Tips for choosing extra virgin olive oil for desserts
Oil for desserts? Of course yes! Discover more
For a long time, extra virgin olive oil has been considered a simple condiment to add to foods.
Fortunately, in recent years extra virgin olive oil is considered for its peculiarities and organoleptic characteristics. it has also been used by great chefs as a food that enriches any dish.
Restaurants often serve extra virgin olive oil as an entrèe accompanied by bread, helping to spread greater awareness of extra virgin olive oil.
Extra virgin olive oil is the basis of many dishes of Mediterranean cuisine, and is also recommended for frying as it is more resistant to high temperatures, preserving the nutritional value of foods.
Olive oil and pastry: a winning combination
It is possible to use extra virgin olive oil in pastry: many desserts are prepared by replacing butter with this extraordinary food: it makes desserts tastier and lighter.
In the past many recipes included the use of oil for desserts and in pastry, but these are ancient traditions.
How to choose the best oil for desserts?
In order to choose which oil to use for desserts, you need to consider the organoleptic characteristics of extra virgin olive oil (aromas, acidity, taste-olfactory persistence). The typical intensity of Apulian oils, for example, can be used to make a dessert a little bitter. Instead, if I use an oil from Garda I will enhance the delicacy of the dessert.
It is necessary to use oils produced from a single cultivar, since a blend will return uncertain results (our Coppadoro, a Coratina monocultivar is perfect for giving intensity and spiciness to desserts).
We must also consider the beneficial properties of extra virgin olive oil, which contains provitamins, oleic acid and fatty acids and is cholesterol-free.
It is not always necessary to replace butter in desserts with extra virgin olive oil, however this alternative could be considered to diversify the offer and satisfy a wider audience.
Regarding desserts with extra virgin olive oil, have you tried our Cioccoratini yet?
They are delicious handcrafted dark chocolate pralines filled with Coppadoro extra virgin olive oil cream from Puglia, our monovarietal from Coratina, with an energetic and appetizing taste.
