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SALMON CROUTONS

Ingredients

1 baguette

100g of smoked salmon

200g of spreadable cheese

1 spring of parsley

Lemon juice (to taste)

Salt and pepper (to taste)


Preparation

Cut the baguette into slices, place them on a baking sheet and toast them in the oven at 200°for 5-10 minutes.
Meanwhile, put the spreadable cheese in a bowl with a few drops of lemon and a pinch of salt. Separately cut the smoked salmon into pieces and chop the parsley. When the bread becomes crispy, spread on each slice a spoonful of spreadable cheese and a few pieces of salmon. Serve your salmon croutons with a spring of parsley and a pinch of pepper.

Entrées

DJEI MHAMMER

Ingredients for chicken

1 whole cleaned chicken

1 tablespoon salt

1 tablespoon ginger powder

½ tablespoon curcuma

1 glove of garlic

1 strand of olive oil

enough water

Ingredients for sauce

1 strand of olive oil

1 tablespoon ginger powder

½ tablespoon curcuma

1 tablespoon salt

some filaments of saffron

4 onions

1 handful of coriander

1 lemon wedge

1 bowl of olives

2.5 l of water

Preparation

To start: put in a small bowl the spiles for the marinade (salt; ginger and turmeric).

Add on top a peeled and grated clove of garlic .

Then add water and mix. Brush all the chiken with this marinade sauce and let the sauce rest.

For the sauce: peel the onions and slice them finely. In a casserole, put the olive oil and onions. Add ginger, turmeric, saffron and water and mix.

Add the chiken on top and a small bunch of parsley and coriander strings. The idea is just to give a little taste, it will be removed at the end of cooking.

Once the water is boiling, cover and cook for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, collect the lemon peels and cut them into small pieces. When the chiken is ready, remove it from the sauce and put it in a baking dish and let it brown for 20 minutes at 200°c. In the sauce put the grated candied lemon peels and the olives and mix. Simmer a few minutes until the sauce reduces. Once the chiken is golden brown, place it into a dish and put over the reduced sauce. Decorate with a few slices of candied lemon.

TIKKI CHAAT

INGREDIENTS

3 boiled potatoes, peeled and mashed
0,75 tsp khasmiri red chilli powder
0,38 tsp turmeric
3 tbsp corn flour
0,75 tsp garam masala(mixed spices)
0,75 tsp dried mango powder
6 tsp sunflower oil
0,38 tsp chaat masala salt to taste







FOR CHAAT (1 serving)

3 tbsp yogurt
1,5 tbsp green chutney
1,5 tamarind chutney
pinch of red chilli powder
pinch of salt
1,5 tbsp finely chopped onion
1,5 tbsp finely chopped tomato
handful of sev
pinch of cumin powder
pinch of chaat masala
few coriander leaves




Instructions
Firstly, in a large mixing bowl take 2 boiled and mashed potatoes. Add chilli powder, turmeric, mix spices, dried mango powder, chaat masala and salt. Also add corn flour and combine all. Form a soft dough adding more corn flour if required than grease your hands with oil and prepare small round patties, roast them with oil on low-medium flame till they turn crisp and golden.
Now place the tikki/patties in a plate top with 2/3 tbsp of yogurt also put on all the topping ingredients. In the end put on sev and some coriander leaves. Serve it.

Dessert

LEMON CAKE

BASIC INGREDIENT (FOR SIX PEOPLE)

4 eggs

200gr of sugar

200gr of fine – ground flour (00)

½ of little envelope of yeast for sweets

1 lemon (peel and juice around 50gr)

INGREDIENT WHIPPED CREAM

200ml of whip cream

1 spoon of powdered sugar

1 spoon of honey

MAKING PROCESS

First prepare the base of the cake: with the electric beater whip the eggs with the sugar, for at least 5 minutes, until you get a clear and soft mixture.
Then add the juice and the peel of the lemon.
Keep on whipping adding little by little the sieved flour and yeast mix well and pour the mixture in a rectangular cake pan with oven paper.
Cook the cake pun in warm static oven at 160° for 15-20 minutes.

