specialties

The freshness and the quality of our ingredients are wisely exalted in each dish, even the simplest.


The traditional hand-made Pici, the Tortelloni and the other stuffed kind of pasta, the sauces, the meat sauces and our Chianina meat: anything in the menu is hand-made, using fresh products and local suppliers, everything served with spices cultivated in our small field.

FISH TRILOGY
Salmon, monkfish and bass, mousse of potatoes with thyme flavour, lentil pie with maple sauce

4 slices of wild salmon

4 medallions of monkfish

4 slices of bass

200g of “Castelluccio” lentils

300g of Colfiorito potatoes

80g of cream

1dl of maple syrup

Salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste

Extra virgin olive oil to taste

1 branch of rosemary and 1 of thyme

2 slices of garlic

50g brunoise

For fish: Wash and fillet the fishes and form small slices and arrange them as follows: the salmon passed in the white sesame (only the meat) the monkfish in a herb sauce the bass in the poppy seeds (only the meat) For the Mousse of potatoes with thyme flavour: Cook the potatoes in water, strain them and add salt, pepper and nutmeg. Cook all until creamy with thyme perfuse olive oil and add the semi-whipped cream. For the lentils Cook the lentils, drip them and pan-fry them with brunoise, 1slice of garlic and the rosemary. Add salt and pepper. To finish the dish Cook the slices of fish in a pan and put in the oven for 5 minutes in order to have a slightly uncooked core. Put as you like all the ingredients in the plate, add fresh herbs and maple syrup.

"CARNAROLI" RICE WITH QUAIL, WITH ITS POUCHED EGG, ITS STUFFED LEG AND CINTA SENESE BRITTLE
Recipe for 4 people

Ingredients:

300g of Carnaroli rice

2 quails

2dl of Brunello di Montalcino wine

100g of Mirepoix Baby

Salt, pepper, and rosemary to taste

Broth to taste

2 slice of cinta senese

Extra virgin olive oil to taste

4 quail eggs

2 local sausages

20g of pine nuts

Parmesan cheese to taste

2dl of quail broth

For the quail Eviscerate and wash the quails and arrange them as follows: the leg stuffed with sausage and pine nuts the brisket browned with rosemary From the carcass, prepare a broth For the rice Brown a small amount of vegetables (carrots, celery and onion) in extra-virgin olive oil. Toast the rice, Pour Brunello and continue coking with the vegetable broth and quail broth. Add salt and pepper. When almost cooked, add parmesan cheese and extra-virgin olive oil. Garniture Pouched egg quail Pieces of cinta senese Quaglia broth Frech herbs For the plate garniture Put all the ingredients as you like and add quail broth on.

TIRAMISÙ WITH COFFEE SAUCE AND MASCARPONE ICE CREAM
Italian cake

For the mascarpone cream

1 egg

6 yolks

100g of caster sugar

50g of water

3.4g of gelatin

½  small cup of coffee

150g of slightly whipped cream

500g of mascarpone

 

How to do

Put 100g of sugar and 50g of water in a small pot and cook at 120°c.

In the kneader put the egg and the swollen yolks .

Soften the gelatine in cold water. When the sugar reaches the predefined temperature, pour on the egg mixture and, turn the kneader on until it warms up. Press the gelatine and melt it with ½  small cup of hot coffee. Join to the sugar and egg mixture and mix them.

Add the mascarpone and slightly whipped cream.

 

For Savoyards

7 yolks

7 albumens

125g of caster sugar

150g of superfine flour

50g of sugar

50g of superfine flour

 

Whip the yolks with 50g of sugar, then whip the albumens for ¾ and gradually add the remaining sugar, and beat until stiff. Put together the two mixtures and add the flour. Put the mixture in a sac and put on a silpat.

Add 50g of flour and 50g of caster sugar and sprinkle the savoyards. Put in the oven for about 6-8 minutes at 200c°.

 

For the syrup:

Bitter-tasting coffee to taste

Sugar to taste

Sugar the coffee as you like.

 

For the garnished biscuit:

80g of caster sugar

80g of room-temperature butter

80g of albumen

60g of superfine flour

30g of unsweetened cocoa powder

6 yolks

50g of sugar

100 of sugar

50g of potato flour

10g of superfine flour

 

Beat 80g of butter with 80g of sugar, add yolks and mix. Sift flour and cocoa and add to the mixture. Using a sac with a small hole, extend the mixture on the silpat in the shape you like. Put in the fridge.

Then combine yolks with 50g of sugar, and the albumens with 100g of sugar. Sift the flour and the potato flour. Combine the yolk mixture with the albumen mixture, then add the flour and the potato flour. Extend the mixture on the previously garnished silpat and put in the oven at 180°c  -190°c until it is gilded.

Dress the mould with the garnished biscuit, pour the sugary coffee. Proceed with the first layer of mascarpone cream, then a layer of savoyards soaked in the coffee and repeat with the first layer until you arrive at the border or the mould. 


?For the coffee sauce

200g of unsweetened coffee

150g of fresh cream

50g of caster sugar

Put all the ingredients in a pot and put on the stove, wait until it is thickened.

 

For the mascarpone ice cream

500g of Mascarpone

300g of milk

200g of fresh cream

130g of caster sugar

15g acacia honey

 

Boil milk with cream, add sugar and honey and mix until they are melt, put it aside.

Add mascarpone and mix. Put in the freezer ( -16°c)

Presentation Take the tiramisu from the mould and put on a plate. Add some coffee cream, the ice cream and a mint leave.

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