Easy and yummy vegetarian dish.
1. Preheat the oven to 180 ºC. Spread the dough on a baking tray covered with baking paper and prick with a fork.
2. Spread the tomato pesto onto the dough and sprinkle with breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese.
3. Wash the vegetables and chop into 1.5 cm dice. Fry the aubergines for 6 minutes in hot olive oil, then add the courgettes and fry for another 5 minutes.
A sweet and spicy drink – healthy, delicious and rather attractive!
1. Peel the ginger and lemons. Wash and peel the carrots. Cut the apples and the fennel into halves or quarters so that they fit into the juice extractor.
2. Put all the ingredients into the juice extractor. Stir the juice well, leave to settle for 5 minutes and then skim off the foam.
3. Put the juice in the refrigerator.
Super easy one but guaranteed wow factor with your guests and kids alike.
Cooking Time: 30 – 45 mins
Serves: 4
INGREDIENTS
500g minced beef
100g wholemeal breadcrumbs
2 eggs, beaten
3 tbsp Sun-dried Tomato Pesto (the best on the market and the one I use all the time is by Italian brand Sacla’)
fresh chopped parsley
3 tbsp oil
1 small brown onion, chopped
350g jar of…
Brilliant recipe which you can have all year round.
Cooking Time: 15 – 30 mins
Serves: 4
INGREDIENTS
1 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
450g of cod fillet, skinned and cut into 4 pieces
4 tbsp of Organic Tomato Pesto (we used Italian Pesto from brand Sacla’)
75g of fresh white breadcrumbs
finely grated lemon zest*
3 tbsp of mixed chopped…
This recipe is taken from the Sara’s Cooking Class app which is available to download now. Children will love to make and decorate these festive treats. Baking is the perfect activity for the Christmas holidays when the weather is uninviting.
Serves 35
Prep Time: 10 minutes (including 30 minutes for chilling)
Cook Time: 15 minutes (including 10 minutes for cooling)
Total Time: 25…
VANILLA PANETTONE is a great alternative option for the holiday season with an added ice cream surprise. Use Amaretto and Vanilla Ice Cream to give this recipe a twist. Although this is a perfect Christmas recipe, we love it all year round.
Serves: 6
Prep time: 10 mins
Ingredients
8 scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream (200g/400ml)
1 large panettone (14cm, 534g)
1 tbsp icing sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp…
Some of my friends call me the Queen of Risottos… Well, I love risotto and my favourite risotto recipes are the Milanese (yellow) risotto with saffron and the wild mushroom risotto (Risotto coi funghi). Here is an unusual risotto recipe that is mouth watering.
Serves 2 lucky people
Ingredients:
2 x 175g chicken breasts
1 tblsp olive oil
100g pancetta cubes
1 x 190g jar Sacla’ Wild…
A great easy recipe for Italian food lovers. It’s a great recipe idea for all those parents who are volunteering to help at the school for the cookery classes.
Cooking Time: 30 – 45 mins
Serves: 12
Ingredients
1 x pack ready-made all butter puff pastry (approx 375g)
plain flour, for dusting
You can make your own pesto or use 2 rounded tbsp Sacla’ Classic or Organic Basil Pesto…
Italians would laugh reading this recipe. This is the simplest and yet the best looking salad ever! Insalata Caprese based on only Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil. Easy and so delicious. My favourite! This delicious recipe has been donated by the ASK Italian Cookbook out on 20th November 2012 whose sales will raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
Serves 4-6 / Prep…