Chocolate & Pear Muffin

Each muffin has only 110 kcal!

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• 200 gr flour
• 160 gr sugar
• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 16 gr baking powder
• 50 gr seed oil
• 1 tablespoon apple vinegar
• 250 ml water
• 2 pears

Preheat the oven to 180°.

Peel, quarter and core pears; cut each quarter in tiny pieces and add some lemon juice. 

Put cocoa powder into a bowl and mix it with a sip of water until creamy.

With electric mixer combine sugar, oil and remaining water. Add sifted flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt. Mix until fluffy and creamy. Add creamy cocoa and vinegar.

At last, add pears, softly. 

Spoon the mixture into the muffin cups, filling each about three-quarters full. 

Bake in moderately hot oven about 35/40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean.

Buon appetito!

Potatoes surprises

Do you have guest and you are looking for something fancy as appetizer?

Are you tired of boiled potatoes?

This recipe might be what are you looking for!

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• 500 gr potatoes
• 400 gr flour
• 7 gr yeast
• 1 egg
• 2 tblspoons olive oil
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 3 springs of rosemary
• 100 gr cheese like caciotta
• milk, the amount that is needed

For start, boil the potatoes, mash them and wait until they cool down.

Meantime, take some rosemary and break it into small pieces and add it to the potatoes. 

When the potatoes are cooled, add the olive oil, the salt and the egg and mix it. 

Then add the flour and the yeast until a compact mixture. 

Roll the pastry until half centimeter high. With a glass, cut the pastry in circles.

Now, cut some cheese (I used a cow Kashkaval) into cubes, wet the circles with some milk, put one cheese cube in the middle of a circle and close it with another circle. 

Put the circle in a baking pan and leave it into the off oven for one hour.

Then bake them about 40-45 minutes at 180° C.

If they are abundant, don't worry! The next day they'll be even better! Enjoy!

Buon appetito!

Diet apple pie

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• 200 gr flour
• 100 gr sugar
• 2 yogurt 
• 4 apples
• 2 eggs
• juice of one lemon
• 16 gr baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Peel the apples and cut them in tiny slices. While you cut, put the slices into a bowl and pour some fresh lemon juice, once in a while. 

Meanwhile, whisk eggs and sugar together until light and fluffy; then, add flour and baking powder, yogurt and a pinch of salt. 

Add the slices (and the lemon juice too) but remember to save some for make some décor. Mix everything!

Spread mixture into a buttered pan; make some décor and then bake it about 45 minutes.

And that’s it, a delicious and diet apple pie ready to be enjoyed!

Buon appetito!