From appetizer to dessert: recipes for cheese lovers
Ahh, cheese, the undisputed star of our tables! Genuine and nutritious food, it is versatile, tasty and, let's face it, a must on our tables! Versatility is precisely the key to cheese, capable of flavoring an appetizer, enriching a first course, being an excellent second course or making a dessert creamy and irresistible. Here are some ideas for a menu that will make you say cheeeeese!
Appetizers
Quiche recipe without shortcrust pastry with ham and cheese
The best way to enjoy cheeses as an appetizer is on a nice cutting board: the important thing is to vary the textures, from softer to more mature cheeses. For a palette to serve to your guests, we suggest a combination that is difficult to resist! Let's start with the delicious Mozzarella di Bufala Campana, made with fresh whole milk from buffaloes raised with a "GMO-free diet, flours and animal fats. The result? A product that tastes like milk and things of the past.
Let's continue with the Boscatella del Trentino, a fresh cheese with a soft and buttery texture, characterized by a pleasant and delicate taste of milk and produced by a single dairy in Italy, in Fiavè.
We conclude with some Formaggio di Fossa di Sogliano DOP, a cheese made from sheep's milk only, produced in the homonymous municipality of Romagna. Aged for a period ranging from 85 to 105 days, during which it is wrapped in cotton bags and placed in pits natural dug into the rock, it surprises the taste, with aromas that refer to mushrooms and truffles, and with a bitter note that makes it unmistakable.
The extra idea? Combine them with irresistible honeys, jams, and quality toast, for a great start to the meal.
First dishes
What's more Italian than a tasty first course? Just a first course ... enriched by the creaminess of the cheese!
There are many tasty combinations, first of all a Carbonara, worthy of the name, prepared with the tasty Pecorino Sardo Maturo DOP, a touch of taste and innovation compared to the classic use of Pecorino Romano: characterized by an intense aroma and a savory taste, it has a smooth rind, straw yellow in color, surface treated with olive oil, and a hard and compact paste.
And to dive into a creamy melt, nothing better than a creamy risotto with a delicate, but tasty and delicious, sweet Gorgonzola DOP: thanks to the traditional processing and the particular 75-day aging, the Gorgonzola DOP fior fiore Coop has a really good taste. unmistakable.
Second Courses
A crunchy breading, juicy chicken, tasty ham and a delicious melted cheese pour: don't you already have your mouth watering? High quality chicken, excellent ham and Asiago d "Allevo Aged PDO, here is an excellent homemade cordon bleu!
Produced in Enego, on the Asiago plateau, the Coop "Asiago DOP" allevo fior fiore has all the flavor of raw mountain milk, which comes entirely from cows (black spotted and alpine brown) reared in the Alpine area, between Trentino and Veneto.
What if you have vegetarian guests? Grilled vegetables and the delicious and melting Provola puff pastry of Montalbano, a Sicilian specialty from the Nebrodi Mountains, produced with milk from predominantly Alpine brown cows reared in the high mountains and fed exclusively with natural fodder. It is spun by hand, according to a very ancient technique similar to that for kneading bread, so that when you taste it it is "rolled" in the mouth.
Dessert
And for dessert, are you ready to be amazed? Our proposal is as imaginative as it is surprisingly tasty: a cheesecake with chocolate topping. Nothing extraordinary, you will say. The surprise lies in the cheese used: the Coop Fior Fiore Squacquerone di Romagna! It is a whole cow's milk cheese, typical of Romagna, exceptionally creamy, with a sour taste, similar to cottage cheese. Traditionally it goes well with another typical product of Romagna, the piadina, and with cured meats, but in this case its "meltability" lends itself well to the realization of the popular American dessert.
The recipes are many, and all tasty, but those who love cooking know an important rule - the importance of the raw material! Choose FiorFiore Coop, the line of high quality products, strictly Made in Italy for your exquisite recipes!
