How to make panettone – Recipe

It is Christmas now and already for some time the shelves of supermarkets have colored cartons containing panettone of all brands. Some good, others less, but certainly all treated with conserved and undoubted quality ingredients, as indeed all commercial products.

And if this year we tried to buy less commercial panettone and maybe an artisan prepared with passion, quality ingredients, without preservatives and lots of patience?

Or we can try to make our panettone, following the recipe of some teachers of the Istituto Professionale Statale Servizi for Food and Wine and Hospitality Hospitality TONINO GUERRA of Cervia.

It is not a simple recipe, but the school kids have done well and the result is excellent!

Following is the recipe and all the stages of preparation of the artisan panettone.

1st dough

Ready-made sourdough 900 gr. (see the recipe here)
Butter 1 kg.
Egg yolks 600 gr.
Water 1,230 gr.

Knead the yeast and yolks. When the dough is smooth and elastic, add the soft butter to the ointment a little at a time and let it absorb. Pour into an oily tub and mark its height. The dough must triple its volume. At least 12 hours will be required; it all depends on the strength of the yeast.

Final mixture temperature 27/29 ° C

2nd dough

Sugar 650 gr.
Panettone flour (W 340 – 380) 1300 gr.
Butter 100 gr.
Water 650 gr.
Egg yolks 600 gr.
Salt 45 gr.
Malt 50 gr.
Honey 250 gr.
Cocoa butter 45 gr.
Condensed milk 100 gr.
Thaiti vanilla beans n.4
Peel of 4 grated oranges.
Alternatively Boil with 100 gr. 200 gr of orange candied water and blend.
Candied fruit or raisins or both total 2 kg.

Knead the first dough the flour and the malt, with the water and the yolks added several times. Then add the sugar and honey, always a little at a time letting it absorb. Dissolve condensed milk with cocoa butter and a little butter. Add little by little together with the butter and let it absorb. Finally add salt and very little water to facilitate melting and absorption. Finally add the greased raisins with melted butter. Mixing temperature max 30 ° C
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Leave to stand for at least 45/50 minutes on a buttered table.

Cut into pieces and roll the dough. Place in paper cups and let rise for at least 6 hours or until the dough reaches the edge.

Glaze and bake at 190 degrees for at least 45 minutes.

The core temperature should be 93 ° C.
Remove from oven and allow to cool downside down.

For the Icing

Almond Flour 1.125 gr.
Icing sugar 1,800 gr.
Switch to refiner and knead with:
Flour 100 gr.
Fecola 100 gr.
Corn starch 100 gr.
Albume 750 gr.

 

 

Busiate – One of Sicily’s most popular dishes

Sicily being the center of the Mediterranean has culinary traditions that blend different cultures and make it a tourist destination, not only for the sea, the temples and history but also for its gastronomic specialties.

Busiate – One of Sicily’s most popular dishes

We know all the rice croquettes, cannoli, cous cous, caponata, cassata, … but perhaps not many know busiate.
Busiate are a typical pasta from the Trapani area prepared with a dough made from durum wheat flour and water.
We “condiamo” here as we were taught in Trapani, in fact … with Pesto Trapanese.

busiate trapanesi

Busiate – One of Sicily’s most popular dishes

Ingredients Pre 4 persons:

400 g of busiate
2 cloves of garlic Nubia
150 g red tomatoes firm
50 g almonds
50 g basil
extra virgin olive oil
salt

Wash and blanch the tomatoes for 15 seconds. Cool in ice water and peel them. Remove seeds.
Put the almonds, garlic, basil and salt in a mortar marble. Crush all the ingredients until you get a cream. add a little ‘oil and the tomatoes and crush them.
Cook busiate in salted water. Drain and dress with the pesto, without heating.
Divide among 4 plates.

Hummus – Chickpeas cream

The Hummus is very popular throughout the eastern Mediterranean in particular Arab countries, Israel and Lebanon.

Do you know how to make Hummus?

