Serves: 5 Preparation: 30 minutes Cooking: 15-20 minutes Difficulty: medium This is the perfect recipe for a Sunday lunch where you sit for hours with your family and friends, you talk, you laugh and you enjoy the food. Ingredients: 500g Conchiglioni Pasta 1 bag of Spinach 500g Ricotta 250g Mozzarella 200g Parmesan cheese Salt Pepper Olive oil 1l Tomato passata (or 2-3 MAMMA FLORA red tomato sauce) 1/2 onion To make the sauce even softer add béchamel to the above ingredients. Optional Ingredients for 1/2l of Béchamel 50g Butter 50g Flour Salt 1/2l Whole milk Tools: 1 Baking Tray 2 Pots with Lids 1 Whisk 1 Bowl Method: Preparing the Pasta Cook the conchiglioni in abundant salted water for half the time...
For 20 cookies Prep: 10min Cooking: 15min Difficulty: Easy This year I have been often in Sicily and become obsessed with their traditional almond biscuits which are famous around the world. Under the thin surface these cookies hide a moist and light almond-flavored enter. Irresistible, I have finally found the perfect the recipe just in time for Christmas. So here you go, delicious almond biscuits ready in 20min to enjoy over Christmas time. Ingredients: 250g ground almond 180g icing sugar 2 egg white 1 table spoon of honey 2-3 drops of natural almond essence Tools: Bowl Baking Tray Method: Pre heat the oven at 170°C In the meantime mix all the ingredients in a bowl using your hands. Create a ball Dust a clean surface of...
Serves: 2 Cooking: 15min Difficulty: easy This recipe is quick and delicious for these autumnal days. It combines together seasonal ingredients into a mouthwatering pasta dish. Ingredients: 200g MAMMA FLORA gnocchetti sardi (GF option available) 1 jar MAMMA FLORA pumpkin pesto 2 pieces sausage 6 mushrooms 3 spring onions Parmesan olive oil Tools: 1 pan 1 pot Method: Boil enough water (at leat 2l) for the pasta While waiting for the water to boil, cut the spring onions in small pieces and place in the pan with 2 tbsp of olive oil. Gently fry Cut the sausage in small pieces and remove the skin, add them in the pan and continue fry Cut the mushroom in thin slices and add...
Prep: 4-5 hours (only if using dry cannellini) Cooking: 30min for pre-cooked beans. 45 min - 1h for dry beans Serves: 4 Difficulty: Easy Lately I have rediscovered the power of legumes, they are healthy, cheap and perfect as comfort food. My mum serves a legume based dish at least twice per week at home. She has many delicious recipes I want to share with you in the next cold months. Cannellini is a more delicate version of beans and in Italy we love cooking with them. You need more prep time if you use dry cannellini otherwise buy the pre-cooked ones in can Mamma Flora's Tip: Pasta and legumes are perfect when paired together, they become a complete dish. Try cooking our Gnocchetti Sardi in...
Prep: 30min Serves: 4 Difficulty: Medium Nowhere else you will find a better spaghetti with clams than on the Amalfi Coast. It is a must, it is a certainty, it is one of our signature dishes. I learned this recipe from my mum when I was a child, but the most important thing are the ingredients. Fresh clams and fragrant ruby red tomatoes are essential. Mamma Flora’s Tip: The quality of the spaghetti is very important, try our MAMMA FLORA spaghetti. We use only unrefined Italian semolina, made with bronze dies and they are slowly dried at low temperature. Finish the cooking of the spaghetti in the sauce for extra flavour. Ingredients: 400g MAMMA FLORA spaghetti (buy it online or check...
