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Fine Italian ingredients for chefs
Can also be used to make special, tasty mini pizzas.
Cream with a thousand uses with a pleasant, lingering truffle aroma. Can be used both hot and cold for tarts, bruschettas, sandwiches, pizzas, etc. Can be mixed with soft cheeses or mayonnaise to fill choux pastry balls, cannolini, vol-au-vents etc. If lengthened with cream or melted cheese or a drop of milk, ideal for pasta dishes using egg or semolina pasta and rice. Excellent dressing for potato gnocchi or truffle lasagne: make 5 layers with strips of egg pasta, béchamel and diluted truffle cream, cubes of ham and slices of fontina. When you have made the 5 layers, put it in the oven to bake for around 30 minutes at 180°C. Can be used as a sauce on cutlets, fillets, to add flavour to mixed minced meat in order to make aromatic meatballs or fillings for roast meat, or to spread on meat to create stuffed roasts. It is a very versatile sauce that tickles the imagination, so you’ll try it in lots of different ways. A sauce with a delicate mix of fragrances and flavours, exclusive to our company, at a very competitive price.
Cream for many uses. Excellent with salami and fresh tomatoes. Can be used as it is, or by diluting with mayonnaise. For a tasty morsel, use as a stuffing for cherry tomatoes after hollowing them out. Can also be used for sandwiches, pizzas, bruschettas, tarts, but also as a sauce for pasta dishes using semolina pasta. By mixing with flour and eggs, we can also create marble-effect pastries that can be topped with butter, spicy salami, dried tomatoes, cream and parsley.
Sauce with tomatoes processed during the season. With a base of onion, olive oil, a higher percentage of basil and very little fat.
Typical italian meat sauce, Bolognese Sauce Cucina Antica, is the best home-made style ragouts.
Classic condiments for pasta, in particular macaroni, tagliatelle, lasagne.
Small, top quality artichokes, left whole or cut in two. Stripped of the hard leaves and sautéed with oil, garlic, parsley and a splash of vinegar. The whole artichokes are mainly recommended for use as a starter or side dish, and the split artichokes for pizzas, panini, sandwiches and tarts. If you want to savour them a different way, drain off the oil, dip in flour, then egg, then breadcrumbs. Fry in a generous amount of hot oil and you get a tasty morsel for a starter or aperitif.
Arrabbiata sauce is ideal for penne or short ribbed pasta.
Add freshly chopped parsley and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
Typical italian sauce, can be used for bruschettas or for all recipes requiring tomato to give a fuller flavour.
If you want, you can use it with borlotti beans to make a tasty dip or with Mexican black beans for tortillas.
We are the only ones whose carbonara contains egg.
Thanks to its creamy texture, even when heated the egg inside doesn’t cook anymore and go like scrambled egg.
It is used mainly as a pasta sauce (excellent with spaghetti, ideal with long semolina pasta).
Before putting on the pasta it needs heating in a frying pan for about 1 minute.
Then it needs diluting with the cooking water or some milk.
Other uses: for pizza, crostoni, vol-au-vents. We recommend using the product before cooking (for pizza) or heated up (for crostoni or vol-au-vents).
Can be combined with cheese, cream, peas and oregano.
Sweet ‘n’ sour Borettane onions cooked in balsamic vinegar of Modena and extra virgin olive oil. Excellent either hot or cold as a starter or an aperitif. They are also used in buffets or as a side dish for recipes with balsamic vinegar, such as cutlets or fillets. We can heat them up with their preserving liquid until it dries out to obtain a caramellised side dish. Also excellent eaten with grilled or boiled meat or with fish.
From the traditional recipe, Pesto alla Genovese is prepared with small leaves of fresh Genoa variety basil so it doesn’t taste bitter. Typical sauce for dressing trofiette and tagliolini pasta. We recommend cooking the pasta with diced potato and chopped beans. Ideal as a sauce for egg and semolina pasta as well as potato gnocchi. Excellent for adding flavour to tomato sauces or cold pasta dishes, or spread on crostoni or bruschettas, or to give more taste to raw or baked tomatoes, boiled potatoes, or to accompany soft cheese.