There are minor variations, but the base is always the same: boiled chickpeas. The other ingredients are usually Tahini (sesame paste), lemon, extra virgin olive oil or corn, salt, garlic, parsley, paprika or chili. Among the versions proposed Expo 2015, the most appreciated was the Lebanese version, which does not contain garlic satisfied the taste of most people.

hummus

Here is our version:

ingredients:
150 g dried chickpeas or 500 g cooked chickpeas
30 g extra virgin olive oil
15 g cumin
2 garlic cloves
juice of 1 lemon
water
salt
50 g Tahini
2 cloves garlic (optional)
parsley (optional)
paprika (optional)
pepper (optional)

It is preferable to use dried chickpeas and not ones already cooked canned, because it tastier.
So start by putting the dried chickpeas to soak in plenty of cold water and leave for 24 hours.
Drain, wash them well; put them in a pot with cold water and cook simmering for about 2 hours.
In a large pan put olive oil and the garlic-plate, if you want to use and make it brown; add the cumin, leave over low heat without letting it burn and add the chickpeas. Leave in the pan 2/3 minutes, then put it in a blender, add the tahini, lemon juice and whisk adding boiling water until creamy with just the right consistency. Season with salt.

Serve the hummus in a bowl with chopped parsley, pepper or paprika.

The hummus as a traditional Middle East is accompanied by Falafel (meatballs usually made with beans) or unleavened bread, but it is also great with a nice array of home fresh vegetables.

Mussels with potato soup, leek, turmeric and coconut milk

This is one of the recipes proposed in September by me and my staff (Terrace Bartolini), at the Show Cooking in the Magazzini del Sale in Cervia.

At the public present he loved it. The recipe is simple … so why do not you try it?

Mussels with cream of potato, leek, turmeric and coconut milk

Mussels with cream of potato, leek, turmeric and coconut milk

Ingredients for 4 people :

750 g potatoes
100 g leek
1.5 g Turmeric
1300 g water
10 g salt
50 g coconut milk

for 100 g of soup 1 g of lecithin

Peel the potatoes, wash, cut in half, then sliced.
Clean the leeks, keeping aside a little part green (as you will need to garnish by the end) finely chop all the other and make it dry in a small pan with a little olive oil.
In a pan, put the potatoes with a little extra virgin olive oil and brown them low continually mixing fire up when you begin to make a colored crust.
Add the water, the porrotti stews and salt.
Slowly cooked.
Clean the mussels removing the beard and washing them rubbing each other and changing the water several times.
Put them in a pan with a trickle of water, cover with a lid and open them on the fire.
Drain, discard the shell.
Blend the bread crumbs and fry for a few seconds in hot oil and drain it in a steel colander, place it over a paper towel and salt lightly.
Fill the mussels with fried bread crumbs and place them on a baking sheet.
Wash the celery and cut into small pieces of 2 cm in length, then blanch in salted water.
With a hand blender, blend the cream of potatoes, add the coconut milk and turmeric
Combine the soy lecithin and also continue blending trying to incorporate air to the cream, which will become due lecithin beautiful soft and fluffy.

Dip the mussels in the oven at 210ºC for 2 minutes and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Divide the cream into 4 bowls.
Arrange on cream 6 pieces of celery for each dish and placing on top of each piece a mussel.
Complete with raw porrotto cut into thin strips.
Serve hot!

Matteo Casadio

Pagnotta di Pasqua

La Pasqua si avvicina, così ho pensato di giocare d’anticipo e vi pubblico la ricetta della Pagnotta di Pasqua. Questa è un’altra ricetta di Gregorio Grippo, chef del ristorante La Buca (Stella Michelin) di Cesenatico.
La pagnotta pasquale è un dolce tipico della tradizione Romagna, più precisamente della zona di Sarsina, nelle colline dell’entroterra cesenate.
Era abitudine iniziare a mangiarla la mattina di Pasqua con l’uovo benedetto e si continuava anche i giorni successivi.
La Pagnotta era un mangiare dei poveri e per questo si prepara con prodotti semplici.
Dopo le chiacchere ecco la ricetta.

Pagnotta di Pasqua di Sarsina
Ingredienti:
1,5 kg farina 00
200 g zucchero
200 g uova
625 ml acqua a 25˚C
200 g burro temperatura ambiente
20 g lievito di birra
aroma arancia
uvetta qb
Impastare e lasciare lievitare a 30˚C per 12 ore
Formare delle pagnotte da 300 g e lasciare lievitare altre 4/5 ore
Cuocere a 190˚C per 30 minuti.

Grazie Grippo, ci vediamo presto!