“Ducal Soup” is an Italian dessert created by cooks at the court of the Duke of Medici in the 7th century. “Ascend Me” or Tiramisu have become his transformed names. Today this delicacy is one of the most delicious desserts in the world. It is offered in almost every cafe, however, the true taste of Tiramisu can be enjoyed only in good restaurants that follow the entire procedure for its preparation, without replacing the original components.
The Italian Tiramisu recipe includes the following ingredients:
- mascarpone cheese,
- cognac or liquor,
- coffee (espresso),
- dry porous cookies (at home - biscuit).
It should be noted that it will not work to recreate an Italian masterpiece with 100% quality, since you will have to be content with its modification.
In this case, the option Tiramisu a la russe will be considered or simply the dessert recipe “Tiramisu in Russian”. Most recipes are based on the use of eggs, but some craftsmen can do without them.
First, consider a tiramisu recipe that uses eggs. First you need to stock up on Savoyardi cookies or cook it at home.
To prepare a dry porous cookie, beat two eggs with ¼ cup sugar, add vanilla sugar to the mixture and mix. A mixture of flour, baking powder and starch is separately prepared. It is added to the first mixture and whipped again on the mixer. The result is a dough that needs to be transferred to a pastry bag, and then small sticks are squeezed out of it onto a baking sheet. The dishes are pre-lubricated with butter or margarine. Mini biscuits are baked for no more than 12 minutes in the oven, after which they cool.
For its implementation, you should start by grinding 6 yolks with sugar. After the mass becomes homogeneous, 0.45 kg of Mascarpone cheese, Marsala wine are added to it and everything is again mixed in the most thorough way. At the same time, beat 6 proteins and add them to the mixture. So get the cream.
Tiramisu dessert recipe involves the use of a very strong and sweet coffee, preferably espresso. Fresh brewed coffee (glass) is cooled and mixed with wine. Freshly prepared cookies are dipped into this mixture very quickly, laying it at the bottom of the dishes on which the cake will be served.
Part of the cream is spread on the laid out cookies, leveling it so that the next impregnated layer of cookies can be laid on top. Then spread the rest of the cream, also leveling its surface. It should be noted that each of its layers should be abundantly sprinkled with chocolate chips.
A Russian-made tiramisu recipe requires a six-hour exposure of the resulting multilayer consistency in the refrigerator. After that, dessert can be safely served on the table, not forgetting to sprinkle it with bitter cocoa powder.
Ingredients such as Marsala wine and Mascarpone cheese can be replaced with simpler Amaretto liquor and oily village sour cream, respectively. The substitution further distracts the tiramisu recipe from the true one, but the dessert still turns out to be very tasty.
Tiramisu recipe without eggs also has a right to exist. However, without eggs there will be cream, and savoyardi cookies are prepared according to the above recipe.
For cream, you need cream, cheese, sugar. Cold cream is knocked down to get “sluggish peaks." The cheese is knocked down with sugar, and preferably powdered sugar. Half of the whipped cream is added to the second mixture, then gently mixed at the lowest speed. Next, the remaining cream is added and mixed again.
The following procedure for making tiramisu recipe without eggs is similar to that already described.
To create this culinary masterpiece, you need to try to get as close as possible to the original method of preparation and, most importantly, not to replace the ingredients in order to feel the whole taste range that the Italian confectioners tried to convey to the Grand Duke of Medici.