Summer cold dishes: 5 delicious recipes

We are wrong to connect a cold and light dish only to salads: even in summer we can indulge ourselves in the kitchen, however far from the oven and stove! Just apply our advice and you will have a perfect menu for the hottest days, even on more formal occasions such as a dinner on the terrace with friends or relatives. We will use lots of spices, meat, fish, and even fruit to make the next meals less sultry and boring.

The fresh marinated salmon it is so good that it could really stand next to starters in starred restaurants: a few well-balanced ingredients, some forethought, patience for a few hours and you will taste a dream carpaccio.

Do you prefer meat? Well then you have to taste the beef tartare flavored with fresh ginger, very tender and to be combined with many elements, even crunchy, to create a pleasant contrast. You could accompany these dishes, so fragrant and very fresh even in taste, withwatermelon salad: watermelon and Greek feta or quartirolo, alongside Mediterranean elements such as tomatoes, almonds and Tropea onions.

Finally, we take inspiration from abroad, an eye on the world that allows us to broaden our culinary horizons as well. The guacamole (or guacamole) is a velvety and addictive sauce, made up of ripe avocado, tomatoes and little else: we explain how to make it, with all the secrets to making it perfect and suggestions for serving it. We will let you discover an alternative to the famous spring rolls – delicious, but fried – or the Vietnamese rolls: it is a lot of vegetables just sautéed, wrapped in thin and tender rice paper and served raw in a sweet and sour sauce… impossible to leave them on the plate!