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Converting American and British units in the kitchen

Converting American and British units in the kitchen. A welcome gift to all those who love to cook. Surely you will often, as it happens to me, in the preparation of some recipes we are faced with having to calculate the strange measures taken by the Anglo-Saxons and the Americans and translate them with the units of measurement “European” with which we are most often used to working.

Converting American and British units in the kitchen
Converting American and British units in the kitchen

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The measuring system of the Anglo-American recipes is completely based on:

= Cup Cups

Tablespoon = Spoons

Teaspoon Teaspoon =

Ounces = Once

which they are used in all recipes for solids than for liquids.

For those who are not very good at math, here is a very useful table that I have prepared for you.

Converting American and British units in the kitchen
Converting American and British units in the kitchen

Converting American and British units in the kitchen

conversion table from ounces to grams:

½ oz = 10 g
¾ oz = 20 g
1 oz = 25 g
1½ oz = 40 g
2 oz = 50 g
2½ oz = 60 g
3 oz = 75 g
4 oz = 110 g
4½ oz = 125 g
5 oz = 150 g
6 oz = 175 g
7 oz = 200 g
8 oz = 225 g
9 oz = 250 g
10 oz = 275 g
12 oz = 350 g
1 lb = 450 g
1 lb 8 oz = 700 g
2 lb = 900 g
3 lb = 1.35 kg

This is instead the table for the conversion of liquid:

1 cup = 240 ml
1/2 cup = 120 ml
1/3 cup = 80 ml
1/4 cup = 60 ml = 4 tablespoons (tbsp)
1 tablespoon (tbsp) = 15 ml = 3 teaspoons (tsp)
1 teaspoon = 5 ml (tsp)
1 fluid ounce = 30 ml
1 US quart = 1 liter

This table represents the devious “cup”

1 cup flour = 150 grams
1 cup granulated sugar = 225 grams
1 cup brown sugar = 175 grams
1 cup raisins = 200 grams
1 cup uncooked basmati rice = 180 grams
1 cup grated cheese = 110 grams
1 cup butter / margarine = 2 stick = 225 grams
1 cup milk = 240 ml
1 cup Yogurt = 250 grams
1 cup chocolate chips = 160 grams
1 cup cacao = 120 grams
1 cup miele = 300 grams
1 cup polenta = 160 grams

Converting American and British units in the kitchen
Converting American and British units in the kitchen

Converting American and British units in the kitchen

Knowing the amount expressed in units of measurement Anglo-American and multiplying for conventional numbers you get the right amount in the European measurement system.

Teaspoons (tsp) x 4.93 = milliliters
Tablespoons (tbsp) x 14.79 = milliliters
Fluid ounces (fl. oz.) x 29.57 = milliliters
Cups x 236.59 = milliliters
Cups x 0.236 = liters
Ounces x 28.35 = grams

Complicated? With the availability of this table, certainly everything will be easier.

It does not end here, Also the measures for the temperatures and for the speeds are different, but more about that in another article.

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Flavored with Basil Oil

Flavored with Basil Oil

The oil flavored with basil is one of the ingredients used in the pizza parlors and kitchens around the world. There are several ways to prepare this delicious flavored oil, a faster version raw obtained by blending a few leaves of basil with the olive oil, and version “flavored oil”mostly used on pizza.

Flavored with Basil Oil
Flavored with Basil Oil

To prepare’Oil flavored with basil

10 inflorescences of basil and 10 leaves

1 liter of extra virgin olive oil.

Oil preparation flavored with basil

Pick the flowers early in the morning and the basil leaves, wash and dry well.

Arrange everything in a glass jar, cover with extra virgin olive oil, close the jar and leave to rest in a cool, dark room for 3 weeks.

consume within 3 months.

Flavored with Basil Oil
Flavored with Basil Oil

Tips:

Freshly baked your pizzas, add a little oil with basil before serving them to your customers.

If you want to know more about Basil, consultation wikipedia

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Flavored with Basil Oil
Flavored with Basil Oil

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Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean

Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean

Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean

Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean
Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean

Among the aromatic oils often used in cooking but especially in pizzeria is highly valued rosemary oil. Easy to prepare at home and always present on the table pizza. Serve a customer a focaccia and add an extra virgin olive oil flavored with rosemary is the trick used by many pizza makers to improve the taste of their pizzas.