Once the base is ready take it out of warm static oven and let it cool down.
Next prepare the cream: with the electric beater whip the refrigerated whipped cream with the powdered sugar until it forms stiff peaks and then add the honey.

Keep on whipping for a few minutes until you get a firm mixture.
Cut the cake in two layers and smear the whipped cream layer, cover with food transparent film and allow to rest in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours before cutting it in small squared pieces.
Serve then with a topping of powdered sugar.

In the end...

Tiramisù

Tiramisù is the one of the most famous Italian cake, and the most common dessert that Italian people eat at the restaurant after the meal. class- mate invited us in Sicily to spend the holiday.
During this holiday she celebrated her birthday
This summer our classmate invited us to spend our holiday in Sicily.
During this holiday she celebrated her birthday, so for this occasion we cooked a traditional cake for her: Tiramisù. Celebrating together that special day for our friend was really beautiful: we had a lot of fun and we talked about different traditional cakes in our countries.
When we have finished to eat the cake she told us that the peculiarity of this cake is that she used to prepare this cake with her mother, but now her mother has gone. That’s why this cake means a lot to her: when we were celebrating her birthday she was very happy and she was thinking that her mother was there to celebrate her birthday too.
She said that it was the best gift that she has ever received and she will always remember this day because we prepared Tiramisù with love and affection for her 18th birthday.

INGREDIENTS

400 g of biscuits ladyfinger
250 g mascarpone cheese
250 g fresh cream
12 cups of coffee
3 eggs yolks
2 cups of milk
3 tablespoons of sugar
Bitter cocoa

PREPARATION

 

Put the sugar and the eggs yolks in a large bowl. 

Beat well until the mixtures is light and creamy

Add mascarpone cheese and beat well

Beat the eggs white until stiff and add them in the mascarpone cream.

Mix gently. 

Quick dip each ladyfinger biscuit in the mixture until they are nicely soaked. 

Cover with the remaining biscuits and spread over the remaining cream.

Dust with the cocoa.

Chill in the fridge for 4-5 hours or better overnight.

GLOSSARY
Ladyfinger biscuits: they are low density, dry, egg-based and sweet biscuits roughly shaped like a large finger
Mascarpone cheese: it is a cream obtained from cheese by the addition of certain substances such as lemon juice
Cream: the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized
Coffee: a dark brown powder with a strong flavor and smell that is made by crushing coffee beans
Eggs yolk: the yellow part of an egg
Milk: this liquid is used by humans for food or as a source for butter, cheeses, yogurt
Sugar: a sweet substance especially from the plants sugar cane and sugar beet, used to make food and drinks sweeter
Cocoa: a powder made from roasted seeds of the cacao

Mattoncini cake

Why the name “Mattoncini”? The cake we propose is made of various icing layers and biscuits: looking at this cake makes you think of the bricks that build a house and when you cuts a slice…well, the similarity stands out!
The last days of summer are over and you can see new autumn colours. It’s the best time to say goodbye to a beautiful season. We are going to propose you a great way to say goodbye to the best time of the year and to our favourite season: let’s prepare a tasty cake! You could enjoy this dessert with your friends and family. It is hard to resist the temptation of a sweet, especially if it is homemade! In fact I remember that when I came to come over my grandparents, the first thing at once I've seen at once was this beautiful cake that reminded me of my childhood.

Preparation time: 30/35 minutes

Recipe for 6 people

- a pack of biscuits.
- 125g whipping cream
- 125g cream.
- 50g cocoa powder.
- half a cup of milk.
- chocolate bar.


Step 1
For the icing, mix the whipping cream and a half cup of milk in a pan and fry so that it becomes creamy, follow the same procedure in another container by adding half a cup of cocoa powder.

