My Italian Cuisine

 The content and pictures of this post are copyright registered & protected ©myitaliancuisine When we say Brioche we say France...I've tried all kind of brioches recipes and for me the best brioche is this one... and it comes from Germany, it's the Buchteln brioche, also called Butchy or Buchty. It's the most soft, moist, delicious brioche I have ever tasted and baked. It's also very light, no butter only heavy cream (crème fraîche épaisse, in french). The Buchteln brioche is very easy to prepare if you have a bread machine. Try it... you will fall in love with this recipe! It's perfect for breakfast or for your afternoon tea time, you can fill it with a small piece of dark chocolate or jam if you like, kids will love it!  Ingredients: 500gr bread flour 20gr fresh yeast or 10 dried 25cl of heavy cream (crème fraîche épaisse) 80gr sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 eggs + milk (quatity of milk depends on your eggs weight) = total 200gr...

 The content and pictures of this post are copyright registered & protected ©myitaliancuisine Happy Easter Monday to everybody! Enjoy your outdoor picnic with this new recipe! The Torta Pasqualina is an Italian traditional and very savoury pie, made with silverbeet (also called swiss chard), lots of eggs and ricotta. This pie, a specialty from the ligurian cuisine, is commonly served cold during the traditional Italian Easter Monday picnic.  t's a very rich pie, you need 13 eggs just for the the filling!  In my version I used a commn puff pastry to avoid the long and difficult preparation of the traditional dough (rolled in several layers).You can also replace silver beet with spinach or cicory... some recipe use artichokes...  The preparation is nothig difficult but istruction must be carefully followed in order to reach a good final result. The Pasqualina pie is also a pleasure for your eyes, with the yellow, white and green colours. To mak...

  The content and pictures of this post are copyright registered & protected ©myitaliancuisine Hello and Happy Easter to everybody! New year new version of my Easter bread: Easter rolls with coloured eggs! The sun  is shining and  it's time to dress our tables with garden colours.  Just to give a funny touch to my Easter table this time I shaped two different breads: a flower and a kind of bunny..... the dough is always the same (see recipe here ), then just shaped it differently ;) Makes about 12 bread rolls Ingredients: 500 gr Flour (55 type or another strong bread flour mix) 160ml water 40ml Extra Virgin Olive Oil 2 Wipped Eggs 1 teaspoon dried yeast 1 Tbs Sugar 1 Tbs Salt 1 Wipped Egg (for glazing) 2 Tbs Sesame Seeds (for decoration) 2 Tbs Poppy seeds or other(for decoration) Method : Place the ingredients in the bread machine (dough program) or in a food processor, or Kitchenaid, mix, let it rise for 2 hours. After 2 hours, ...

 The content and pictures of this post are copyright registered & protected ©myitaliancuisine The Pastiera is the most famous Neapolitan Easter traditional pastry. Prepared since centuries, in the region of Campania almost every family own his special Pastiera recipe. It's a pie crust with a filling of boiled grains (grano cotto), milk, ricotta, candied fruits (cedro, zucca e arancia candita), orange blossoms water (acqua di fiori d'arancio). The  Pastiera is so famous to deserve its own website: www.pastiera.com, I have got Pastiera from the Italian bakeries since I was a child.... and now I've finally baked it myself, a few times, trying to get the good recipe.... finally I think I got it! This  is my own Pstiera recipe: the crust is the one I use for crust pies in general, the traditional recipe uses lard I prefer to use butter, you can use what you like. The canned cooked grains are a must, you will normally find it in the italian grocery stores, as w...