Stracciatella (ice cream) explained

Stracciatella
Country:Italy
Region:Lombardy
Creator:Enrico Panattoni
Year:1961
Type:Ice cream
Main Ingredient:Milk, cream, sugar, milk chocolate
Minor Ingredient:Dark chocolate
No Recipes:true

Stracciatella (pronounced as /it/) is a variety of gelato, consisting of fine strands of drizzled chocolate stirred through it.[1] It was originally created in Bergamo, northern Italy, at the Ristorante La Marianna in 1961. Stracciatella was inspired by stracciatella soup, made from broth into which beaten egg is drizzled, popular around Rome. It is one of the most renowned Italian gelato flavors.[2]

Description

Makers produce the effect by drizzling melted chocolate into plain milk ice cream towards the end of the churning process; the chocolate solidifies immediately after coming in contact with the cold ice cream, and is then broken up and incorporated into the ice cream with a spatula. This process creates the shreds of chocolate that give stracciatella its name,[3] the word meaning 'little shred' in Italian. While stracciatella ice cream traditionally involves milk ice cream and milk chocolate, modern variations can also be made with vanilla and dark chocolate.[4] Manufactured versions, especially in North America, often use grated or chopped chocolate chips in place of fine drizzled streams.[5]

Origin

Enrico Panattoni, the owner of La Marianna, a gelateria in Bergamo, in northern Italy, invented the dish in 1961.[6] According to Panattoni, the idea came to him after he had grown tired of stirring eggs into broth to satisfy customers of his restaurant who kept asking for stracciatella soup. [7]

He was passionate about cooking and pastry and, after numerous experiments, he produced a white ice cream made of cream peppered with irregular pieces of dark chocolate. During the freezing process, he inserted a dose of melted dark chocolate that was instantly solidified and then shredded by the paddles of the ice-cream machine.

The melted chocolate that solidifies and shatters in the batch freezer is reminiscent of the egg that binds in the boiling broth of the stracciatella alla romana. "Stracciatella alla romana was the most famous consommé and, along with that soup, I was looking for an ice cream that could be loved and appreciated by my customers", said Panattoni.[8]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ferrari, Luciano . Gelato and Gourmet Frozen Desserts - A professional learning guide. https://books.google.com/books?id=jRR_E0EJjZkC&pg=PA61. 2005 . Lulu.com . 978-1-4092-8850-3 . 61 . Straciatella Gelato.
  2. Web site: King . Carol . Top Five Italian Gelato Flavors . 2013 . 17 April 2016.
  3. Web site: n/a . Anders . Quick Stracciatella . 6 November 2012 . 17 April 2016.
  4. Web site: Stracciatella Gelato. Torre. Paul. 14 June 2009. The Italian Chef. 4 October 2013. 20 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160420063253/http://italianchef.com/2009/06/14/stracciatella-gelato/. dead.
  5. https://www.recipesfromitaly.com/stracciatella-gelato/https://italianchef.com/stracciatella-gelato/
  6. News: Lutto nel mondo della ristorazione – È morto Enrico Panattoni . 4 October 2013. L'Eco di Bergamo. 4 October 2013. it.
  7. Web site: La stracciatella . 2020-12-20 . La Marianna . it-IT.
  8. Web site: Storia – La Stracciatella. 2020-12-20. it-IT.