Weekend Case: preparing simple and beautiful dinner in Italy

Day off - the best time for culinary experiments. It is suggested that next Saturday the Italian cuisine. With these simple but atmospheric and aesthetic dishes you can cook a full dinner or a sumptuous dinner.

The Tuscan salad with tuna and white bean

This is a hearty and healthy salad of Mediterranean cuisine. Cook it easy, and you can find the ingredients at the local supermarket.

Ingredients:

• Arugula, spinach or other favorite herbs;
• 1 can of canned white beans;
• 1 can of canned tuna;
• 8 pcs. cherry tomatoes;
• 1/2 cans of olives;
• 1 head red onion;
• 1/2 lemon;
• 100 g. feta cheese;
• olive oil;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation: we shall cut onions into thin rings. Slay water and divide it into small pieces with tuna. Cherry tomatoes and olives will cut in half.

Combine all ingredients (except lemon), seasoning spices, olive oil and sprinkle with lemon juice.

Caprese Salad

Classic Italian appetizer that can be prepared in minutes. We took the traditional recipe, but you can add to his favorite foods: arugula, pine nuts, pesto, eggplant or zucchini.

Ingredients:

• 2 large tomatoes;
• 8 cherry tomatoes;
• Mozzarella cheese ball;
• fresh basil leaves to taste;
• olives or olives;
• olive oil;
• salt.

Preparation: Large tomato and mozzarella we shall cut slices, cherry tomatoes - half. Lay them on a plate, alternating, or on opposite sides.

Sprinkle snack olives or olives and basil leaves. Salt and drizzle with olive oil.

Lasagna with spinach and cheese sauce

Instead of bolognese sauce, which is commonly used in Italian lasagna, pesto is involved here. It can make itself or buy in the store. To make a lasagna special culinary skill is not required: just the right mix the sauce and put it with sheets of noodles.

Ingredients:

• 400 g. mushrooms, oyster mushrooms or mushrooms fit;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano;
• 1/4 cup flour;
• 2 glasses of milk;
• 2 cups vegetable broth;
• 2 cup grated Parmesan cheese;
• 1 package cream cheese ricotta;
• 300 g. spinach;
• 50 g. pesto sauce;
• 1 pack of noodles for lasagna;
• olive oil, salt, pepper.

Preparation:

1) Mushrooms arbitrary shall cut slices and browned in a pan until golden brown. After that, put them on a plate and set aside.

2) Turn to your sauce. Garlic finely we will cut or chop on a grater and place on heated oiled pan with oregano, salt and pepper. Fry for half a minute and add the flour. Fire away for about a minute and pour into the pan with milk and broth. Mix well and bring to a boil. 3) Remove the soup from the heat, put in his half of the package of ricotta with half the grated parmesan and well prevented that the cheese is completely melted and the sauce is smooth.

4) In a medium bowl mix the remains of ricotta with spinach and pesto sauce.

5) Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Brush the baking dish with olive oil. Lay it 1/4 of the cheese sauce. Top - 3-4 leaves of noodles for lasagna. Next - 1/2 of ricotta mixture with spinach and pesto; 1/4 cheese sauce and mushrooms. Cover with 3-4 sheets of lasagna. Make as many layers as enough ingredients. The last layer of lasagna zaley residues cheese sauce and Parmesan sprinkle remaining. Bake for 45 minutes. Before serving dish let stand for about 10 minutes.

Pizza with pear and Gorgonzola cheese

In this pizza is the main ingredient, course, - pear. Together with the raw original and it forms a fresh mix. Do not worry, the dish will be in a sweet dessert, pears there is not much, only a few thin slices.

Ingredients:

• pizza dough;
• 1/4 cups flour;
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese;
• 1/2 cup grated cheese gorgonzola;
• 1 pear;
• 3 tablespoons olive oil;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• a small handful of arugula.

Preparation: Garlic chop, mix with olive oil, set aside and loans dough.

Lay out the dough on a floured surface. Shape it into a ball, then roll it out well. Brush the surface of the dough with olive oil and garlic. Lay it grated mozzarella, pear, cut into thin slices, Gorgonzola and arugula.

Put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake 15-20 minutes, until the dough is covered with a crust, and cheese is slightly brown.

Cannoli

This is a traditional Sicilian recipe - tubes of crispy dough with ricotta cheese filling with different ingredients: syrups, chocolate, fresh fruit or candied fruit. Cook it is not difficult even for those who are not good at baking. It is important to use it in the recipe wine marsala - it only gives the dish a special flavor and taste.

Ingredients:

• 100 ml. Marsala;
• 300g. flour;
• 1 teaspoon of cocoa powder;
• 30 gr. butter;
• 5 ml. white wine vinegar;
• 1 egg;
• 800 g. ricotta cheese;
• 200g. Sahara;
• pinch of salt;
• pinch of ground cinnamon;
• candied fruit, chocolate, berries or almonds for the filling;
• oil.

Preparation: 1) Sift the flour, eruption in a deep container. Add to it the cocoa, sugar, salt and mix everything well to avoid lumps.

2) Add the flour to the butter, vinegar, egg and wine. Mix all the blender for about 5 minutes, until the mixture is smooth.

3) Carefully dough sweep arms will form it into a ball, covered with foil and store it in the refrigerator for 1 hr. 4) until the dough comes, loan filling. Wipe the ricotta through a sieve, add to it 200 grams of sugar, cinnamon and other ingredients: berries, nuts, candied fruit, and stir well.

5) Get the dough from the refrigerator and proceeded to the preparation of the tubes. Tear off small pieces, formed from these balls and rolled up the oval. In the middle of the oval luggage special confectionery pipe or other object, the appropriate form. Wrap one end of the tube to the juicy, promazh egg yolk, slightly diluted with water. Wrap a second edge and stick it to the first in the middle. Cutting the dough on both sides of the tube and leave on for 5-10 minutes, so that it gelled.

6) Heat the iron in a deep container vegetable oil - it will you dip tube. Each tube is lowered into the boiling oil and wait a couple of minutes. Spread ready tubes on a napkin so that it absorbed the excess oil.

7) Using a pastry bag fill tube filling. Sprinkle top with powdered sugar before serving.