It’s a Sunday morning, Spring will be here very soon and, in the meanwhile, at breakfast time, we are keeping on spreading a spoon of apricot jam on bread as a healthy habit for daily energy. It is nice when you have homemade jam, since you can choose to prepare it with less sugar and at the same time it will taste of the real fragrance of genuine fruit. Of course, you can also use it to prepare delicious desserts for your family, both children and grown-ups, or even for your guests.
Here there are a couple of suggestions that I’m glad to share with you:
In the first example, we have a typical ‘burrata’ from Apulia region, in Southern Italy, which is stuffed with fresh sheep milk cheese ricotta on apricot jam and a sprinkle of cardamom. It is really worth a taste! Besides, I may suggest to warm lightly your jam in order to have a kind of pleasant contrast with the freshness of the burrata and to decor with some mint, which will exhalt the fragrances of the dish.
As for the second culinary suggestion, you won’t need eggs to prepare the dessert, nor to bake it and, what is more, it will take you only a very short time since it is very easy to make. It could be a cheerful idea for a children party for example!
Ingredients for 5/6 desserts (approximate quantities for glasses):
- 100 g biscuits (even better if they are homemade)
- 75 g almonds
- 65 g fresh butter
- 500g fresh sheep milk cheese ricotta on apricot jam and a sprinkle of cardamom + crème fraîche
- icing sugar
- organic apricot jam
- cardamom
- cinnamon
- mint
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