Muffins with mild provolone and baked ham

We pair this moderately difficult recipe with a Sicilia Viognier Viafrancia 2021 Baglio di Pianetto.

Ingredients for 4 people:

250g 00 flour, 1 packet yeast, 190ml milk, 2 eggs, 2g salt, 70ml vegetable oil, 100g baked ham in a single slice, 200g fresh spring peas, 180g mild provolone Valpadana PDO and fresh thyme.

Directions:

Cut the ham and cheese into small cubes.

Shuck the peas and blanch them in salted water for 5 minutes then drain and keep to the side.

Use a bowl to mix together the flour, yeast and salt and then keep for use later.

Beat the eggs in another bowl then add the milk and oil and mix together well.

Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ones and use a whisk to mix well before adding the ham, peas and cheese.

Add in the leaves of three thyme sprigs, mix everything together and then pour the mixture into a mold for 12 muffins with paper liners. Bake for around 20 minutes at 180°C.

Remove the mold from the oven, take the muffins out from their liners and let cool on a grate.

Serve lukewarm.

Wine to paird:

(by Stefania Vinciguerra)

Sicilia Viognier Riserva Viafrancia 2021 Baglio di Pianetto

Fairly deep straw yellow color. The nose recalls ripe yellow and tropical fruit such as pineapple, the freshness of pittosporum and sweet spices with vanilla in evidence. Fresh and round taste, good volume, with a characteristic saline note on the finish.

Production area: Pianetto Estate, Santa Cristina Gela, Palermo (PA). Viognier grows in limestone, medium-textured soils at approx. 650 meters a.s.l.

Grape variety: Organic Viognier.

Harvest: Beginning of September.

Vinification: After the grapes are quality-selected and picked by hand, the berries are gently pressed. The must gravity-settles in steel tanks, then goes to oak casks for fermentation. Maturation follows, for 9 months sur lie in once- and twice-used oak barrels, then the finest lots are selected and spend an additional time in steel preceding bottling. 

Serving temperature: 8°C.

Suggested food pairings: herbed salmon au gratin and with lighter dishes of poultry and veal. 

THIS RECIPE IS OFFERED BY BAGLIO DI PIANETTO

Related Products