The process for the preparation of oil to the Mediterranean rosemary is simple and quick and will take away only a few tens of minutes.

Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean
Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean

Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean

  • Let's start with choosing the right bottle.
  • Wash and dry a bottle to use as a display container for our oil with rosemary.
  • Cut fresh sprigs of rosemary mediterranean long until the end of the container.
  • Washed with water and dried well the sprigs of rosemary to prevent the onset of mold.
  • Place rosemary in bottle container.
  • Fill the bottle with extra virgin olive oil, up to completely cover the rosemary.
  • tightly capped
  • Let steep for a place in the dark for at least 3 weeks.
Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean
Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean

Preparation Oil Rosemary Mediterranean

As promised by the title, within minutes we have prepared excellent flavored oil. The secret to success is enclosed in a few words: Use of good extra virgin olive oil.

In Pizzeria, Oil Rosemary is widely used as a dressing on pizza or on all types of bruschetta.

In the kitchen It is great when used as a sauce for grilled meats and it is exceptional as a condiment on any salad.

I spent a whole day visiting Oleificio Fiobo you find by clicking here, to observe the fantastic world of the production of extra virgin olive oil. This is the result:

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How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice. I am always constantly increasing the pizzerias in Italy and around the world that have introduced in their menu this delicious Sicilian specialties.

Arancini are often served as an aperitif, waiting for the arrival pizza, or as a real dish.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

Today we will prepare this delicious Sicilian specialties in a simple and rapid.

We begin by clarifying once and for all that are arancini “male” although in Sicily all the call to “female”….arancine.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

Ingredients for 12 arancini:

For rice

500 grammi riso (Vialone Nano)

1 onion

100 grams of butter

1/2 glass of white wine

vegetable broth

saffron

sale

pepe

 

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

For the filling

200 grams of meat sauce

 

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

For breading:

2 album

bread crumbs
For frying:

Sunflower oil

 

Not remember how to prepare the meat sauce? No problem, here is a simple guide:

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

Prepare the sauce with celery, carrots and onions in a little oil, let it brown and then add the ground meat.

Add the peas and tomato sauce and cook on low heat and season with salt and pepper.

The preparation of the rice:

Prepare the vegetable broth put in a pot with water celery, carrots and onion.

In a pan with 50 grams of butter, we're going to toast the rice, when it's perfectly toasted and color abrato, add white wine.

Gradually add the vegetable stock, When lacking 2 minutes cooking, Dissolve the saffron in a glass with broth and add to rice.

When cooked, the rice in a bowl and let it cool.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

Arrange all the ingredients on the table. With one hand, grab a handful of rice, paid the center a spoonful of sauce and cover with more rice sauce giving it the classic round shape of arancini.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

Past arancini in the album, followed in breadcrumbs.

Fry in hot oil.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

If you want to learn more about Arancini have a look at wikipedia.

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Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

The pizza is the Italian word better known to the world, second of this special list is the word spaghetti followed by cappuccino.
E’ appreciated both by adults and children to be a genuine flat, tasty and cheap. At home or in a restaurant eating a pizza together is a perfect way to spend an evening.
The pizza has many variations, ranging from the classic margherita to complex offering authentic mix of flavors.
Today I will explain how to make a pizza with truffle, a well known product in the middle northern Italy.

Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation
Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

Pizza ingredients Truffle Recipe and Preparation

In my humble opinion, the best way to enjoy a truffle pizza is certainly to grate over a white pizza with mozzarella only, without the tomato, that with the acidity that contains would cover much of the flavor of this special tuber. Despite this, They are many pizza makers that combine truffles with eggs (Bismark) baked ham, pancetta or bacon depending on personal tastes.

Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation
Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

Preparation Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

To prepare the, the leavening and the establishment of balls, Please consult our post:
Dough for homemade pizza
Leavening
The drafting of the balls
At this point, add a generous layer of mozzarella on your pizza, the truffle is grated cooked.
Bake in your oven preheated to 200/250 degrees for 15 minutes, until the edge has reached the perfect degree of browning.

Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation
Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

Remove from the oven and at this point the grated truffle over hot mozzarella. The warmth of freshly baked pizza will release truffle pizza on an exceptional perfume.
Cut into wedges and serve your pizzas piping hot.
I hope I was clear with the information to make this delicious pizza with truffle. Write your comment and your recipes of pizza with truffle on this page.
To learn more about the truffle can consult wikipedia.

Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation
Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation
Porridge Ceci

Porridge Chickpeas Recipe Simple and Tasty

The chickpea flour is a pie very low which is prepared with chickpea flour, water, salt and extra virgin olive oil. Ligurian dish, but also it is known to pisa, leghorn, in nice and across the piedmont. It can be combined with other ingredients such as onions, anchovies, sausage and finally sprinkle with black pepper.
It is cooked in a wood stove or to home, and the cooking takes on a vibrant golden color. Some food companies will distribute a version precooked packaged only to be heated in the oven.

Porridge Ceci
Porridge Ceci

Porridge Chickpeas Recipe Simple and Tasty

This recipe is for 6 people. 15 minutes of preparation, 8 hours of rest, and 30 minutes cooking.
Ingredients: 250 grams of chickpea flour, 700 ml of water, a pinch of salt and pepper, 70 ml of extra virgin olive oil.

Porridge Ceci
Porridge Ceci

Porridge Chickpeas Recipe Simple and Tasty

Place the chickpea flour in a bowl and slowly add the water, stirring with a whisk to remove any lumps. You will get a liquid, velvety, Stirring the mixture, You will form a foam that will have to remove with a strainer perforated. Let stand for 8 hours at room temperature, stirring and foaming the compound. After 4 hours add the extra virgin olive oil, stirring with whisk.
After 8 hours recommended, the batter is ready to be cooked. Complete this by adding salt and pepper.

Porridge Ceci
Porridge Ceci

Porridge Chickpeas Recipe Simple and Tasty

Cooking. Grease a pan with low sides by oil and pour the batter.
Bake the pan in a preheated oven at 200/220 degrees for 30 minutes until the surface is golden and crispy.
Remove from oven and let cool before serving.
Cut into squares or diamond shapes porridge and serve with cheese, vegetables and salami, but it is also delicious natural, a snack or as an aperitif.
The chickpea flour is a food suitable for any diet, including the vegan, suitable for those who are lactose intoillerante and for those suffering from celiac disease, also suitable for subjects with metabolic diseases.
The average portion of chickpea flour is 300 grams which is equivalent to 290 Kcal.
How to prepare your home the chickpea flour? Give your recipe in the comments on this page.
Read more on the chickpea flour, you can consult wikipedia.

Porridge Ceci
Porridge Ceci
Tools To Make Pizza House

Tools To Make Pizza House

In recent years, home baking has taken hold in many Italian families. The homemade pizza is now available to everyone. Unlike some years ago, when it was more difficult to find good ingredients to make a good pizza at home, today you can find on the shelves of supermarkets any product, so with some simple trick we can cook at home a good pizza as that of pizzerias.

Tools To Make Pizza House

To facilitate the task of preparation of the pizza, mix seasonings and cooking, here's a list of stuff that everyone should have at home.
Baking sheet blue steel 30 x 40 cm, E’ the classic pan used to cook all the pizza for pizza, and these are the standard sizes of the furnaces of home.

Tools To Make Pizza House
Tools To Make Pizza House

Refractory stone for direct cooking of bread and pizza in the oven. It is preheated in the oven and ensures even cooking and perfect.

Tools To Make Pizza House
Baking stone to bake the pizza

Wooden shovel to bake pizzas, made with a suitable timber and smooth to make the operation of bake the pizzas much simpler.

Tools To Make Pizza House
Wooden shovel to bake the pizza

Thermometer probe. This very useful tool in the kitchen is used to measure the temperature of the dough for a careful control in the management of the dough in the refrigerator at home.

Tools To Make Pizza House
Thermometer probe for the control of the mixtures

Pliers to churn out trays of pizza. Allow us to ease handling trays of pizza in the oven.

