“Piadine or Piada is a thin Italian flatbread, typically prepared in the Romagna. The dough was traditionally cooked on a terracotta dish (called teggia in the Romagnolo dialect), although nowadays flat pans or electric griddles are commonly used.” – Wikipedia

Serves 6 – 8 as a light meal

Cooking time   35 minutes

If you have time, rest the dough in the refrigerator overnight

Ingredients

3 1/3 Cups 00 Flour

100g melted butter

Rice bran oil for brushing

2 buffalo mozzarella (200g each), coarsely torn

Coarsely torn basil, to serve

Marinated zucchini

3 zucchini, thinly sliced lengthways on a mandolin

120ml extra-virgin olive oil

3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced

2 small red chillies, thinly sliced

2 tablespoons lemon juice

Method

Combine flour, butter and 2 teaspoon sea salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook and mix to combine. With motor running, gradually add 200ml hot water, then knead until smooth and elastic (2-3 minutes).

Meanwhile, for marinated zucchini, preheat a char-grill pan over high heat, brush zucchini slices on both sides with a little oil and char-grill in batches, turning once, until tender and golden (1 minute each side).

Heat remaining oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat, add garlic and chilli, cook to infuse (1-2 minutes), remove from heat, add lemon juice, season to taste, add zucchini and set aside to marinate.

Preheat oven to 120°C. Divide dough into 6 pieces and, working with one piece at a time, roll out into a rough 3mm-thick rectangle, brush both sides with a little olive oil and cook on tepanyaki plate over high heat, turning once, until golden (2-3 minutes), then place on an oven tray lined with baking paper and keep warm in oven. Repeat with remaining dough.

Serve piadine scattered with marinated zucchini, mozzarella and torn basil.

ILVE appliances are available from selected retailers and on display at ILVE showrooms nationally.

For more information log onto www.ilve.com.au or call 1300 MY ILVE (69 4583).

Here is a sweet holiday treat straight from our talented showroom cooks!

Chocolate and Raspberry Dessert pizza

Ingredients pizza dough:

3 cups 000 flour (plain flour can be used)

1 teaspoon salt

1 sachet dried yeast (approx 7g or 2 teaspoons)

1 cup warm water

3 table spoons olive oil

Dough will make 3 pizza’s

Toppings

3-4 Tablespoons nuttella

¾ cup frozen or fresh raspberries

½ cup shredded coconut

¾ cup chocolate cake crumbs

¼ cup raw sugar

Raspberry couli and cream, to serve

Method:

1)    Preheat pizza stone turn oven to mode 1, place pizza on shelf position 2 and set thermostat to 250ᵒc, allow 15mins to heat the stone.

2)    Place the flour, yeast and salt into a large bowl, make a well in the centre

3)    Add the combined water and oil and mix to a thick paste. (You may need some additional water)

4)    Transfer to a work bench dusted with some additional flour and knead with the ball of your hands.

5)    Roll out dough and top with your favourite toppings.

6)    Spread the nuttella over the prepared and rolled pizza dough; arrange the raspberries evenly over the nuttella.

7)    Combine the coconut, cake crumbs and sugar in a bowl and mix to form a crumble,

8)    Spread on the top of the berries keeping about 2cm in from the outside edge of the dough.

9)    Bake in the oven on pizza stone for 6-7 minutes or until browned and crisp

Serve hot with raspberry couli and cream. Bellissimo!

The new ILVE Built-in Pizza Oven produces a 400 degree heat when in pizza mode, which cooks pizza to perfection in under three minutes.

If the early feedback is anything to go by, this is definitely one for the budding pizza chefs who would much rather conjure up a delicious topping creation at home than hit the local take-away, and is likely to have local pizzerias furiously sweating its arrival.

We have incorporated an impressive list of renowned ILVE operating features including Turbowave Quickstart preheating, bread and pastry cooking functions and control panel cooling fan. But getting back to the core feature, it is the new pizza mode that undoubtedly sets this apart from the pack.

This oven is compact in design, so it makes for the perfect specialist or second oven in the kitchen that has everything. But with a 38L capacity and everyday cooking operations, such as 10 multifunction settings and recessed grill element, it’s equally suited to be the primary oven in smaller apartment, galley or studio kitchens where space is at a premium.

Ands that’s it! Once installed, all that’s left for primo pizza cooked at home is to find a favourite dough recipe, call on friends or family and let the topping combinations run free.

Bellissimo!

The new ILVE Pizza Oven is available from selected retailers and on display at ILVE showrooms nationally. RRP $3899.

For more information log onto www.ilve.com.au or call (02) 8569 4600.

Industry recognition

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InDesignLive

Designed to perfection, the flush line HP 123 120cm Gas Cooktop from ILVE is space saving and poised to excite home chefs country wide.  Its stunning Italian design, amazing burner options, and ILVE’s renowned hand crafted commercial quality, will bring an authentic touch of Italy to any Australian kitchen.

