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Food Network launches a new cooking show titled X Bambini - Ricette dello Chef Giancarlo Perbellini on Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 19.15.
In each episode, the Michelin Star's Chef will present 24 sweet and savory recipes, including snacks, first and second courses, created for the little ones.
The chef will present recipes designed to be easily replicated in the family. Simple recipes to bring seasonal and genuine flavors to the table, relying on the secrets and experience of the chef patron of the 2 Michelin star Casa Perbellini and the pastry shop X Dolce Locanda in Verona, famous for its Pandoro. Other Perbellini activities include the Locanda Perbellini bistro in Milan, the Locanda Perbellini by the sea on the beach of Bovo Marina, in Sicily and the new Locanda Perbellini Ai Beati in Garda.

No modern techniques, no low-temperature cooking or vacuum-packed preparations, but quick solutions, perhaps reinterpreting the classics in an original way. "To make chicken with potatoes - explains the chef - a dish that would take an hour to prepare, we cooked a boneless leg, very juicy, ready in twenty minutes." With the aim of inducing children to taste as much as possible, even those foods that are less appreciated by their palates, but which they can learn to love. "If we begin to know many flavors during childhood - adds Perbellini - memory will allow us to appreciate them even when we grow up and we will enrich our experience with food". And for traditional recipes that include ingredients such as butter and sugar? "We have completely rethought the quantities, lightening them in the fatty and sugary parts, paying great attention to the nutritional aspect", declares chef Perbellini, who adds: "not following seasonality is a serious mistake, because eating foods respecting the cycle of the seasons it's a great way to vary flavors, as well as being a sustainable choice ".

Green light, among others, with citrus cream, rice cake, cheese cake, risotto, cod and stew, passing through croutons, eggs and lots of vegetables, to meet the frenetic rhythms of mothers and fathers, debunking the commonplace according to which to cook healthy and tasty dishes you need many preparations and long times.

X bambini ricette dello chef Giancarlo Perbellini (8 eps. x 30') is produced by Orto Visivo for  Discovery Italia.