Showing posts with label italian food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label italian food. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Famous and Patriotic Italian Pizza: - Margarita Pizza

It is said that every good things in world exit due to some good reason. This exact happens for Margarita pizza. Margarita pizza for rest of world and Margherita pizza for Italian also has exciting reason behind it. Pizza was first baked by Chef Raffaelle Esposito in 1899 in the honour of Queen Margherita Teresa Giovanni of Italy, on the visit of Naples to escape a cholera epidemic in the north of Italy. Chef follow the colors of Italian flag to design the pizza, so he choose Mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil for red, white and green colors of flag. It is said that Queen Margherita liked pizza so much that she wrote thank letter to Raffaelle Esposito. Later Esposito decide to name the pizza after Queen Margerita.

Margarita Pizza is world famous for its delicious and unique taste. It is same taste which we have 100 and more than year earlier. You can also have this taste in your home with simple recipe. Don’t worry about how to prepare and where is a recipe. We are here to help.


Recipe of Margarita Pizza:-

Ingredients:
  1. 1 tsp instant yeast
  2. 3¼ cups of flour
  3. ½ tbsp salt
  4. 1 cup warm water
  5. 1 cup tomatoes very ripe plum tomatoes
  6. 400g Mozzarella cheese
  7. 16 fresh basil leaves
  8. 1 clove garlic, crushed and finely chopped
  9. Extra-virgin olive oil
Preparation:
Time – 45 Minutes
  1. Put the flour, yeast and salt into a food processor and with the motor running add warm water to make soft dough that sticks together (about 1¼ cups).
  2. Keep the processing working for about 45 seconds, adding a little water if the mixture is too dry or a little flour if it’s a bit sticky.
  3. Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled bowl, preferably the same temperature as the dough. Shape it into a ball and cover the bowl with a clean t-towel or cling film and leave it to rise for about an hour at room temperature.
  4. Preheat the oven to its highest temperature.
  5. Divide the dough into 4 pieces and shape into balls, leave on a floured work surface for another 15 minutes.
  6. Now you can use your hand or a rolling pin and roll the balls out into 25cm circles leaving the edges slightly higher than the center. It’s a good idea to do this on the tray or flat that you’ll be baking in on.
  7. Cover the top gently with olive oil, if you press too hard you’ll make the dough stick to the tin and it may burn.
  8. Add the ¼ cup tomatoes spreading them out gently and evenly with the back of a spoon.
  9. Season with salt and cover with 100g mozzarella cheese and arrange four basil leaves on the top.
  10. Put in the preheated oven and cook for about 5 minutes until the top is crispy and the mozzarella is bubbling.

Posarelli Villas provide villas, apartments and castles for rental across Italy. We would also like to help our present and future clients who are going to visit Italy. Our main aim is to help them with A to Z information about their requirements during their holidays in Italy.


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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Delicious Italian Christmas Recipe – Risotto

Hello, here we are again as always with something new, innovative and exciting. Today we are presenting you a recipe for “Risotto” a famous Italian dish for Christmas. This is just a small hint for you people to know how exciting a Christmas in Italy is.

"Merry Christmas To All"
Italian Christmas Recipe
“Christmas”, a day of holy faith, joy, happiness, pray to the god in church for giving us nice place to live. Christmas is only festival which celebrate in the whole world. And from this world one is Italy, famous for its traditional food, lifestyle, heritage places and festival celebration. The Christmas season in Italy goes for three weeks, but main celebration start from 8 days before. In these days People of Italy play instruments, sing songs and one more thing, they cook some delicious traditional Italian food. On Christmas they prepare some special dishes which are prepared since last many years as an Italian tradition. One of them is Risotto a typical Christmas Eve dish. Name contains Risotto but it is not cooked according to Risotto method but it combines cheese with fish. This dish is easy to cook but take long time. On this Christmas, l think you decide or not, just change your plan and surprise everybody by making Risotto de la “Visilia”. Do not worry about how to prepare and where is a recipe. We are also here to help.

