Christmas

Finger

Great for your appetizers and a delicious ingredient when cooking

GROK is the new way of interpreting the taste of traditional Grana Padano cheese, famous worldwide. GROK is a unique product made with Grana Padano cheese, oven baked and not fried, tasty and nutritious, with no added preservatives nor additives. GROK is produced using only selected Grana Padano cheese wheels and is obtained by extracting the humidity present in the cheese, through a special and patented baking process that makes it both crispy and crunchy. The result is a delicious and naturally healthy product with a typical Italian flavour!

Paolo Barichella
Paolo Barichella is the creator of the Finger Christmas recepies presented in this booklet. Opinion leader, theorist on Food Design philosophy, journalist and writer, lecturer and teaching consultant, speaker and testimonial at international conferences; mastermind of formats and business philosophies connecting people to food. Throughout his activity as Food Designer, he has kept close relationships with some of the worlds cuisine and pastry masters, learning their techniques and secrets, their approach to excellence, dedication and respect for their work. These values are the pillars of his Effective Cooking concept: a combination of methods which aim at achieving the best result with the least possible effort, theories also applied for the recipes in this booklet.

Ten Grokking Finger Food Recipes

Modern society calls for finger food even during the Season Holidays: an occasion to celebrate them standing, whilst not forgetting traditional values. Grok Finger Food recipes are ideal as appetizers for a holiday dinner or an elegant entre when sitting around the table. Or, why not, a new way to enjoy a Christmas cocktail party with all ones friends! Ingredients and classical dishes prepared in miniature size, perfectly balanced, tailored for the protagonist of the occasion: Grana Padano cheese turned into a crispy and practical morsel thanks to Grok. GROK thus becomes an ideal ingredient in traditional Holiday Season Dinners, or just simply any moment one wishes for an appetizing Grokking snack.

Grok Flame
Ingredients 6 dried tomatoes in oil 1 jar of black olives pt 12 pitted black olives 12 GROK Gusto Classico

with chopped dried tomatoes

Preparation Place the dried tomatoes on a sheet of blotting paper in order to dry the oil in excess. Cut the tomatoes in small pieces and place them on a Grok forming the base. Add a small spoonful of black olives pt and place half an olive on top with the whole upwards. Cut a stripe of tomato and place it inside the whole of the olive creating a flame trimming.

Quantity: serves 12 GROK fingers

Grok Nut
Ingredients 30g of sliced Speck 1 jar of nut sauce Shelled nuts 12 GROK with Cereals

speck and nut sauce

Preparation Place the slices of speck on a cutting board and with the help of a knife cut the speck forming small squares. Place the squares of speck on the GROK and with the help of a sac poche add the nut sauce onto the speck. Break the shelled nuts in quarters and use them as a trimming on each GROK.

Quantity: serves 12 GROK fingers

Hot Grok
Ingredients 1 jar of Cremonese mustard with mixed fruit 36 GROK Gusto Deciso

with hot Cremonese mustard

Preparation Pick out each fruit type from the jar and let it drip dry. Cut the different fruits in small cubes and mix them in order to obtain a multicolor effect. Place the small colored cubes on the GROK

Quantity: serves 36 GROK fingers

Persian Grok
Ingredienti 4 mature dates Pistachios in grain 12 GROK Gusto Classico

with chopped dates and pistachios

Preparation Take the pit out of the dates Cut the dates in very small cubes and mix them with the pistachios in grain. Place the mixture on the GROK

Quantity: serves 12 GROK fingers

Soft Grok
Ingredients 1 leek Chives 2 spoons of potato puree powder 12 GROK Gusto Classico

with leek, potato puree and chives

Preparation Slice the leek in roundels approximately 5mm thick. From the roundel of the leak choose a ring of approximately the size of a GROK and place it on top. Boil half a glass of water in the microwave. Take it out, add the potato puree powder and stir it quickly. Fill the leek ring the puree. Garnish with the chives sliced in small roundels.

Quantity: serves 12 GROK fingers

Grok Strudel
Ingredients 1 red apple Cinnamon in powder 1 spoonful of brown sugar 1 spoonful of rum 36 cloves 36 GROK with Cereals

with red apples and cinnamon

Preparation Slice the apple in small cubes keeping the skin. Saut the apple cubes in a nonstick saucepan with a spoonful of sugar. Add a spoonful of rum and make it evaporate. Cook for a few minutes until you obtain a syrup. Place a few apple cubes on top of each GROK and sprinkle them with a bit of cinnamon. Trim with a clove in the center.
Quantity: serves 36 GROK fingers

Easy Grok
Ingredients 30g of sliced cured ham 1 jar of green olives without pits 1 tube of mayonnaise 12 GROK Gusto Classico

with ham,olives and mayonnaise

Preparation Place the slices of ham on a cutting board and with the help of a round biscuit cutter, form the necessary disks. Put 2 slices of ham on top of each GROK. Slice the green olives in roundels and place one olive roundel on top of the ham. Fill the whole of the olive with mayonnaise.

Quantity: serves 12 GROK fingers

Grok alla Carbonara

Ingredients 1 pack of thinly sliced bacon 1 egg Black pepper 12 GROK Gusto Deciso

with eggs, bacon and black pepper

Preparation Fry the bacon on a nonstick saucepan until it becomes crispy. Whisk the egg in a saucer and cook it in the same saucepan used for frying the bacon. With the help of a round biscuit cutter form 12 disks from the omelette you just obtained. Place each disk onto a GROK and position a few pieces of crispy bacon on top. Grind the black pepper on top of each GROK.
Quantity: serves 12 GROK fingers

Snob Grok
Ingredients 1 egg 1 jar of truffle sauce 1 jar of sliced Black Truffle 12 GROK Gusto Classico

with an omelette and Truffle sauce

Preparation Whisk an egg in a saucer and cook it in a nonstick saucepan. With the help of a round biscuit cutter form 12 omelette disks. Place each omelette disk onto a GROK. Lay a small spoonful of truffle sauce on each GROK and garnish with a slice of Black Truffle

Quantity: serves 12 GROK fingers

Happy New Grok

Ingredients 1 cotechino (large pork sausage) 1 jar of small lentils leek, black pepper and rosemary glass of Italian spumante 36 GROK Gusto Deciso

with lentils, boiled sausage and Italian spumante

Preparation Boil the sausage. In the meantime, drip dry the lentils, slice the leeks and bake them together for a few minutes in a nonstick saucepan, adding half a glass of Italian spumante. Grind the black pepper and the thinly chopped rosemary on to the lentils. Take the sausage out of the boiling water and cut it into thin slices. With the help of a round biscuit cutter obtain the sausage disks and place them on top of each GROK. Using a small spoon, place the lentils on top of the sausage. Garnish with a few rosemary leaves.
Quantity: serves 36 GROK fingers

best wishes

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