Autumn recipes: 4 dishes with Provolone Valpadana DOP
Craving for autumn flavours? Sit down at the table with Provolone Valpadana
Wool socks, steaming cups of herbal tea, warm scarves, the scent of roasted chestnuts and mulled wine. This and much more is autumn: one of the most loved seasons of the year especially by the most romantic and greedy like us.
Autumn is also the time when ovens and stoves are happily turned on again to give life to tasty recipes that give a nod to seasonal ingredients.
It is the time when we willingly accept the medium and long cooking that we had put aside during the summer, when autumn soups take the place of salads. It is the time of eating with pizzoccheri and polenta, since we will think about the swimsuit test later.
How wonderful is it to sit at the table, perhaps with the fireplace lit, to enjoy a nice autumn dinner?!
If you want to bring the flavors of autumn to the table and pamper the people you love, here are some suggestions for dishes with typically seasonal ingredients that will make you love autumn even more.
Flavors of Autumn with Provolone Valpadana DOP: recipes chosen for you
Let's start our autumn dinner with an ingredient with a thousand beneficial properties, the artichoke.
It makes its appearance on tables in autumn, to remain there until spring, and is well suited to being served in many variations.
Baked artichokes and spicy Provolone Valpadana DOP
THE Baked artichokes and spicy Provolone Valpadana DOP They are stuffed morsels that can be served as a tasty appetizer or as a second course.
The Provolone Valpadana DOP, in its version spicy cheese, gives the dish the right amount of flavor to warm up the autumn atmosphere.
The absolute Queens of autumn? The Veloutés. Warm, tasty, enveloping. We certainly cannot avoid proposing this first course, and reassure you that it is the right choice capable of combining lightness with deliciousness.
In terms of taste, it really has nothing to envy of other dishes, don't you think?!
There Cream of potatoes and onions with crispy bacon and spicy Provolone Valpadana DOP will surprise your palates with its flavour and refinement.
Cream of potatoes and onions with crispy bacon and spicy Provolone Valpadana DOP
If, on the other hand, you want to put something more substantial under your teeth, we have the ideal solution for your first course with an autumn flavour.
A Lasagna with pumpkin, bacon and sweet Provolone Valpadana DOP, to leave everyone breathless. Or hungry.
This is not your grandmother's usual lasagna, but the autumn version of one of the most beloved dishes by Italians.
Lasagna with pumpkin, bacon and sweet Provolone Valpadana DOP
Pumpkin is autumn. An ingredient that appears on fruit and vegetable stalls as early as the beginning of October, that we carve into monstrous shapes to celebrate one of the most beloved holidays for adults and children alike, and that inevitably ends up on our tables to color our dishes orange.
Well yes, between one delicacy and another, we have almost reached the end of our autumn dinner, but not before having proposed a gem among our seasonal second courses.
We have chosen the Roasted medallions of sweet Provolone Valpadana DOP with honey, walnuts and rosemary where the King of ingredients is our very tasty Provolone Valpadana in its version mild.
Roasted medallions of sweet Provolone Valpadana DOP with honey, walnuts and rosemary
Roasted cheese, especially on cold late autumn evenings, is a treat for the stomach and the spirit. Quick and easy to prepare, very pleasant to taste.
Proof that Provolone Valpadana DOP is good even on its own, finely accompanied by the sweetness of honey and the crunchiness of walnuts, with that tasty touch of rosemary sprinkled to taste.
Once dinner is over, all you have to do is curl up near the fire, or on the sofa to watch a film in the warmth, sipping a herbal tea or, why not, a good glass of wine.
Fall is a wonderful season, don't forget to enjoy it to the fullest by hosting more fall dinners with your loved ones.
