Can Be Comfort Food, These Are The 10 Most Popular Gelato Types

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YOGYAKARTA Gelato is a traditional dessert that is considered a comfort food and mood booster. It is important to understand from the start, gelato is different from ice cream. Ice cream has a higher percentage of fat than gelato. Because the mixing and processing process of gelato is slower, besides low fat the texture is also softer than ice cream.

Gelato is made from milk, mixed with pure fruit, nuts, fresh fruit, or various other flavors. These cold foods, originating from Italy, some associate them with the authentic Sicily area created by the alchemist Cosimo Ruggieri. Then Francesco Procopio Cutmen, a native of Sicily, brought gelatos to Paris and started selling them to the middle class as desserts at affordable prices. Well, because of the many variants, here are the popular types of gelatos.

The first type of gelato, called bacio, is classic by combiningELnuts and chocolates. This type of gelato is inspired by bacio Perugina, a chocolate snack containing datelnuts snatched. The name bacio translates into a kiss' that shows a combination of ingredients complementary to each other perfectly. The pale brown bacio is attached to the taste of nuts.

Gelato, who is popular with this second type, has a fine texture made from milk, cream, and sugar. This simple ingredient is actually the most difficult to make. Because it has to produce a sense of sneezing, soft, without additional taste. This type is also a favorite of true gelato makers because the manufacture is the most complicated.

Of course you are familiar with strawberries gelatos that use less milk than other variants. Usually, the ingredients have to use fresh strawberries that are smoothed and then mixed with water, lemon juice, and beating cream. When thoroughly frozen, the fragola gelato has the hallmark of its viscous and soft consistency, bright pink color, as well as a refreshing and intense sense of strawberries.

Still attached to hadelnuts, nocciola is a classic gelato made from milk, cream, eggs, and sugar. This type gives a distinctive taste, nutty, and aroma.

Cioccolato FOUNDente refers to the taste of a classic brown brown gelato that has a strong and long-lasting chocolate taste. Made from high-quality chocolate and then combined with the basic ingredients of milk, cream, eggs, and sugar. Sugar and milk complement perfectly the thick brown color. Varieties that use a higher percentage of black chocolate are usually named the extranoir cioccolato.

Launching Taste Atlas, Tuesday, October 10, this refreshing lemon gelato is still made from the same basic type as the previous gelato. However, it is enriched with lemon juice, lemon skin, sometimes limousineello. In al Limune gelato, lemon taste should not be too pungent so that the flavor combined is balanced with its fine and soft texture.

If you like vandalism, this type of gelato can be the main choice. To enrich the taste, this vanila flavor thick gelato is added with nuts or fruit.

Stracciatella is an Italian gelato variety, consisting of milk, cream, and sugar, with chocolate slices mixed in it.

It was originally discovered in 1962 at Ristorante La Marianna in Bergamo by Enrico Panattoni, who first decided to break a piece of chocolate into ice cream.

Stracciatella has a subtle texture with a slightly crunchy texture. Its name comes from the Italian stracciare, which means 'torn' or 'twisted'.

Pistachio is processed into pasta and then becomes the basic ingredient of gelato with milk, cream, eggs, and sugar. Sometimes, pistachio is roasted or crushed roughly to add to this texture of this sweet and soft dessert.

Cioccolato is a variation of Italian gelato made in brown and cocoa powder as the main ingredient with cream, sugar, and milk. The final product, if made correctly and stirred at low speed, will have a solid and soft texture, as well as a rich dark brown color. It is not known about the origin of brown gelato, despite the fact that the first recipe was published in Naples in 1692, in a book called The Modern Steward.

Those are the ten types of gelatos that are popular. Among them have chocolate, vanila,ELnut, strawberries, and pistachio flavors. There are also many gelato variations made based on the typical earth products of each country. For example, in Indonesia, a variety of watermelon flavor gelatos is made, mangoes, cinnamon, and kemangi.