 Delicious Italian christmas dish












Ingredients:


1. 3/4 pound firm fish fillets (such as redfish, wolffish, red snapper, goby, whiting, perch, or scup)
2. 2/3 cup dried borlotti, pinto, or Roman (about 6 ounces) beans, picked over, soaked in water to cover for several hours, and drained
3. One onion, very finely cut
4. Six tablespoons unsalted butter
5. One celery stalk, very finely chopped
6. One carrot, which peeled and very finely chopped
7. 1/2 cups Arborio rice
8. 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
9. Two garlic cloves, crushed
10. One pound common eel (Anguilla anguilla), skinned and cut into 1-inch pieces
11. Six cups of water
12. Salt according to our taste.

Preparation:
Time – 2 hours

Step1 - Put the drained beans in a medium-size saucepan and cover by several inches with lightly salted cold water. Cook the beans over medium heat until soft but not breaking apart, about 1 and 1/2 hours, but check before that time. Pass half the beans through a food mill or pulse in short bursts in a food processor in and reserve. Set aside the remaining beans.

Step2 - In a large casserole or heavy saucepan, melt half the butter, then cook the onion, celery, and carrot over a medium heat for 6 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the garlic, eel, fish, water, and salt and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium and cook until the fish can flake easily, about 30 minutes (but don't flake the fish; keep them whole).

Step3 - Strain the broth through a fine-mesh strainer and return one quart of it to the casserole or saucepan. Stir in the pureed beans and mix well. Remove the fish and eel from the strainer and reserve, keeping warm, to serve as a second course.

Step4 - Bring the broth to a boil over medium-high heat and add the rice. Cook and uncovered it, until the rice is soft, about 20 minutes. Stir in the remaining butter, remaining beans and the cheese.

Now hot, delicious, and good looking Risotto is ready to serve. To make something new and of different taste on Christmas is like surprise for every one. And get good respond after tasting it, is great Christmas gift.




Posarelli Villas provide
villas, apartments and castles for rental across Italy. We would also like to help our present and future clients who are going to visit Italy. Our main aim is to help them with A to Z information about their requirements during their holidays in Italy.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Traditional Italian Food

When you are searching about the traditional and delicious food in the world, your search will finish on Italy. The Country has great Roman civilization and the renaissance period. Culture and art of the Italy is totally built on the Roman Empire which rule it for many years and this time period also brings revolution in the Italian food. The Italian food which we are eating today is comes from many years ago with continuous change. These changes add more flavors and variety in food of Italy.

traditonal italian food
We call Italian food as traditional food because it has been consumed locally and regionally for an extensive period of time. It is difficult to say about national food because Italy is big country which has long coastal area, plans and mountain regions. Each region has its own particular types of food although there are some stable foods which are some how eaten across Italy. We have divided traditional Italian food courts in three regions; they are north, central, and south region.

Northern Region: Northern Italian region which has Veneto, Emilia Romagna, and Liguria all have very different gastronomy. The traditional food is generally characterized with less use of olive oil, tomato, and pasta but now days this is of no means. This region has the countries highest living standard and diverse selection of foods and menus; for example, Bologna is famous for its Ragu, Pasta, Gerona’s noodles and pesto with the great veal. Risottos of Milan, soft shelled crabs and black rice from Venice. Turin for white truffles and cheese fondues. Fonduta is popular dish of Piedmont. There is a meat dish called Bollito Misto which is also eaten in this region. There are some more dishes that are popular in this region they are Polenta, Potato Gnocchi, Prosciutto, Spezzatino alla Pusterese, Lasagna al Papavero, Suf, Buseca, Trofie al pesto, etc.

italian foodCentral Region: Central Italian region is world famous for cheeses, savory cured meats and rich tomato sauces grace and also the seafood because of two side coastal area. Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Abruzzi, and Lazio are the main part of central region. Tuscany and the Marches make unique unsalted bread that is not eaten anywhere else in Italy. There main food is base on pasta and bread. Macaroni is popular in Abruzzi whereas Spaghetti and Rigatoni is more popular in Umbria. Egg Fettuccini is famous in Rome. Porchetta, vincigrassi, prosciutto, castagnaccio, prosciutto, strozzapreti, are some more used food dishes of this region.

