Granola. How to make it at home

Granola is perfect for a good breakfast, a snack. Can be served with yogurt, milk, soy milk …., with the addition of fresh fruit, chopped chocolate . It is an evolution of muesli.
The recipe for the granola is simple. It can be prepared in quantity and store in a closed container for several days.

ricetta granola

Ingredients:
300 g oatmeal
Honey 100 g
100 g maple syrup
100 g brown sugar Muscovado or Demerara
100 ml water
100 g peeled almonds and chopped
100 g peeled hazelnuts (I used Noccio Cialda)
20 ml noccioolio (hazelnut oil)
4 g salt

Toast the oats in the oven at 180°C  for about 10 minutes, stirring often.
In a large saucepan and capacious put honey, maple syrup, sugar and water. Melt, simmer and withdraw slightly.
Let it cool down.
Add oats and salt and mix well.
Spread the mixture in one or more baking sheets lined with baking paper.
Place in oven for 15 minutes at 160˚C.
Combine also noccioolio, almonds, hazelnuts and put in oven for about 10 minutes.
Allow to cool and break up the granola.
The ingredients are approximate and can be customized by adding dried fruit of every kind. At the end you can add raisins, dark chocolate, dates, dried figs, goji berries …

granola

Raw zucchini spaghetti, pumpkin seed pesto, cherry tomatoes and goji

Spaghetti, yes, but made with zucchini! Fresh, tasty, healthy and easy to make!

spaghetti di verdura

 

Ingredients for 4 people:

4 zucchini clear fresh and boiled
20 cherry tomatoes
50 g pumpkin seeds
20 basil leaves
20 g goji berries
extra virgin olive oil
flax seeds
salt

First, prepare the pesto. Blend first pumpkin seeds. In a cold blender container , put the basil (keep aside 4 bunches for garnish) and cover with cold extra virgin olive oil . Add the pumpkin seeds and blend . Season with salt.

Take the zucchini, wash and with the special sharpener create spaghetti zucchini. Put them in a large bowl. Add the cherry tomatoes, washed and cut in half, the goji berries and season with salt and extra virgin olive oil

Divide the Zucchini spaghetti on 4 plates zucchini. Pour the pesto pumpkin seeds. Sprinkle flax seeds previously crushed in a mortar.

Complete with a few leaves of basil.

I use this:

Recipe of vegan potato dumplings.

Women, they arrived super-dumplings!
A Recipe for Making gnocchi with solo potatoes and flour, without eggs.


super gnocchi

Serves 4:
600 g old potatoes, which contain more starch and less water than fresh ones.
250 g flour 00
nutmeg
salt

Wash the potatoes and cook with zest by putting them in cold water with plenty of salt and bring to simmer until they are cooked through.
Peel the potatoes and mash with potato masher appropriate. Perfumed with nutmeg and season with salt. quickly mix with the flour.
Formed by rolling a little ‘time the dough with your hands, form the cylinder and cut the gnocchi the size you want.
To roll the dumplings one by one on the tip of a fork, applying light pressure with your thumb.
At this point the potato gnocchi are ready to be cooked in boiling salted water.

Vegan figs tart

Ornella, Lorenzo’s sister (Pappafico Cervia) surprised us once again with this beautiful figs tart, so we asked her all the secrets how to prepare it.

This recipe is perfect for that gluttons, even for vegans, since the pastry is made without butter and no eggs.

crostata vegan

We start from figs:
Wash the figs and remove the maximum possible amount of skin, to avoid that releases the flavor of grass.
Cut the figs into pieces, put them in a pan, cover with sugar, (1/5 of the weight of the fruit), add half a vanilla bean and a few drops of lemon.
Cook for about 30 minutes.
For the pastry vegan: mix flour, a little bit of sugar, baking powder with oil Corn, sweet white wine or fruit juice.
Let stand, then roll out with a rolling pin.
Obtain the round base for covering the pan and the strips to be used later.
Cover the base of the tart with a uniform layer of fig jam and form a grid on the surface with strips of pastry. Enter some almonds on the jam.
Bake the tart in a preheated oven at 170 ° C for about 20 minutes. Let cool and unmold.

May be you are interested in this article: Butter and substitutes
Ornella Thanks for this super vegan tart !!!

Rice Chips

Here’s how made the chips of rice!
chips

Ingredients:
100 g rice
400 g water
5 g salt
saffron
sunflower oil for frying.

Cook the rice in water without salt, until it is well-cooked and has absorbed all the water.
Blend, add saffron powder (optional).
Spread in Silpat thickness of 1 / 1.5 mm and dry in the dryer at 50 degrees C.
Fry pieces to 190 °C.

Mix the salt with a grinder
Season with salt.