Toast with Apple & Cinnamon Compote

Breakfast is the meal I don't like the most, because I don't know what to eat and everything seems to be boring after a few days. So that's why I've decided to cook this recipe, which is very good and light!

Ingredients

1 Apple

1 Slice of Whole Wheat Bread  

1/2 Teaspoon of Brown Sugar
1/2 Glass of Water  

Cinnamon 

1 Low Fat Yoghurt

• Peel the apple and after removing the seeds and the hard parts, cut into cubes.
• Heat a pan and put the apple pieces without adding anything.
• Cook for a minute or two, then add the sugar, the water and the cinnamon. Cook until it becomes soft and if you need it, add water.
• Toast the bread.
• When the apple is soft you are ready for breakfast. If you want you can blend everything, but I love to eat the apple pieces.
• Pour the apple on toast and garnish with a few teaspoons of yogurt.
• Eat the leftover apple eat with the yogurt, it s delicious!

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Ricotta Bread - Sardinian Recipe

The Ricotta Bread (in Italian panini alla ricotta) are a specialty of my region, Sardinia. I am a real expert of this bread because I love it madly. If you've never tasted you can not understand, because it is a mix of sweet and salty. Thinking of stuffing them for me is a real sacrilege, because it is so good to eat itself. But let 's see how you can do it!

Ingredients

Flour 500 gr

Ricotta Cheese 500 gr

Fresh Yeast 7-8 gr

Milk 70 ml

Brown Sugar 1 and 1/2

Saffron

Salt 2 teaspoons

  

• Put the sifted flour, the ricotta, the sugar and the saffron in the kneader.
• Take a glass and dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm milk and keep aside.
• Mix the ingredients in the kneader for a few seconds and the add the milk with the fresh yeast.
• After about a minute, add the salt.
• Keep on kneadind for 2 - 3 minutes until the ingredients are well blended and the dough will come away from the kneader alone.
• Remove the dough from the kneader and  knead a bit with your hands untilit will have a smooth surface.
• Make a ball shape.
• Put the ball into a lightly floured a bowl and cover with the plastic wrap.
• Let rise for about 2 hours in the closed and off oven and turn its light on if you want to speed up the rising process.
•  If you prefer to use less yeast, just allow the bread to rise longer.
• When the dough has doubled in volume, place it on a work surface lightly dusted with flour. Make the ball shapes, about 80 or 90 gr each.
•  Place the bread on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and let rise, again in the oven, for about 1 hour. Put a bowl with water on the bottom of the oven, to prevent the dough to dry out.
• Bake in conventional oven at 200-220° for 15-18 minutes.

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Homemade Whole Wheat Bread

Making homemade bread is a great satisfaction, especially if it comes out very good as mine! Try my recipe and let me know!

Wholewheat Flour 250 gr.

Water   150 ml.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil  25 gr.

Salt   4-5 gr.

Fresh Yeast 4 gr

Brown Sugar 1 teaspoon

• Take a glass  and dissolve the yeast in a little water (removing it from the dose) with the teaspoon of sugar.
• In another glass, dissolve the salt with a little water and all the oil.
• Put the sifted flour and the mixture of water, yeast and sugar in the kneader, or do this step by hand. 
• Start to knead,  incorporating the remaining water, a bit at a time, alternate it with the mix of water, oil and salt.
• It's possible that you don't need the all dose of water.
• The dough is ready when it will have a ball shape.
• At this point, transfer the mixture into a lightly floured bowl and cover with the plastic wrap.
•  Let rise for about 2 hours in the closed and off oven and turn its light on if you want to speed up the rising process.
•  If you prefer to use less yeast, just allow the bread to rise longer.
• When the dough has doubled in volume, place it on a work surface lightly dusted with flour. Shape the dough as you like. I tried to make different types: braided, round and so on.

•  Place the bread on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and let rise, again in the oven, for about 1 hour. Put a bowl with water on the bottom of the oven, to prevent the dough to dry out.
• Bake in conventional oven at 200° for 25 minutes.

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Homemade Bread

Making homemade bread is a great satisfaction, especially if it comes out very good as mine! Try my recipe and let me know!

White Flour  250 gr.

Manitoba Flour  250 gr.

Water   300 ml.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil  50 gr.

Salt   8 gr.

Fresh Yeast 7-8 gr

Sugar   1 teaspoon

• Take a glass  and dissolve the yeast in a little water (removing it from the dose) with the teaspoon of sugar.
• In another glass, dissolve the salt with a little water and all the oil.
• Put the sifted flour and the mixture of water, yeast and sugar in the kneader, or do this step by hand. 
• Start to knead,  incorporating the remaining water, a bit at a time, alternate it with the mix of water, oil and salt.
• It's possible that you don't need the all dose of water.
• The dough is ready when it will have a ball shape.
• At this point, transfer the mixture into a lightly floured bowl and cover with the plastic wrap.
•  Let rise for about 2 hours in the closed and off oven and turn its light on if you want to speed up the rising process.
•  If you prefer to use less yeast, just allow the bread to rise longer
• When the dough has doubled in volume, place it on a work surface lightly dusted with flour. Shape the dough as you like. I tried to make different types: braided, round and so on.

•  Place the bread on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and let rise, again in the oven, for about 1 hour. Put a bowl with water on the bottom of the oven, to prevent the dough to dry out.
• Bake in conventional oven at 200° for 25 minutes.

 Update ---> You can use 500 gr of white flour and the result will be the same.

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