AT A GLANCE: Italian Dairy Products
Italian Dairy Products is an authentic Italian cheese factory. Founded by husband and wife team Leo and Silvia Condemi from Milan in 2011, the factory was set up in Sharjah’s Hamriyah Free Zone. Italian Dairy Products crafts mozzarella, ricotta scamorza and burrata from traditional recipes with locally sourced milk. Today it is supplying more than 40 different businesses and hotels in the region.

A taste of Italy

Chef De Cuisine Alessandro Bottazzi at Ronda Locatelli, Atlantis The Palm, shares his favourite recipe: Gnocchi Goat’s Cheese Black Winter Truffle

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Serves 4-5 people
Ingredients: GNOCCHI
1,100g red potatoes; 280-300g “00” flour; 1 egg; 15g salt

Method
Preheat oven to 200oC. Cover the potatoes with cold water and add some salt. Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat and simmer until soft. While the potatoes are still hot, peel them and put them in a deep metal tray. Break the potatoes apart and cover with foil. Put them in the oven to dry for 15 minutes.
Pass the potatoes through a fine sieve, weigh them in a big bowl (should be 1 kilo cooked), and add the rest of the ingredients mixing quickly until the dough comes together. Cover the dough in a kitchen cloth while making the gnocchi. Work the dough while hot.

Ingredients: ROBIOLA SAUCE WITH BLACK TRUFFLE

2 tbsp milk; 2 tbsp double cream; 160g robiola cheese or other fresh goat cheese; 1 carrot, brunoise; 2 stalks of celery, brunoise; 1 onion, brunoise; 1 small bunch of chives, finely chopped; Black truffle

Method
Cook the vegetable brunoise with some butter, without colour.
Heat a sauté pan and add the vegetable brunoise. Add the milk, double cream and goat cheese and let it melt gently. Crush the goat cheese with a spatula.
Add the cooked gnocchi into the pan together with the parmesan and chives. Toss gently and serve with black truffle grated on top.