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The content and pictures of this post are copyright registered & protected ©myitaliancuisine Another Easter recipe! In Italy we use to eat these brioches on Easter morning for the traditional Easter breakfast: "la colazione di Pasqua". They are easy to prepare you can even make them with your kids, they will have fun shaping the bunnies and coloring the eggs. In my case I have just used a natural colorant, the onion peels, to get the red/brown, but you can use a variety of other natural coloring methods and suggestions, visit this web page for more info on natural egg coloring. The dough is the classic French brioche dough that you can find in my older French braided brioche post here . The shaping is very simple, just place a boiled egg in the middle of a rolled piece of dough and shape the bunny, like a simple braid... Makes 6 small brioches Ingredients: For the brioche dough see ingredients and method here You need 1 dose of dough or more if you want to p...

 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...

 The content and pictures of this post are copyright registered & protected ©myitaliancuisine Happy Easter to everybody! To celebrate I want to propose a fantastic soft bread recipe, the Italian Ester Bread with coloured eggs: Il pane di Pasqua or Pizza di Pasqua. I use to make it for the Italian "Pranzo di Pasqua" the traditional Ester family lunch on the Ester Sunday. You can use coloured eggs or normal boiled eggs. The dough is the same I use for the Poppy Seeds and Sesame Bread you need one dose for one Easter bread. Enjoy preparing this funny bread and share it with your family and friends! Easter bread with coloured eggs ;) .... and with normal eggs ;) Ingredients for 1 bread: 1 dose of dough for Poppy Seeds and Sesame Bread 6 coloured boiled eggs (or boiled normal eggs) 1 beaten egg for the glaze 1 tbs milk 2 tbs sesam seeds Instructions: Prepare your dough as for the Poppy Seeds and Sesame Bread. Once ready, preheat the oven on ...