The latest horizontal cooktop from ILVE is perfect for smaller, inner city kitchens where space is at a premium. Picture a galley style kitchen with a wall mounted oven and it can be hard to envisage where a standard cooktop will fit unobtrusively on the long thin bench tops. This is where the HP123 flush line really comes into its own, whether you are renovating an already small space or designing a sleek kitchen island.

The horizontal four burner construction boasts an impressive quad ring wok super burner, flame control accuracy, pressure thermostat readings and cast iron trivets.  In addition, one simmer and two medium gas burners guarantee there is nothing that can’t be cooked on this cutting edge cooktop.

All gas burners are fitted with flame failure cut out safety devices. Its horizontal design adds to the cooktop’s functionality and safety by eliminating the need to reach over when cooking to the rear burners, as with standard configurations. Cleaning is a cinch with removable trivets, burners and single piece sealed hob.

RRP

$2299.00

The ILVE flush line HP 123 cooktop is available from selected retailers and on display at ILVE showrooms nationally.

For more information log onto www.ilve.com.au or call 1300 MY ILVE (69 4583).

The rise of portable viewing devices and the cooking show has brought a new essential to the kitchen, the need for silence! Enter ILVE’s Silenzio Rangehood, the perfect cooking partner for dutifully following your favourite chef’s recipe on the iPad or television, when the last thing welcome is a noisy exhaust in the background.

Long renowned for their state of the art design and function across their extensive collection of ovens and cooktops, ILVE continue to shape the modern cooking space in its entirety. The Silenzio brings a new level of silence to decorative hoods while maintaining optimum performance, the innovative and patented noise reduction system meaning that at low speeds the hood is barely heard at all.

During normal operation, the Silenzio runs with a noise reduction of more than 35% compared to conventional rangehoods. Sleek stainless steel construction stylishly hides the inner workings of a four-speed motor, an eight-layer anti-grease filter system and superior odour filter system. An airflow deflector makes it possible to improve the intake at the inlet point, increasing the quantity of airflow and lowering the noise level.

Excessive kitchen noise, of the appliance variety, is a worry no longer with the new ILVE Silenzio Rangehood. Noisy family and friends however, are another matter!

The new ILVE Silenzio Rangehood is available in two sizes from selected retailers and on display at ILVE showrooms nationally.

RRPs:

60cm – $2,049.00

90cm – $2,299.00

For more information log onto www.ilve.com.au or call (02) 8569 4600.

Industry recognition

ConnectedChefs

Here is THE kitchen star for those who traditionally love a gas cooktop but have been feeling wooed of late by the slick look and technology of induction. Everyone at ILVE is happy to say it’s a choice to make no longer.

Our new Quadra freestanding collection, designed by the prestigious Chef’s Du Maison Union to withstand the rigors of a commercial cooking environment, ingeniously combines the latest gas and induction cooktop technology with ILVE’s peerless upright ovens and renowned tepanyaki hotplate.

So what’s it got…

Up top, the new 90cm dual fuel gas and induction cooktop provides a large cooking surface with the means to simmer, fry, boil or braise whatever you can throw at it! Centre stage is a two-zone induction hob that creates instantaneous heat and immediate temperature control. Sitting ingeniously above the induction zone is ILVE’s renowned tepanyaki hot plate, easily removable for a quick change between the two.

Surrounding the induction/tepanyaki zone, the ample range of gas hobs includes a triple ring all-purpose wok burner. Each hob features precision burner controls, flame failure cut-out safety devices, deep recessed spill trays and heavy duty cast iron trivets and burner caps finished in matt black.

Down below, the oven incorporates chef quality features that will delight any aspiring home chef or want-to-be kitchen master. Culinary heights once thought unobtainable are now within reach thanks to a giant 110 litre capacity and features such as the pizza, bread and pastry cooking settings, rotisserie and Quickstart preheating function, scorching from 0-180˚C in only eight minutes.

And with all these cooking options, the ease of clean is important! Luckily this cooking machine includes a catalytic cook and clean roof and interior! An inner door and control panel cooling fan and triple door glazing also ensure safer, cooler door temperatures.

In short, ILVE’s new 90cm upright is a culinary dream. If it’s not here, you probably don’t need it!

The new ILVE Dual Fuel Gas and Induction 90cm Upright Oven is available from selected retailers and on display at ILVE showrooms nationally. RRP $8599.

For more information log onto www.ilve.com.au or call (02) 8569 4600.

Industry recognition

Current.com.au

Architectureau.com

IndesignLive.com

IndesignLive.Asia

Last night at the ILVE Sydney showroom we were honored to host a special event for our friendly Leichhardt neighbours, Shearer’s Bookshop.

A sold out assembly of 70 passionate cookbook buyers and foodies were in attendance to celebrate the new recipe collection from Sydney favourite Bill Granger, Bill’s Everyday Asian.

