In cooking, there are many dishes with fancy or notquite common names. Take Italian ice, for example. Not everyone will immediately guess what it is. Nevertheless, the product is very popular in all countries of the world.
Product Description
Any Italian meal mustend with original dessert. It is a worthy logical conclusion. Without a good dessert it is impossible to imagine a feast in true national style. For residents of the peninsula, it can be fragrant Italian ice. In itself, the dish is extremely simple, but very tasty. It is an aromatic frozen mixture of fruit puree with syrup.
The peculiarity of this dessert is to chooseits main components. The main role is played by syrup. And for cooking, it is taken of a strictly defined type. Italian ice is prepared as usual ice cream. All products used for its preparation must go through 3 main stages:
- Stirring
- Whipping.
- Freezing.
The result is a dish that hasunique cooling properties. There is also an Italian ice gourmet. Its difference from the usual dessert is that several types of fruit are used for cooking. As a rule, it is blueberry, cherry or lemon. But here everything depends on personal taste preferences. Therefore, as a fruit component can also be any citrus fruits or berries.
Technology cooking
For example, consider the simplest version of how to prepare Italian ice. The recipe requires the following ingredients:
450 grams of water a glass of corn (light) syrup, 200 grams of sugar and two-thirds cup of lemon or any other fruit juice.
Preparation of the dessert takes place in several basic steps:
- To begin with, pour the water into a saucepan and bring it to the boil on the stove.
- Add sugar and wait until it is completely dissolved.
- Put a special metal container for cooling in the freezer.
- Remove the dishes from the heat.
- Add syrup, fresh juice and mix well. The mixture should be cooled to ambient temperature.
- Pour the contents of the pan into a cooled container and send it back to the freezer.
- After 1-1.5 hours, the mass can be whipped a little with a fork.
Ready dessert can only be decomposed into portion dishes and decorate to your liking.
Similar desserts
There are many more in the national cuisine of Italyrefreshing desserts. Each of them is interesting in its own way and has a special unique taste. Especially popular in the summer is sorbetto. It is very similar to the Italian ice. This is a frozen fruit puree with sugar syrup. Sometimes even popular gourds (melon or watermelon) are used as a fragrant component.
To prepare this dish you need the following products:
200 milliliters of water, 750 grams of watermelon, 1 lemon and 150 grams of sugar.
Preparation of dessert takes place step by step:
- First, the watermelon pulp should be chopped into mashed potatoes using a blender.
- Add lemon juice to the mass.
- Prepare syrup from sugar and water.
- Combine the obtained semi-finished products and mix them well.
- Pour the mass into a clean dish and put it in the freezer.
After a couple of hours, fragrant sorbetto will be ready. Before you put it in cups, you can mix the mixture with a fork.
