGO,SPRING ROLLS,UVA FRITTA,ZUCCA | No Comments
3 November 2011 // flaviabi
Ingredients for 4 people:
250 gr. Flour
2 eggs
25 gr. yeast
100 gr. Goat cheese
A pinch of salt
Chili
Extra virgin olive oil
2 glasses of water
150 gr. broccoli
12 aluminum molds
butter
Stir the flour with the yolks of two eggs, add salt, goat cheese cut into small cubes and the yeast. And two glasses of water. Whip the whites of two eggs and add it to the mixture, being careful to mix it gently. Let it rest for 30 minutes. In the meantime in a pan with salted water, boil broccoli for 15 minutes. Drain well, cut into small pieces and dress with oil and chili and add to the mixture. Butter the molds and put the mixture. Bake at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes
Category Antipasti: vari, Le verdure | Tags: BROCCOLETTI ROMANI,FORMAGGIO DI CAPRA,GOAT CHEESE | No Comments
31 October 2011 // flaviabi
Ingredients for 4 people:
1oo grams. Of fagiolina (Trasimeno beans)
1 red onion
1 bay leaf
2 sage leaves
1 sprig of rosemary
2 tablespoons of white wine
1 clove of garlic
50 gr. Of bacon
1 slice of bread
oil
salt
Black pepper (or chili)
Put in plenty of water all vegetables and fagiolina Trasimeno and boil for 50 minutes. Cut the bacon and the bread into cubes and fry (first) the bacon in a pan and when golden brown add the wine, and then the bread and cook together for a few minutes.
When the beans and cooked, drain and pass it in the blender to create a cream, help (if necessary) with a few tablespoons of the cooking water. When the cream is ready add a pinch of salt. Create a lot of spoons for tasting with the cream. Add, on the top, the bacon and croutons, a little oil and a sprinkling of pepper. This cream is also great on pasta, sauté the cooked pasta with this cream and then serve it with crispy bacon on top!
Category Antipasti: vari | Tags: BACON,FAGIOLINA DEL TRASIMENO,pancetta | No Comments
30 October 2011 // flaviabi
Ingredients for 4 people:
4 slices of bread (preferably two days old)
1 egg
3 tablespoons of flour
150 gr. Fagiolina del Trasimeno (Umbria typical beans)
1 red onion
Flowers of wild fennel
salt
Black pepper (or chili)
Extra virgin olive oil
When water id boiling pour the beans and cook for 50 minutes.Drain and dress with extra virgin olive oil, salt, black pepper and an onion cut into thin slices. Stir well and let stand. Beat the eggs, dip the slices and then pass it in flour. Put plenty of oil in a frying pan and fry the bread slices until golden brown. When ready, place the seasoned fagiolina on it , shredded flowers of fennel, a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkling of pepper.
Category Antipasti: vari | Tags: beans,FAGIOLINA DEL TRASIMENO | 1 Comment