Bill Granger has long taken pride in presenting delicious food that is simple, fresh and irresistible to look at. Aside from some everyday kitchen tips such as removing the backbone from a whole chicken and a recommendation for the best mortar and pestle a kitchen can have, Bill bestowed upon the eager listeners his easygoing approach to food and his philosophy to cooking and ingredients, perhaps best summed up in his new book when discussing his Asian pantry…

“For those of you who know me it probably won’t come as a big surprise to learn that I’m not a great believer in using a million ‘essential’ ingredients, even for Asian-style cooking. I’ve been through the phase of wanting to be authentic down to the last detail but, these days, I’m a lot more mellow. If you’re in an ‘obsessive foodie’ phase – which, by the way, there’s nothing wrong with, love every minute when I’m there – then please, be my guest and trawl round your closest Chinatown looking for lotus root and lily buds. But otherwise the following list should carry you happily through most of the recipes in this book.” (Extract from Bill’s Everyday Asian, by Bill Granger, HarperCollins, $49.99. Available from all good bookshops.)

In Bill’s own words, it’s a philosophy that stems from the joyous flavours and simple ingredients of his other great food love, Mediterranean cooking. On that one, we hear you Bill!

Special thanks again to Bill and the super team at Shearer’s Bookshop for making last night happen. If you’re after a signed copy of Bill’s Everyday Asian, drop in and see the crew at Shearer’s or buy online here while stocks last.

Check out some shots from the event, it’s a shame the amazing smells of cooking don’t come across in photos!

To view ILVE’s full selection of premium kitchen appliances visit www.ilve.com.au, visit your nearest showroom or selected retailer.

For your chance to WIN a signed copy of Bill’s Everyday Asian, leave us a comment below and tell us your Asian cooking dream. Be sure to leave your name and an email address.  The most creative answer wins! Entries close 5pm EST on Friday October 28. Winner will be notified via email on Monday October 31.

ILVE are extremely pleased to say that our latest product release, the Epsilon Island Rangehood, has recently been honored by Good Design Australia with a prestigious Australian International Design Award (AIDA).

The ILVE Epsilon Island Rangehood was announced the winner of the Design Award™ for design excellence, at this years gala presentation ceremony held in Melbourne. It was an amazing night and we are so happy with the award. It is proof that we are making moves in the right direction in regards to product design and innovation, and we hope to evolve from the innovation of the Epsilon and continue to create complimentary products for the kitchen. Exciting times ahead!

Our gracious thanks again to Good Design Australia for this wonderful honor. We hope to see you again next year!

The award winning and innovative ILVE Epsilon is available from selected retailers and on display at ILVE showrooms nationally.

We are very proud to announce that ILVE has been named the Cooking Supplier of the Year at the bi-annual Harvey Norman Electrical Conference. This conference was recently held in Auckland and attended by Harvey Norman electrical franchisees and suppliers. The highlight of the occasion was undoubtedly the conference Gala Dinner, where approximately 900 assembled guests witnessed the award announcement.

Our special thanks go out to all Harvey Norman electrical franchisees. The importance of this award for ILVE cannot be underestimated and is a fantastic reward for the hard work of our sales staff over the past 18 months.

The decoration reinforces ILVE as an important cooking brand supplier to Harvey Norman. It is awarded via a series of independent votes from the extensive network of Harvey Norman proprietors, and proves a real boon to us in what has been a successful period of industry recognition.

We are extremely proud of everyone involved with ILVE. Industry recognition such as this, not to mention the recently awarded Best Stand accolade at designEX, keep pushing ILVE from strength to strength.

Thank you again to Harvey Norman and to all the ILVE sales staff, we are honoured to be the Cooking Supplier of The Year and we’ll continue to work hard to better our great relationship with Harvey Norman.

To locate your nearest Harvey Norman electrical store or relevant ILVE provider, please visit our store locator here or call 02 8569 4600.

Product Release: ILVE H90SD five burner cooktop

All ILVE appliances are hand crafted in Italy with the upmost attention to style and function. Their latest offering, the ILVE H-series 90cm five burner Gas Cooktop is no exception, drawing on nearly 60 years of manufacturing experience and excellence.

Topping the H90SD Cooktop’s desirable features is undoubtedly the dual control, triple ring all purpose super wok burner. The inner ring of this burner is able to be controlled separately, the extra adjustment range to the heat allowing for the most delicate of temperature changes. With the wok burner situated and centred on the far left of the cooktop, it accommodates for a large wok to be utilised without disturbing the remaining cooking surface, featuring a further two medium and two small gas burners.

With all ILVE Gas Cooktops, you can simmer at the lowest temperatures that your recipe calls for or go to searing heat instantly, precision heat settings ensuring perfect cooking control. Cleaning is easy! There are fewer food trapping cracks and crevices allowing for easy wipe maintenance. The trivets, burner heads and supports are removable and easily cleaned either in a dishwasher or by hand.

Stainless steel construction ensures this cook top will co-ordinate beautifully with the design of other ILVE appliances, not to mention scores of alternative kitchen set ups. For safety first, all ILVE gas burners are fitted with flame failure cut out devices.

Industry recognition

Current.com.au

Connected Chefs

Selector

HabitusLiving

The ILVE h-series H90SD gas cooktop is available from selected retailers and on display at ILVE showrooms nationally. RRP $3099.00 For more information log onto www.ilve.com.au or call (02) 8569 4600.