Tools To Make Pizza House
Tongs to handle hot pans

Boxes of rising pizza. Measures 60 x 40 cm, white, indispensable at home and in the pizzeria when we prepare the dough and leave it to leaven.

Tools To Make Pizza House
Cassettes for leavening dough

Chopping wood for pizza and the wheel to cut into wedges your pizzas.

Tools To Make Pizza House
Cutting board for pizza

Monopizza oven for cooking perfect as that of the pizzeria.

oven pizza
Last but not least important, are the raw materials. Always use quality flour, fresh yeast, a good tomato sauce and mozzarella pizza.
I have a feeling, however, to be able to give advice: in life and at work are essential equipment sacrifices and willingness; but they must be accompanied by passion. Leave your comment on this page.
If you want to learn more about the equipment pizzeria consults wikipedia.

Tools To Make Pizza House

sourdough

Yeast and How to Keep it how to prepare

The sourdough or if you prefer to call it sourdough or if you follow the trend will call definitely sourdough, It is very simple to make at home and very satisfactory results.
It is often used for dough with long proofing, 24-48 hours, dough to be kept in the refrigerator.
If you are one of those who makes the pizza at home once a week and does not have much time to advise you not to take even consider the idea of ​​producing your staff to use yeast to the dough for pizza.
La pizza fatta in casa, indeed, because of the short time we have available is mixed and barely leavened is leveled and fired within a few hours. To get quick results, it is advisable to use the classic yeast.
For anyone in the house often panificano, Firing sweets, croissants, donuts and panettone, It is how to prepare yourself a great sourdough.

Yeast and How to Keep it how to prepare

sourdough
Mother Yeast

The dough is alive, therefore it should be treated and go “refreshed weekly with new flour and water.
Ingredients:
200 gr flour 0
100 ml water
1 teaspoon of honey
Procedure:
Mix these ingredients with a spoon until a smooth ball and homogeneous.
Let rise in a bowl covered with a cloth 48 hours
If you spend 48 take hours 200 gr of compound and mixed with:
200 gr flour 0
100 ml water
This second method is called "refreshing" which means food sourdough with new water and new flour. Once completed this second dough you can leave a few hours in a glass jar at room temperature for starts rising and then put it in the fridge.

Yeast and How to Keep it how to prepare

sourdough
sourdough

Once you make the dough, every 5/7 days, It is powered according to this proportion: it weighs 200g must be added 200 grams of flour and new 100 ml of new water.
After a few weeks and 4-5 refreshments will finally test your sourdough preparing at home maybe bread or similar. Nothing pizza for the moment, the yeast would not be strong enough to react quickly so sfornereste bad pizza.
Leave your comment about this article.
To explore this topic, you can consult our previous article:”sourdough or yeast dough for pizza”
If you want to know more about different types of yeast, read our post: “Types of yeast”
If you want to know more about yeast, consultation wikipedia

sourdough
sourdough

How to Make Oil Spicy House

How do oil Spicy homemade with fresh chilli

If you love spicy oil, have lunch and dine with the bottle of chilli oil at the table next to you, if you are always the first to ask for it when you dine in the restaurant or pizzeria, if you love pasta arrabiata .... this is the one for you!!! How to prepare your home the delicious Mediterranean recipe spicy oil.

spicy oil
Spicy oil

If you like spicy food like I love, and add the spicy pizza on, in the first courses, anywhere in the kitchen, you'll have to necessarily try to prepare your homemade spicy oil. As everyone knows, the chili is not suitable for certain diets, for those suffering from heartburn or for those suffering from certain health disorders, but is packed with different properties.

spicy oil
Italian chili

The fresh chili is rich in vitamin C, very beneficial for the body, especially if you do not observe a balanced diet and not to take fruit and vegetables in abundance, very suitable for smokers, Vitamin C contained in it strengthens the immune system and protects against infections. It 'an antioxidant and many industry experts report it as an anti-cancer food. All these beneficial properties are due to a substance contained in it, called "capsaicin".

spicy oil
Preparation spicy oil

Let's see how to properly prepare the spicy oil at home.

Advice: When handling the fresh chili is always advisable to use gloves, or wash hands immediately after use.

