Vermicelles
Vermicelle or vermicelles (from Italian: vermicelli ' little worms') is a Swiss dessert made from chestnut puree. It originally comes from southern Switzerland , but is now produced and consumed throughout Switzerland.
Manufacturing
The mush is made from pureed chestnuts ( chestnuts ) boiled in milk and refined with butter or vegetable oil, syrup , kirsch and vanilla . For the typical shape, the chestnut mass is pressed through a perforated sheet with a vermicelle press, so that about 15 cm long spaghetti-like "worms" are created. Good vermicelle is creamy and tastes like chestnuts.
Serving variations
Vermicelle is eaten straight or on top of (also next to and under) whipped cream and meringue . Vermicelle tartlets are another variant. Here the vermicelle is served in a shortcrust pastry tart and decorated with whipped cream. The vermicelle cake consists of a shortcrust pastry or puff pastry base, with a wafer-thin spread of couverture , a thin bed of vanilla cream and a thick topping of vermicelle, decorated with whipped cream. The Coupe Nesselrode consists of vanilla ice cream, vermicelle, whipped cream and meringue.
distribution
During the autumn season, vermicelle is served in every better café and many restaurants in Switzerland. In the pastry shop or in the take-away in the supermarket, vermicelle is a standard offer. The chestnut puree is also prefabricated, frozen, filled in blocks or tubes, shrink-wrapped in plastic containers or sold in sausage-like casings in supermarkets all year round. In Germany, however, vermicelle is practically unknown. In Austria, the dish is known as chestnut rice.
See also
- Chestnut rice (Austria)
- Mont Blanc (dessert)
Web links
- Vermicelles in the database of Swiss culinary heritage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vermicelle-Törtli ( Memento of the original dated November 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ From creamy to dusty dry , SRF
- ↑ Dani Fohrler, Maja Brunner: What the Coupe Nesselrode has to do with world politics. Swiss Radio and Television SRF, November 12, 2015, accessed on October 31, 2018 .
