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Here are many recipes and tips for grilling and cooking with a wood-fired oven and some pointers from renowned chefs to make scrumptious dishes for you and your friends.
From pizza dough to desserts, from vegetables to countless ways of cooking meats, our blog recipes always make the grade.
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Mushroom pizza, also known as “Pizza Boscaiola”, is another typical kind of Neapolitan pizza, and one of the best-known pizzas in the world today. The better the quality of the ingredients, and the longer the dough is leavened, the tastier the pizza will be. Your Alfa Ref wood fired oven will bring out its typical [...]
Tuna is a must in Mediterranean cuisine. High in protein, it makes for a great alternative to meat and can be cooked in various ways. The islands around Italy are famous for this kind of fish. To cook the tuna steak we used the Alfa Living Duettino oven. Thanks to the chef tools the tuna here was [...]
Pizza Romana is one of the many variants of pizza, called also “scrocchiarella” by Romans for its very crisp and fragrant crust. INGREDIENTS 1 kg “0” flour (or 700 and 300 semolina “0” flour) 750 ml water 5 g fresh yeast 20 g salt 20 g oil Tomato Mozzarella cheese origano STEPS To make a perfect [...]
Potato pie is a perfect starter that adds style to any special dinner. This is a simple recipe, and like all simple recipes we need to be careful about the food we buy. Thanks to Duettino of Alfa Living’s patented double chamber oven, cooking in the upper chamber is made easy: it keeps the same [...]
When you say pizza, you mean just that. Pizza Margherita, the number 1 food searched on Google worldwide, also known as Neapolitan pizza, is topped with tomato, mozzarella, fresh basil, salt and oil. It is an Italian symbol that dons the colors of the Italian flag. INGREDIENTS Tomato Sauce Mozzarella Cheese Basil STEPS Make dough [...]
Cannelloni is a very rich and tasty traditional Italian dish. It can be prepared with either fresh pasta or dried cannelloni pasta ready to be stuffed. INGREDIENTS 500g meat sauce 500 ml bechamel Butter 250 g of fresh pasta or dried cannelloni Parmigiano Reggiano cheese STEPS Fire up your Alfa Ref oven with a medium [...]
Beef stew with peas is a typical italian “secondo” (secondo is the main dish after pasta and usually is made using fish or meat with some vegetables) and it can be cooked differently around Italy. The ingredients have to be fresh and the meat has to be of the highest quality you can find. Ingredients [...]
“Lasagne alla bolognese” or simply known as Lasagne are one of the best known and tasty dishes of the Italian cuisine. The original recipe of lasagne involves the use of fresh pasta, meat sauce called ragù, bechamel made with milk and butter, and of course plenty of grated parmesan: the typical cheese of Emilia Romagna, [...]
The wheat bread is the center italy country bread for excellence. If properly preserved it can last for many days. Ideal for bruschetta or toasted and stuffed with a good jam. As prepared with whole wheat flour is very healthy and full of fiber. INGREDIENTS 500g wheat flour 3 spoons of extravirgin olive oil 10 [...]
The roast potatoes are a classic Italian side dish that can be served with almost every “secondo” from meat to fish. To get the potatoes gold and crispy we reccomend to use the Alfa refractory oven and cook for long time. Longer time will be softer will be the potatoes. INGREDIENTS 4 large potatoes, peeled and cubed [...]