Ingredients for a liter of spicy oil

100 grams of fresh chiles Italian

1 liter extra virgin olive oil

A clove of garlic and rosemary (at your leisure)

We prepare the recipe to make the spicy oil

To avoid the occurrence of any bacteria that could ruin your spicy oil is good to dry the peppers before using them. Let a few days in the sun, put them in the oven or microwave, on a radiator etc..

spicy oil
Preparation of chili

After being dried in, rinse well under cold running water and dry well with a cloth. Eliminate the stem and chop very finely on the chopping board. Place the chopped chili with all the seeds in a bottle or in a glass jar with lid, cover with extra virgin olive oil and if it is to your liking, add the garlic and rosemary, finely chopped.

Close the container tightly and store it for three weeks in a dark place of your home. Depending on the amount of oil added to the final result will be more or less spicy.

spicy oil
Spicy oil

How to prepare your spicy oil? Give your recipe in the comments on this page.

If you want to know the best chili, you can take a look at wikipedia.

pizza slices

Recipe for Making the Perfect Pizza Slices in House

The "pizza slices"Or if you prefer to call it"pizza by the slice"Always puts us in front of the usual question every time we prepare the pizza at home: Better make the pizza slices that the pan pizza, or better to make pizza at the plate? The technical difference is summed up in a few simple details: The pizza at the plate is made to be cooked and eaten immediately, and is an individual pizza, the pizza slices is made to remain longer on the shelves of pizzerias, then he would surely a better result if we have to prepare a pizza at home that will consummate a little 'time during a party with many guests.

pizza slices
Pizza slices

Another thing that we must take into account, is that while for the pizza to the plate (monoportion) there will be no leftovers, if you decide to prepare the pizza slices, well you must calculate the doses to avoid waste.

Our pace of life that has become increasingly fast, has meant that they develop increasingly pizzerias, because it is often forced to lunch or quick dinner, leaving the pizza plate as exclusive night venues for families. In conclusion, we could say that the pizza slices is convenient, fast, practice to eat, but if we really want to enjoy a pizza, it is always advisable to go to a club and order a pizza at the plate while comfortably seated at a table.

To obtain a good baking of pizza slices to our house is of paramount importance to have a good oven, electric or ventilated, but even with a regular kitchen oven gas standard you can get good results by following our advice.

pizza slices
Slice of pizza slices

Dough:

The dough for pizza slices is the same of the pizza to the plate. The ovens of home kitchens are now standardized and have room to be able to cook 2 trays of the measures 30 x 40 cm. A larger amount of pizza baked in house standard would result in an inevitable lowering of the temperature during cooking, with disastrous results.

To 2 trays 30 x 40 cm (as shown below)we will need about 1 kilo of dough:

pizza slices
The classical baking ovens home.

Flour type "0" 625 grams

Water 375 grams

Sale 15 grams

Yeast 2/3 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Oil 2-3 spoons

**Different types of flour absorb water in different quantity, Always check the proper density of the mixture by adding or removing flour.

Preparation:

Pour into a bowl water, Dissolve the yeast, add oil and sugar, pour the flour and started to amalgamate, Add salt and knead well until dough is smooth and elastic. May sound more comfortable work it on a pastry.

Divide the dough into 2 pieces 500 grams. Sprinkle the surface of the pans evenly with a little oil and the mixture disponeteci, let stand tightly covered for leavening. After about an hour, helping you with your fingertips, flattened the dough so as to cover the entire surface of the pan.

At this point we have to wait another 30 minutes that the leavening colder again before seasoning and bake.

The pizza slices should be cooked in 2 phases, the first phase with the tomato, to 15/20 minutes (depends on the oven) and as soon as we notice that the edge starts to brown, the sforniamo, add the ingredients and mozzarella, chopped, Then we put it in the oven until the cheese is dissolved and the edge will be completely golden.

pizza slices
Tour of a pizzeria

As I suggest in all our recipe, cooking in the oven pizza, is the most delicate phase of the whole process, then .... Never open the oven to check the doneness, and, warm it very well at the temperature maxim before baking trays of pizza.

How to prepare your home the pizza slices? Give your recipe in the comments on this page.

If you are interested to know more about the various types of existing pizzeria in Italy, consultation wikipedia.