The balance between flavors and the high quality products are the means through which bringing your dishes at high levels. Apparently simple recipes can hide pleasant surprises too, stimulating mind and palate, as it happens for this risotto with anchovies, toasted hazelnuts and Sicilian lemon zest. The base is the Baldo Rice Principato di Lucedio, by an organic rice producer and the most ancient in Italy too, the Sicilian anchovy filets - La Bottarga di Tonno Group, a company located in the province of Trapani that brings the tastes of the Sicilian sea directly on your table. The Toasted and Shelled Hazelnuts - Nama Mandorle are from Siracusa, precisely Avola, a place where only few people know that not only almonds grow naturally, the creaming is made with the Butter - Beppino Occelli, and finally zest from non treated Sicilian lemons from Ribera. A risotto all’onda (fairy fluidi texture), to which the hazelnuts give crunchiness, while the strong and sapid taste of the anchovies meets the freshness of the lemon zest, closing the circle perfectly.

The orecchiette are the Apulia pasta par excellence, and who could be a better orecchiette producer than Benedetto Cavalieri? In fact not only Cavalieri is a high quality pasta producers well known all over the gastronomic world, it is really an Apulia producers, in fact its headquarters are in Lecce. The rigorous selection of the raw materials grown in the hills between Apulia and Basilicata and the use of the delicate method for the pasta production have make the final product unique and delicious. Today we're giving you a recipe that includes this particular kind of pasta: Orecchiette with dried tomatoes, taggiasche olives and buffalo ricotta cream. Ingredients: Orecchiette Cavalieri, Under the Sicilian sun dried tomatoes, Olive taggiasche denocciolate - Pexto, Ricotta di Bufala (Buffalo Ricotta) - Caseificio Artigianale Esposito, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, Raw Sea Salt Picked by Shoulder - Cuordisale - Salinagrande, Sicilian lemons Verdelli. Firstly put the orecchiette in boiling salted water and look at the cooking time on the package. Meanwhile in a pan with a little EVO oil make the dried tomato and olive cook for 1\2 minutes. Take a bowl putting the ricotta in, season it with some grated lemon zest and then blend it adding a little of milk. When the orecchiette will be ready, drain them. Put the buffalo ricotta cream at the base of a soup plate, then the orecchiette and finally the dried tomatoes and olives.