PIEDMONT PGI HAZELNUT PASTE

Hazelnut paste 100% Piedmont pgi hazelnuts

Hazelnut paste is a very fine grind (about 12 microns) of roasted hazelnuts.

It is a very versatile and easy to use product.

Hazelnut paste is made by simply very finely grinding toasted hazelnuts, chopped until obtaining a sort of oily paste.

Ideal in pastry making for creams and desserts, excellent for preparing ice cream, but equally delicious in savory dishes.

On the Scoiattolo Rosso farm it is prepared by toasting the hazelnuts a little more strongly, in order to give it a slightly stronger aroma, given that it will be used as a flavoring mixed with other ingredients. For this reason the roasting can be light, medium or strong depending on the requests and needs.

Our hazelnut paste is 100% pure hazelnut, there are no other ingredients inside.

After being toasted, the hazelnut is finely ground in a special machine, then passed through a ball refiner and filtered so that no unground parts with a diameter greater than 12 microns remain.

How to use hazelnut paste?

Hazelnut paste is a versatile, completely natural product, capable of giving any dessert the typical taste and sweetness of hazelnut. It is used in pastry making for the creation of numerous hazelnut desserts: hazelnut paste, in fact, can be used to make shortcrust pastry, sponge cake and other hazelnut baked products; it can be added to cream, custard, Chantilly cream, Bavarian cream and mascarpone to prepare creams for cakes and cold hazelnut desserts such as semifreddos, mousses, entremets and spoon desserts.

In ice cream parlors, hazelnut paste is used, together with the ice cream base, to obtain the classic hazelnut ice cream or hazelnut ripples, with which delicious cones and cups are made.

Thanks to hazelnut ice cream it is possible to make stuffed hazelnut, a classic from the Pizzo Calabro ice cream shop, or shaken hazelnut coffee.

Hazelnut coffee is very famous in Neapolitan cafés, a tasty coffee prepared with espresso, hazelnut paste, sugar and cream. With hazelnut paste it is also possible to make Nocciolino, a very tasty hazelnut liqueur, excellent to offer after a sumptuous meal as a digestive, to accompany desserts, to “correct” coffee or to use in cocktails.

The hazelnut spreadable cream is very simple to prepare at home. To make it you only need two ingredients: dark chocolate and pure hazelnut paste. Instead of chocolate, it is possible to create a delicious spreadable cream using honey, like our Nocciomiel, ideal for flavoring both sweet and savory dishes. Cremini, Piedmontese chocolates made with chocolate and hazelnuts, are also easy to prepare at home

hazelnut paste machine

Hazelnut paste should not be confused with hazelnut cream

The cream, in fact, is a finished product (milk, gianduia or dark chocolate) that can be enjoyed on its own and is part of the spreadable creams, without the need to add it to other ingredients.

Hazelnut paste is a semi-finished product with a very pronounced taste and, as such, must be added to other ingredients in order to be consumed.

In fact, it is mainly used to enrich ice creams, cakes, mousses, semifreddos, bavarois, spoon desserts, shortcrust pastry and sponge cake mixes and many other desserts and baked goods.

All you have to do is try it, to create numerous homemade recipes suitable for all tastes. It makes everyone agree, those who prefer savory or the diehards of sweet, all prepared with a healthy and genuine product such as hazelnut.

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