Step 2
Place the biscuits in the cooking tray then spread on them one of the glaze to your liking. For the second layer of cake, dunk the cookies in the milk, then put them in the baking tray together with the glaze.

Step 3
Continue until you reach enough layers, then finish decorating the cake with some bars of chocolate.

Glossary
Among: within, amidst (eg. Their music’s popular among college students)
Clear: eg. He poured water into a clear glass
Layers: overlay, tier, coating, encrustation (eg. The chef layered the chocolate frosting of the cake)
Baking tray: tin, container for biscuits, etc.
Icing: frost, frosting, ice, icing the puck, etc (eg. to pipe icing onto a cake)
Dunk: to dip, to plunge (eg. I dunk the cookies in the milk)

The Margherita Cake

Cooking Rockers

We are the Rockers, in our group there are 4 components: Marko, Luca, Giuseppe and Federico! Marko is the Chef who cooked The Margherita Cake, Luca is the Recorder who recorded all the video, Giuseppe is Marko’s helper and Federico is the boss and we decided to make The Margherita Cake as our topic! The Margherita Cake is soft, tasty and easy to do in little time! It was our first cake that we cooked successfully, after making that cake, cooking has become our hobby! We discovered this cake on a Saturday afternoon in summer, we were at Marko's home playing video games and after a few hours of gaming we were hungry, so Luca searched on the internet easy recipes and from a site we discovered the Margherita Cake! Marko already had all the ingredients, so we got started to make it! During the making process we had very funny moments, for example when we divided the egg white from the yolks and Luca threw it onto Federico’s head. Once finished, we tasted it and it was very very good! We were very happy and after that day, every Saturday we meet and cook together tastier and more fantastic food!

To make this cake you need the following ingredients:

- 5 eggs
- 150 g. flour
- 180 g. sugar
- 16 g. baking powder
- 150 g. potato starch
- 90 g. butter
- 1 lemon zest
- 130 ml. milk
- Icing sugar to taste


How to make this cake:
First, separate the egg whites from yolks, then add the sugar with the yolks and finally mix with the mixer for some minutes. After add the butter and amalgamate, sift the flour, the potato starch and the baking powder and slowly add during the mixing. If the mixture results dry add slowly the milk and continue to mixing. Grate the lemon zest in the mixture and stop. Then mix with a silicon shovel the egg white and add it to the mixture delicately. Flour and butter a baking tray and put it inside the mixture and level. Then cook it in a oven at 150°C for 70 minutes, after add the icing sugar to taste.
Then the cake is finished and you can enjoy it!

GLOSSARY
Tasty : a tasty food has a strong and very pleasant flavour
Successfully: having a great result
Hobby: a pleasant activity
Discover: to find information
Flour: finely ground meal derived from wheat, used in baking and cooking
Baking powder: a mixture of powders used to make cakes rise and become light when they are baked
Lemon zest: lemon peel
Icing sugar: it is a type of sugar that is used to make a cake better and good
Yolk: it is the internal part of an egg
Recipe: it is a text where it is written how to make a food and what the necessary ingredients are

Easy Apple Pie

The first time I ate the apple cake I was a child.
My mum used to prepare this cake for breakfast (in particular in autumn) and I’ve always loved it because it is tasty and a simple sweet with poor ingredients (almost just apples!).
She prepares it very well and this is her secret recipe…

INGREDIENTS 

• ½ cup butter, softened 

• 1 cup sugar 

• 2 eggs 

• ¼ cups all-purpose flour 

• 1 teaspoon baking soda 

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

• ¼ teaspoon salt 

• 1 ½ cups shredded peeled apples (about 2 medium apples) 

• 1 Cup chopped walnuts

• Cinnamon ice cream


STEPS
Heat the oven to 175°.
Then, in a large bowl, beat butter and sugar with the electric mixer (on medium speed) until it becomes light and fluffy.
After that, beat the eggs one at the time.
Cut the apples and put them in a large bowl.
Stir in vanilla, flour, baking, soda, cinnamon, salt, apples and walnuts.

