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An aperitif with friends is always an extremely pleasant convivial moment, one of those appointments during which chit-chatting must be enlivened by good wine but also good food such as Teff tartlets.

Chips, peanuts are always available but, let’s be honest, they are not the right solution. That’s why you need a few extra ideas to make a special and appetising aperitif to share also with the little ones. That’s right, because they can be an interesting and tasty way to get children to eat the much ‘dreaded’ vegetables (such as Vegetable and tuna flan).

Therefore, we propose our recipe for preparing tasty and colourful Teff tartlets with Squacquerone cheese and vegetables.

Teff tartlets with Squacquerone cheese and vegetables

44.29g carbohydrates per 100g of baked brisè pastry

Ingredients for the brisè pastry

  • 80g teff flour*
  • 75g water
  • 55g wholemeal rice flour*
  • 45g buckwheat flour*
  • 45g almond flour*
  • 45g butter
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 1 pinch of salt

Ingredients for the filling

  • 150g Squacquerone cheese
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 courgette
  • 1 leek
  • 1 piece of cabbage
  • extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper to taste

**Ingredients specific for celiacs

*Ingredients whose labels must read “gluten-free” (or, in Italy, present on  Prontuario AIC)

Preparation

  1. Start by preparing the dough for the tartlets. Blend the butter with the milk, using a food processor, until soft; add the three types of flour to the freshly processed butter, add salt to taste and knead until smooth. Then wrap the dough in cling film and let it rest in the refrigerator for about 1 hour.
  2. Line tartlet moulds with the brisè pastry and bake at 180°C for 10-15 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
  3. And now the filling. Julienne the carrot and courgette, finely slice the leek and thinly slice the cabbage. Put a little oil in a non-stick frying pan and sauté the vegetables with a pinch of salt and pepper until slightly soft.

La farcitura delle tartellette di teff

The filling of the teff tartlets

  1. Just before serving the tartlets, assemble them by placing a teaspoon of Squacquerone cheese on the bottom of each tartlet and then cover it with the warm vegetables.
Le tartellette di teff con le verdurine

Teff tartlets with vegetables

Version with gluten of Teff tartlets with Squacquerone cheese and vegetables

The recipe contains only naturally gluten-free ingredients, so no adaptation is necessary for its version with gluten.

Winter offers us some wonderful products, and Radicchio is certainly one of these delicacies whose secrets you can discover in this article dedicated to the “Winter Flower” and this recipe to prepare Ricotta dumplings with radicchio.

At the same time, cold days bring with them a desire for full-bodied, rich-tasting recipes, a solution to combat the cold and pamper the palate. For this reason, we like first courses that combine balanced ingredients with an enveloping flavour. So, here are our Ricotta dumplings with radicchio.

Served piping hot and creamy, they are irresistible!

Ricotta dumplings with radicchio

16.4g carbohydrates per 100g plain ricotta dumplings

Ingredients

  • 300g cow’s milk Ricotta cheese
  • 200g Taleggio cheese
  • 100g Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, grated
  • 100g gluten-free multi-purpose flour, brand Schär**
  • 1 egg
  • 1 Radicchio from Treviso
  • salt and extra virgin olive oil

**Ingredients specific for celiacs

*Ingredients whose labels must read “gluten-free” (or, in Italy, present on  Prontuario AIC)

Preparation

  1. Start preparing the dumplings: mix Ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese, flour and egg, adding salt to taste. Shape into a dough ball and put it to rest in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes. Once ready, create cylindrical strips and cut them into chunks, they will be your dumplings.

Uno_Chef_per_Gaia_gnocchi di ricotta al radicchio e taleggio

  1. In the meantime, put a few tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in a non-stick frying pan and sauté the chopped Treviso radicchio. Once soft, add the Taleggio cheese and turn off the heat.

ricette senza glutine_Uno_Chef_per_Gaia

  1. Cook the dumplings in boiling salted water for a few minutes. As soon as they rise to the surface, remove them with a slotted spoon and put them in the pan with Radicchio and Taleggio cheese.

IMG_2398Foto Lorenzo Moreni_Uno_Chef_per_Gaia_2016

  1. Stir gently over medium heat so that the cheese melts and all the flavours blend together.

Uno_Chef_per_Gaia_gnocchetti di ricotta al radicchio

Version with gluten of Ricotta dumplings with radicchio

Replace the gluten free flour with 120g wheat flour.