It’s still warm, the oven is still off, and I’m craving easy and quick recipes, so here’s the Recipe for Bresaola Rolls with pistachio! 5 minutes to prepare them, a few seconds to make them disappear, no pans needed, no oven needed, you’ll just need a small bowl, a plate, and a knife! Ready?!? Let’s prepare Bresaola Cannoli with Philadelphia, a creamy heart with a crunchy effect inside!
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Preparing the Bresaola Rolls is very simple, you can choose the creamy cheese you like best. They are a perfect starter with bresaola that you can vary every time. From bresaola and ricotta rolls to bresaola and goat cheese rolls or stracchino. However, I suggest keeping the pistachio crumbs or at most replacing them with peanut crumbs. A crunchy and salty part will give the right flavor and balance to this recipe. You can also choose other types of cheeses such as: Herb Philadelphia or Robiola or Certosa. I can tell you that I’ve already tried different cheeses, but my favorite remains the classic spreadable one.
The simple recipe requires few and simple ingredients, a few minutes of preparation, and the dish is ready to be brought to the table. You can serve the Bresaola Cannoli with cheese as a starter, or as a convenient finger food during an aperitif. But nobody stops you, in fact, I suggest it, from bringing them with you for lunch at the office closed inside a lunch box! You can enjoy a simple dish, rich in protein that won’t weigh you down. A light and tasty lunch.
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- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Cheap
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 2 servings
- Cooking methods: No cooking
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 280.05 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 1.82 (g) of which sugars 0.90 (g)
- Proteins 22.32 (g)
- Fat 19.97 (g) of which saturated 1.52 (g)of which unsaturated 10.50 (g)
- Fibers 2.12 (g)
- Sodium 882.70 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 100 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 8 slices bresaola (cut a bit thicker)
- 1.76 oz cream cheese (in my case Philadelphia which you can substitute with: robiola, stracchino, goat cheese, ricotta or certosa)
- 1.41 oz pistachio crumbs (coarsely chopped)
Alternatives to cream cheese that I chose: ricotta, robiola, stracchino, certosa, goat cheese. You can obviously choose the lactose-free versions of the cheeses just listed.
Tools
- 2 Plates
- 1 Knife
- 1 Bowl
If you can’t find pistachio crumbs or you have whole pistachios in your pantry, use a mixer to chop them into not too small pieces. Alternatively, you can coarsely chop the pistachios, with a well-sharpened kitchen knife. Place the pistachios on a wooden cutting board and chop the pistachios not too finely so you can taste and feel the texture inside each single bresaola roll with cheese.
Bresaola Rolls Recipe Steps:
Do you have 5 minutes? Perfect, let’s start!
Let’s take the cream cheese we’ve chosen, the bresaola which we had the deli slice a bit thicker than usual, and the pistachio crumbs. Then we place all the ingredients on a work surface. Now we take the plate, the knife without a blade, and a small bowl.
We pour the chopped pistachios into the small bowl. Arrange the bresaola slices on the plate one or two at a time so that you have the space needed to spread the surface with cheese and then roll them easily. We are ready to start.
I chose to spread Philadelphia only on part of the bresaola slice so they don’t become too sticky. I sprinkled with pistachio crumbs and rolled. To close the bresaola roll well, I spread a thin layer of cheese. Insert some Philadelphia at the two ends, then dip in the pistachio crumbs inside the small bowl and place our bresaola cannolo on the other plate. Continue like this with the remaining seven slices.
We are ready to serve our bresaola appetizers to our guests or family. Perfect Cannoli with Bresaola and Pistachio Crumbs! Honestly, I didn’t know what name to choose for this recipe, between rolls and cannoli I was a bit undecided, then I thought: “But Bea, whatever you call them, as long as they are good and that Google can understand what you’re talking about in this recipe!” So whether you call them Bresaola Cannoli with Cheese or Bresaola Rolls and Pistachio, there’s no difference. They are good, trust me and try them right away!
I hope you liked this simple and quick recipe, I’ll see you on the blog with lots of other good and easy recipes and I wish you bon appétit!
Storage of Bresaola Rolls:
You can store Bresaola Rolls with cheese in a refrigerator container with a lid for up to two days, then they will become mushy and will no longer be as tasty as freshly prepared. It’s such a simple and quick recipe that it’s a shame to make them too many days ahead.
The cheese variations you can make have already been indicated in the ingredient list of this recipe. I haven’t tried it yet with burrata or stracciatella cream, if you try it, let me know!
