A great salmon tartare is always a pleasure for your palate, as we are a website concerned exclusively with Italian typical products you could correctly wonder what salmon has to deal with Italian food. This time the Italian specialities have the aim to side this great fish from the cold northern sea, to elevate it and create a great contamination. The base of the dish is a fava beans cream, adding the bitter taste to the sweetness of salmon, while the fresh Ricotta - Puglia Sapori e Dintorni seasoned with non treated lemon zest add the creamy texture and freshness with the evergreen fish-lemon taste combination, while the Avola toasted almond give perfect a final crunchy texture to the recipe.

Today we’re in Sicily, here salted ricotta (grated as a seasoning and not to eat alone itself) is a serious matter, as the whole culinary art in the Region. The Caseificio Poma Gioacchino’s one is a product able to bring your recipes to the next level: a small craft cheese producer located in the hinterland of the Province of Trapani, where Gioacchino Poma, a true artisan of the Sicilian cheese making tradition, still realizes by hand all the production passages from manual milking to aging. The final result is a Mature salted sheep ricotta endowed with amazing aromatic and taste intensity, able at the same time to exalt the other ingredients, once you will have tried it you will always want a grated more.

Today here’s a simple and tasty first course with Ligurian influences, from the moment that a short pasta fits better to this recipe we have chosen the maccheroni Mancini. For a creamy and velvety pesto based sauce only three ingredients are needed: Pesto alla genovese - Pexto, a soft paste fresh cheese (caprino, ricotta# or maybe philadelphia) and last the binding key, that is to say the pasta cooking water. Add it gradually to the pesto alls genovese and fresh cheese mixture, mixing until obtaining an homogeneous mixture endowed with the right consistency. For an original Liguria taste touch add the taggiasche olives, finally amalgamate the pasta in the sauce.

The ravioli, one word and an entire world to discover, the origins are uncertain, the interpretations many and different from region to region. Today, talking about tortelli and casoncelli, we are in the province of Brescia, precisely in Gottolengo, a small town historically renowned for the production of this specialty. Right there Tradizioni Padane has planted its roots, a company born from the passion, the knowledge and the research that are handed down from one generation to another. A manual skill that still nowadays, despite the technologic progress, is still at the base of the company production. An artisanal pasta endowed with an add value not only due to the dexterity, but also thanks to the quality of the raw materials both concerning the flours which compose the dough and the many different stuffings from the classic Handmade thin Casoncelli Bresciani - Tradizioni Padane (bread and cheese), Handmade fine Tortellini di Gottolengo - Tradizioni Padane, Handmade fine Casoncelli with ricotta and spinach filling - Tradizioni Padane, Handmade small Tortelli with pumpkin filling - Tradizioni Padane, Tortelli with sea bass tomato filling - Tradizioni Padane and many others.

1867, it is the date the attested by a certificate in the chamber of commerce which marks the beginning of the activity as artisanal pasta producers by the Masciarelli family. A company that has been expanding with the passing of time, still maintaining the artisanal character that stood it out at the birth, testified by the irregular shape of Pastificio Masciarelli products. The choice of fine local durum wheats, the use of water coming from the near Majella Natural Park, the bronze drawing and the slow drying at 40 degrees are at the base of the excellence of this product. These are processes and attentions which are fundamental to maintain the taste, the consistency and the organoleptic qualities intact. The goodness of the product has been rewarded in 2013 by Gambero Rosso, with the award as pasta with the best quality/price ratio. In the picture Fusilli Masciarelli with Ricotta di Bufala (Buffalo Ricotta) - Caseificio Artigianale Esposito, Pachino Cherry Tomatoes and Pistacchi di Sicilia crudi e sgusciati - Azienda Agricola Fastuchera.

If you're looking for a dessert that will amaze and delight your palate and your dining companions's too it's the moment to try the cannolo siciliano. One of the the dessert of the traditional Sicilian pastry par excellence, which is among the most renowned in Italy and throughout the world. It is a crunchy wafer filled at the moment with a creamed made up of fresh sheep ricotta and sugar enriched with some chocolate drops. When you buy an already made cannolo, the wafer isn't anymore crunchy as it typically should be and it comes up to be stringy, devaluing the final result. In our shop you will find every base ingredient separated to prepare your home made cannoli, with the possibility to assemble them at the moment to obtain the best possibile result, that is to say Cialde di Cannoli Grandi - Pennisi la Dolceria Siciliana and Ricotta di pecora - sheep's milk ricotta (available only on Monday and Wednesday) as fresh as possible directly from the southern Italy regions.

It's not always easy to find food with a good taste but remaining light, ricotta can satisfy your request. Historically it was the poor's food, as it comes from boiling the remaining milk after the cheese production, and it owes its proper low fat and high protein content to this characteristic. This products to be at its best needs to be as fresh as possible, for this reason Ricotta - Caseificio Voglia di Latte is produced in Apulia and sent us the same day every week on Monday. It is great eaten naturally, in a pasta but also working it for some dessert recipe will give you a lot of satisfactions.

