In cooking, there are many dishes with fancy or not quite ordinary names. Take, for example, Italian ice. 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 must end with an original dessert. He is its worthy logical conclusion. Without a good dessert, it is impossible to imagine a feast in a true national style. For residents of the Apennine Peninsula, it can be fragrant Italian ice. The dish itself is extremely simple, but very tasty. It is a fragrant frozen mixture of fruit puree with syrup.
A feature of such a dessert is the choice of its main components. The main role here is played by syrup. Moreover, for cooking it is taken of a strictly certain type. Italian ice is being prepared like regular ice cream. All products used for its preparation must go through 3 main stages:
- Stirring.
- Whipping.
- Freezing.
The result is a dish with unique cooling properties. There is also Italian gourmet ice. Its difference from the usual dessert is that several types of fruits are used for cooking. As a rule, this is blueberry, cherry or lemon. But here it all depends on personal taste preferences. Therefore, as a fruit component can also be any citrus fruits or berries.
Cooking technology
For example, you can consider the simplest option on how to prepare Italian ice. The recipe requires the following components:
450 grams of water a glass of corn (light) syrup, 200 grams of sugar and two-thirds a glass of lemon or any other fruit juice.
Dessert preparation takes place in several main stages:
- First you need to pour the water into the pan and bring it to a boil on the stove.
- Pour in 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, freshly squeezed juice and mix well. The mixture should cool to ambient temperature.
- Pour the contents of the pan into a refrigerated container and send it back to the freezer.
- After 1-1.5 hours, the mass can be slightly beaten with a fork.
The finished dessert can only be laid out in portioned dishes and decorated to your liking.
Similar desserts
There are many other cold desserts in Italian national cuisine . Each of them is interesting in its own way and has a special unique taste. Very popular especially in the summer is the sorbetto. It is very reminiscent of Italian ice. This is a frozen fruit puree with sugar syrup. Popular melons (melon or watermelon) are sometimes even used as a flavor component.
To prepare such a dish, you need the following products:
200 milliliters of water, 750 grams of watermelon, 1 lemon and 150 grams of sugar.
Dessert preparation is step by step:
- First, the watermelon pulp must be mashed with a blender.
- Add lemon juice to the resulting mass.
- Prepare syrup from sugar and water.
- Combine the resulting 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, the aromatic sorbetto will be ready. Before you put it in glasses, mix the mixture with a fork.