Mix the dough and put it in a bowl.
Then, bake the cake for 40/45 minutes or until the thoothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Finally, cool 10 minutes longer the cake and serve warm with ice cream.
I suggest you vanilla or cinnamon ice cream.

GLOSSARY
Recipe: a set of instructions for making or preparing something.
Teaspoon: a small spoon used to stir tea and coffee, eat dessert, etc.
Cinnamon: a sweet-smelling spice made from the inner bark of various Asian trees of the laurel family.
Walnut: an edible meaty nut with a hard, wrinkled shell.
Stir in: o mix.
Toothpick: A small, pointed piece of wood, for removing food particles from between the teeth.

A summer cake

The Taste of Sound
(in collaboration with the famous Directors Facchetti and Tonoli)

At last it's summer!

The first sunny days are coming and you can see new and shining colours in the nature.

It is the best moment for eating a coloured and fresh cake.

You could enjoy this cake with your friends in the park!

Ingredients:

· 500 g mascarpone
· 6 eggs
· 1 can of pineapple
· 400 g Savoiardi
· 5 spoons of sugar

Preparation:

1. Break the eggs and divide egg yolks and egg whites, then put the two elements in different containers

2. Add five spoons of sugar to the egg yolks and amalgamate the mixture

3. Beat the egg whites with the mixer

4. Add the mascarpone, the mixture of egg yolks and sugar, the egg whites and amalgamate all the ingredients

5. Take the slices of pineapple out of their syrup

6. Put the slices of pineapple in the cake pan

7. Put some of the cream made with mascarpone, the mix of egg yalks, whites and sugar on the slices of pineapple

8. Soak the Savoiardi in the syrup of pineapple

9. Put the Savoiardi on the cream and add the last layer of cream on the top

10. Put the cake in the refrigerator for 2 hours

Special thanks to Paolo Facchetti and Adriano Tonoli!

Glossary
Egg yolk: the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen
Egg white: the white part of an egg
Savoiardi: it is a type of biscuit
Syrup: concentrated solution of sugar in water
Beat: to hit repeatedly, for example Beat the egg whites
Amalgamate: to mix, to combine or blend different things together
Soak: to submerge something in a liquid
Beat until still: to whisk the egg whites until they take on a similar appearance to that of the snow
Slice: Portion of limited thickness separated by a mass by cutting, for example a slice of cake, a slice of ham, etc.
Pan: a cooking utensil that you use to cook an egg, for example

Capri cake

The Corso

Why have I chosen this cake?! Because it's the yummiest I've ever eaten!
For chocolate lovers it will be great fun to bake it... and if you are intolerant to some ingredients... don't worry... Capri cake doesn't containt flour!

                                                                                                                                                             Ingredients:

-100 g butter

-85 g icing sugar

-35 g caster sugar

- 125 g almonds

- 2 eggs

- 4 g yeast

- 100 g dark chocolate

                                  - 15 g bitter cocoa powderer

                                           -25 g potato starch

Preparation:

1)Chop the almonds and powdered dark chocolate, pour into a bowl and add flour and baking powder.

2) In a bowl cream the butter with the icing sugar, add the egg yolks one at a time and gradually mix with the powder mixture.

3)Whisk the egg whites with sugar and use soothing gestures to incorporate them into the mixture.

4) Pour the mixture into a buttered and floured mold with the potato starch.

5)Bake at 160 ° for 45 minutes
6) After cooking, let the cake cool in the mold; take out and then let it cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

This recipe was created by: Moira and Simone

Glossary:
Chop: to crumble    

Yolks: the red part of an eggGradually: slowly

Starch: flour
Pour: to put

Mix: to blend

Whisk: to mix
Mold: a plate to give cakes a particular shape