February 14th is approaching: have you already thought about how to celebrate the day of love? If this year you want to propose an original menu, choose truffles.
February 14th is around the corner: if this year you have decided to organize a special dinner, but you are still unsure about the menu to choose for Valentine’s Day, do not despair! How about proposing one or more dishes enriched with truffles? There are so many recipes featuring this extraordinary ingredient: from appetizers to first courses, from main courses to desserts. With truffles, you can give the final touch to many recipes and transform them into the perfect dishes to celebrate Valentine’s Day!
This underground mushroom with extraordinary flavor (and aphrodisiac properties!) can help you add a touch of originality and create the ideal menu for your Valentine’s dinner. A February 14th menu has to be special, right? So let’s go discover many delicious ideas together to prepare a truly unforgettable Valentine’s Day dinner!
Valentine’s Day Menu: Appetizers with Truffles
A self-respecting Valentine’s dinner must begin with a special appetizer, accompanied by the right wine. Not a wine expert? No fear, we’ll take care of revealing the best wine-truffle pairings for your appetizers! If you want to impress your him or her with your mastery in the kitchen right from the appetizers, we have the right recipe for you: savarins! What are they? Savarins are delicious small tarts enriched with almond flour, which are baked in the oven in special molds. They can then be garnished with a wide variety of ingredients, such as a parmesan fondue and a few shavings of Fine Black Truffle. Original and delicate, they prove to be excellent appetizers with truffles, perfect for amazing your partner!
If, on the other hand, you prefer to try your hand at some other dish, you can choose to prepare, for example, a potato cream with shavings of Norcia Black Truffle, to be accompanied by some breadsticks (perhaps homemade); or single servings of mashed potatoes, completed with a truffle sauce and decorated with small pieces of sausage and, perhaps, some fresh truffle shavings. Try serving them in those delightful small jars with clip-top lids often found in restaurants, for an extra touch of rustic originality. The pairing of potatoes with truffles, after all, is a classic. You can pair these black truffle appetizers with a structured wine aged for a few years, such as a Nebbiolo or a Rosso di Montalcino: with its flavor, it will not overpower that of the truffle, but will enhance it and accompany you towards the first courses!
First Courses with Truffles: From Gnocchi to Polenta
Do you want to bring truly unforgettable truffle first courses to the table? In this case, you can opt for potato gnocchi on a pumpkin velouté: these flavors, in fact, marry well with the flavor notes of the truffle, giving life to an original and tasty dish perfect for a Valentine’s dinner.
Alternatively, if you are a seafood lover and don’t want to give up serving it to celebrate Valentine’s Day, how about a plate of spaghetti with prawns (gamberoni) and truffle? Simple and fast, it is one of the easiest truffle first courses to prepare if you are short on time. Once the prawns are cleaned, in fact, you just need to cook them for a few minutes with garlic and oil and then use everything to toss the spaghetti, adding grated Fine Black Truffle as a final touch. Even the pairing of truffles with seafood, in fact, can offer unexpected surprises of taste. Is your partner celiac and you realized at the last moment that you don’t have gluten-free pasta? No fear! If time is tight, you can always opt for mini-polenta flans with truffle, to be served while waiting for the main course!
Main Courses with Truffles: Recipes to Celebrate Valentine’s Day
Another idea for the Valentine’s Day menu to amaze your partner is raw meat tartare with Marzuolo white truffle (typical of this period) or Fine Black Truffle, to be accompanied, if you wish, with a burrata cream. With excellent quality meat and our truffles, you can achieve a dish with a truly unforgettable flavor.
If, instead, you love cooked meat main courses with truffle, here are some ideas: a sliced steak (tagliata) to be enriched with truffle sauce and mushrooms or, why not, a Rossini-style fillet with Norcia Black Truffle shavings. Fillet (or tournedos) Rossini with truffle is a very delicious and simple dish to prepare, created in honor of the great composer Gioachino Rossini. If you want to bring it to the table for your Valentine’s dinner, you will need beef fillets to be cooked in a pan together with Madeira wine and slices of foie gras that will serve as a base for your fillets. Once cooked, the fillets should be placed on the foie gras slices and completed with grated truffle shavings, to be cut with a truffle slicer.
Valentine’s Day Dinner: Make Way for Truffle Desserts
To end your Valentine’s menu on a high note, however, an excellent dessert cannot be missing! Even in the dessert sector, truffles can come to your aid with many recipes, starting with truffle chocolates: an original and fun sweet, which can even be prepared the day before and for which you can rely on our truffle butter. The other ingredients you will need are cream and chocolate: after boiling the cream, pour it hot over the chocolate shavings and combine everything with the butter. After letting everything rest in the fridge for four hours, it is time to create the chocolates and roll them in cocoa powder as a final touch. Do you have little time available to prepare your truffle dessert? Then you can opt for a chocolate mousse with white truffle shavings: an idea to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the name of sweetness. Or, why not, a ricotta mousse with truffle acacia honey and dark chocolate shavings: a dessert that will amaze your partner and will be enhanced by the perfect union of the taste of honey with that of the truffle and dark chocolate.
The perfect menu for your Valentine’s dinner cannot be improvised: first courses, main courses, and desserts with truffles need the right times and ingredients. Prepare yourself as best as you can by planning ahead and using only excellent quality raw materials, like the products from our shop. Sauces, fresh truffles, whole truffles, and flavor-rich condiments, capable of helping you highlight your dishes and perfect for celebrating Valentine’s Day with an unforgettable dinner!
