How to make candied ginger

Candied ginger recipe

Candied ginger

500 g fresh ginger and peeled
500 g brown sugar or granulated
water

Peel the ginger with a potato peeler or with the tip of a spoon.

Cut into slices or cubes

Boil ginger for 20-30 minutes, until it is tender.

Put the ginger in a saucepan, cover with water, add sugar and cook slowly, stirring, especially at the end when the water will be absorbed almost completely.

Spread the candied ginger in a sheet of baking paper and let cool.

Mix with other brown sugar.

NB The water from the first boiling, is an excellent anti-inflammatory tea, then you can use either hot or cold, perhaps adding a little honey.

Vegan quiche with potatoes and cabbage

With pleasure I’am publishing today a recipe of a dear friend (Sandra Baronchelli).

It was a long time that I noticed her healthy recipes

Today when I saw her vegan quiche with potatoes and cabbage, I asked for permission to publish it in pescenudo.it

Sandra has promptly sent me her recipe and so, after a few hours from having his baked pie, the recipe is available to everyone who will try to imitate it.

Vegan quiche with potatoes and cabbage

Vegan quiche with potatoes and cabbage

ingredients:

180 g 0 soft wheat flour milled stone,

70 g Buckwheat flour

100 ml water

35 ml extra virgin olive oil

½ teaspoon baking soda

1 dash white wine

1 teaspoon coarse wholemeal Cervia salt freshly ground

1/4 Cabbage

3 medium potatoes

Vinegar

Optional:

vegetable cream and 2 eggs (for a vegan version)

For the stuffing:

In a pan simmer 10 min cabbage coarsely chopped with a little ‘extra virgin olive oil, a dash of vinegar, a little water and salt to taste.

In another pot same procedure for potatoes sliced, (not cook them too much because then they’re going in the oven).

For the base:

Mix the flour milled wheat stone, Buckwheat flour, water, olive oil, baking soda, a dash of white wine and the big wheel Cervia salt freshly ground.

Making the dough rest for half an hour in the refrigerator.

With a rolling pin, roll out the dough. Lay it on a sheet of paper from the oven and with the wheel to cut a 32 cm diameter disc about. Lift the baking paper and place it on the cake of 26 cm in diameter. Adhere the base to the edges and prick with a fork.

Stuffed with potato and cabbage filling. For those who want more traditional you can add vegetable cream or if you want to make vegetarian 2 eggs.

Close the edges of the dough slightly inside.

Bake in a preheated oven at 200ºC for 30 minutes.

Let cool, unmold and serve.

Sandra: “for the success of each dish is important that the products are good, healthy and natural, in that flour, oil … must be purchased directly from producers or from trusted suppliers!”

Strawberry gel

With this recipe you will get a smooth and shiny strawberry gel.
Ingredients:
400 g of fresh ripe strawberries pulp
10 g lemon juice
5 g agar
Pour half of the strawberry pulp into a pan and blend with the agar. Bring to 85ºC; add the remaining strawberry pulp and lemon juice.

Stir and cool quickly.
Pass the gelatine through a sieve and keep in the fridge.
Use the gel to garnish sweets, flavor yoghurt and cakes.

Vegetable quiche recipe

The quiche or vegetable pie is ideal as a snack or appetizer. The recipe is simple and quick to prepare and can be customized to fantasy.

Ingredients for one 24 cm cake tin:
1 box of puff pastry (you can even do it becomes more challenging) or pie crust
250 g vegetables (can be fine broccoli, zucchini, onion, leeks, ….)
2 eggs
3 dl cream or milk
50 g Parmesan or other cheese
salt
pepper and spices to taste

Line a baking pan of 24 cm in diameter with the dough, making it adhere to the walls and pierce it with a fork.
Wash vegetables. In this case, we have used broccoli, cut and steamed; for other vegetables like zucchini, onion … after being sliced thinly, you have to toss in a pan with a little oil, (the onion the better way is to braise it on low heat).
In a bowl, beat the eggs with the cream, grated cheese, salt and spices, then add the vegetables.
Pour into the pan, cut the excess dough and bake in the oven at 210ºC for about 20 minutes.
Allow to cool and serve.

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.