Italian winter menu – recipes for 3 courses

Whether there is snow in cold January or not, this all-white menu will bring winter to your plate. The ideas all come from Italy. They are quick recipes that you can easily make yourself and that taste really delicious – after all, homemade is best!

A dream in white – our winter menu suggestion

Spicy garlic cream

Appetizer: winter crostini

Crostini are a simple dish and really easy to prepare. Cut a ciabatta or baguette into thin slices about half a centimeter thick. Place them on a baking tray and drizzle the bread with a little olive oil. Now toast the crostini at 200 °C top and bottom heat until they are crispy.

Spread the crostini with a white, savory spread, such as the garlic cream or the extremely delicate pancetta cream .

Cool burrata melts on hot pasta

Main course: Pasta with delicious burrata

In January, the fresh burrata from Apulia is coming to our store. There is an incredibly simple, incredibly delicious way to enjoy this fine mozzarella. Simply cook your favorite pasta, pluck the burrata sachets into coarse pieces with your fingers, drain the pasta, fold the cool, creamy cheese into the hot, steaming pasta and enjoy the creamy result. You can refine the dish with freshly chopped herbs, a dash of the best olive oil, salt and pepper. A light tomato sauce also goes well with it.

For dessert: Rosemary panna cotta

Alongside tiramisu, panna cotta is probably THE classic Italian dessert. Panna cotta translates as “cooked cream”. You can conjure up this delicacy with very few ingredients. A crowning finale to the white menu!

You will need: 1 l cream, 1 tsp rosemary needles, 80 g sugar, 6 sheets of gelatine

Soak the gelatine leaves in a little cold water and then squeeze them out. Bring the cream to the boil with the rosemary needles and sugar and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Then remove the pan from the heat, pour the cream through a sieve to remove the rosemary and dissolve the gelatine in the cream. Pour the cream into ramekins and chill for a few hours. Turn the panna cotta out of the ramekins onto a plate. Serve with a fruit sauce or a few marinated strawberries.

All in white, pure seduction!