Pasta, especially in the Mediterranean diet, is one of the main elements, so it is fundamental to choose an high quality and genuine pasta. Pasta Bossolasco is a warranty of the quality of its raw materials, since the company itself cultivates the wheats from which derives the flour of which the final product is made up of. An 100% Made in Italy pasta endowed with extraordinary organoleptic and taste properties. The different formats makes it fit for every recipe, in the photo Spaghetti - Pasta Bossolasco with a three tomatoes sauce on an Sicilian ancient wheats bread cream aromatized with basil, Mature salted sheep ricotta and crispy bread crumbs with chili.

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.

Why eating healthy always should mean tasteless? Of course we don't think so, and we will prove it giving you a recipe that is both healthy and tasty. It's all up to the raw material you use, in fact Tumminia pasta, differently from most of the other varieties of pasta, derives from an ancient Sicilian wheat which not only has a lot of benefits on our body, but is has also an unique and outstanding aroma which will make you fell in love with this product. So here's today's recipe: Semi-wholemeal Tumminia wheat Tagliatelle - Fastuchera with seasonal vegetables. Ingredients: 300g of tagliatelle fastuchera, seasonal vegetables (today we're using aubergines, zucchini, onions, fava beans and cherry tomatoes), Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, Raw Sea Salt Picked by Shoulder - Cuordisale - Salinagrande, black pepper. Firstly cut the vegetables in small pieces, take a pan and make them stir fry together with a little EVO oil and seasoning with salt and black pepper. Then put the tagliatelle in boiling salted water for 3 minutes, then drain them saving a little of the boiling water. Put the tagliatelle in the pan finishing the cooking with the vegetables adding the cooking water (1\2 spoonfuls) for one minute nearly. If you want a touch of extra flavor you can add some mature salted sheep's ricotta.

One of the principles of our company philosophy is always use what nature gives you without forcing it, because eating and cooking seasonal vegetables is fundamental in order to have the healthiest and best tasty diet as possible. So we're giving you a recipe whose protagonist a typical Italian summer vegetable: the courgette flower. Courgette flowers have been cooking as a summer delicacies for centuries, mostly in the central-southern regions of Italy. They are considered one of the first street food of the history, they're cooked in different ways from region to region but all of them were fried. Today we're giving you our recipe for delicious stuffed courgette flowers fried in batter. Ingredients: courgette flowers; 110 g of Organic flour soft wheat type 0; 100 ml of ice-cold Blonde Beer Ale Tavolara - CONTE DE QUIRRA or Sparkling water and a pinch of yeast, 100g of Ricotta di Bufala (Buffalo Ricotta) - Caseificio Artigianale Esposito, some Extra anchovy fillets in oil Extra virgin olive oil - Mare Puro, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, black pepper, Raw Sea Salt Picked by Shoulder - Cuordisale - Salinagrande First let's make the batter: amalgamates in a bowl the flour and the beer\water and yeast using a whisk. For the stuffing cut the anchovy fillets in rough and not too small pieces and mix them with the buffalo ricotta and season with some black pepper and e little EVO oil. Then stuff the courgette flowers, immerge them in the batter, deep fry them in frying oil, when they will be ready dry them and season with some sea salt.

Pasta alla norma is one of the most ancient Italian pasta recipes whose name was given in honor to a Catania (a city of Sicily )the famous comedy writer Vincenzo Bellini during the first play of his famous theatrical play "La Norma". Today we want to write you a recipe of a 100% Sicilian pasta alla norma, using a pasta made of an ancient Sicilian durum wheat variety called Tumminia cultivated and processed in Alcamo (a village on the western side of Sicily). the result is a semi-whole pasta endowed with an unique aroma and a lot of beneficial organoleptic properties. Ingredients: 400g of Timilia Biological Penne Rigate - Az. Agricola Biologica Adamo; 500g tomato sauce ( you can add cherry tomatoes if you want some extra freshness), mature slated sheep's ricotta, 2 aubergines, 2 cloves of red garlic from Nubia and basil, Sicilian extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper. First of all you have to wash aubergines and cut them into slices, cover them with cooking salt, put on them a weight an make them dry for one hour at least, with this process they will loose all the water in excess and they won't absorb too much oil. Then wash them from the salt, cut them into cubes and you can decide whether to deep fry them (original recipe) or put them in a pan with some oil (lighter). When aubergines will be cooked ad the sauce to them putting on this sauce the entire garlic clove (that you will take out after the sauce will have acquired its flavour) and make it cook until it has reached the right consistency. During the sauce cooking boil the pasta until its is "al dente" (control the minutes of cooking on the package), dry it and make it cook with the sauce to amalgamate it. At the end add some mature salted sheep' ricotta (be generous) and the remaining leaves of fresh basil.

Solo Sole has the power to put the true essence and tastes of Sicily in a glass can. The company is family-run and they pass down the traditional recipes through generations. The Sugo alla Norma is one of the most famous and traditional sauce of Sicily containing aubergines, tomato pieces, EVOO oil, garlic, salt and sugar. When you mix it with your pasta dish add a sprinkle of Mature salted sheep ricotta.

If you're searching for a new plus in your pasta dishes the Mature salted sheep's ricotta is suit for you. it is an 100% hand made product by Caseificio Poma, it will give your recipes a sprint and a unique salty shade.