Southern Region: Southern region produced most celebrated foods and wines from the ancient world. The sea is used to its fullest extent with all manner of seafood enjoyed from tuna to anchovies. The first pastas were made in the south, but they were preceded by the popular tomato, focaccia and pizza. Campania is also the birthplace of the modern Pizza. Cheese like Peccorino, Ricotta, caciocavallo are used in basic diet. Pizza siciliana, Pasta Puttanesca, Parmigiana di Melanzane, zuppa di vongole, Chitarra, Peperoncino, Brodetto, Maccheroni al forno, calzone are famous food variety of south.

famous italian dishes
We can say that Italy is land of traditional food in all over the Europe. It is also known as wine basket of the world. Now day’s traditional Italian food is available in every part of the world and consumed in large number.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Real Taste of Italian Food at Exotic Restaurants

Even thinking of Italian food makes our mouths water, it presents us the yummiest dishes from around the globe. Its can be considered impossible to pen down Italian food, as every city and town have their own dishes and specialties which gets to a never ending list. Here we are making a sincere attempt to provide you with not all the information but the useful information about some very famous food courts. We are providing you with some of the best eateries across Italy and a bit of their history. Where you can help yourself with healthy and hygienic food after all we care for our dear readers.

Italian Food

Restaurants:-


1. Barone’s Famous Italian restaurant – Established in 1945 this was the first restaurant to provide pizza’s in Southern California. Opens daily at 11:00 am and provides lunch Monday-Friday 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, dinner is served 7 days a week Monday-Thursday till 10:00 PM and till midnight on Friday and Saturday on Sunday’s you can have it till 9:00 PM. Situated at the following address

Some of their specialties are:-

Famous Stuffed Mushrooms
Jumbo size mushrooms filled with lobster, shrimp and crabmeat, topped with cheddar cheese and bearnaise sauce.
Our Famous New York Pepper Steak
Pounded with cracked pepper, charbroiled topped with sauteed mushrooms, green onions and bacon bits in brandy sauce.
Linguine Pescatore
Lobster, Shrimp and Crab, sauted lightly in butter, white wine, green onion and mushrooms, adding crushed tomato, clam juice, fresh garlic, spices and herbs.

New Offerings:-

Choose from Following:-

  • Breast of Chicken - $15.95
  • Shrimp - $19.95


Each entree is baked with fresh eggplant, roasted red bell peppers, fresh tomato, fresh garlic, olive oil, basil, a touch of oregano, and romano cheese. Served with cheese ravioli. (Soup or Salad $2.00 extra).

Located at:- 13726 Oxnard Street (near the corner of Woodman) Valley Glen, CA 91401 (Formerly Matterhorn Chef) - (818) 782-6004


Famous Italian Eateries


2. Sal’s Famous Italian restaurant – This is a place for you if you looking for tasty food, casual atmosphere and friendly service, and the big thing is all this without much of a dent in your pocket.

Top Sentiments among Sal's Famous Italian Kitchen Reviewers

  • Excellent wine selection
  • Yummy chicken pesto pasta
  • Good Italian meal
  • Authentic Italian Cooking
  • Best Italian dish
  • Yummy ciabatta bread
  • Great Butternut Squash Ravioli
  • Tasty desserts
  • Great roasted beet salad

It seems with so many top comments from reviewers you are really going to enjoy this place.

Located at:- 2731 N Killingsworth
St Portland, OR 97217



Italian Restaurants3. Grazie Italian Eatery – Its one of the award winning restaurant in bloomington its has a beautiful location at Bloomington square close to the Indiana University campus, residence halls, retail and financial institutions, sororities and fraternities, art galleries, the Farmer's market, festivals, fairs and parades. This gives you a chance to help yourself with some site seeing and shopping and then relish the delicious food at Grazie. It provides good and convenient parking facilities. The food is made with traditional Italian methods so that you can have that pure Italian taste. Lunch and dinner with a fantastic children's menu are offered 7 days a week. When dinning at Grazie, you have your choice of fresh garden salad or home made soup and you always get fresh baked homemade focaccia bread with each entry. Provides outdoor patio for you to dine in attractive and peaceful surroundings, private dining rooms for meetings and events. Offers variety of local, domestic and imported beers and a wine list featuring over 250 selections, or you can choose from enticing list of martini. On Wednesday and Sunday’s
You can enjoy bottles of wine at half-price.

Located at:- 106 West 6th Street,
Bloomington, IN
(812) 323 0303
info@grazieitalianeatery.com

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