What is Gelato?

Gelato is an Italian frozen dessert, similar to ice cream. His ingredients include milk and sugar, often combined with aroma and fruit, chocolate, alcohol, spices or nuts. Unlike real ice cream, Gelato often does not contain cream and traditionally has a much lower fat content. The name is also sometimes used to indicate similar frozen desserts, which are prepared by a similar method. It is often compared to ice milk rather than ice cream. It is stored in a forced air freezer, differently from those freezers that store ice cream in American style. Some versions of Gelato are lower in fat and calories than traditional ice cream.

After the combination, Gelatato components are cooled; The resulting product contains small air, resulting in a denser and tastier dessert. The form made of water and without milk or soy milk is called sorbetto . Gelato is best administered fresh.Popular flavors include chocolate, hazelnut, pistachios, strawberries, lemon and vanilla combination, chocolate and nuts. Some recipes that include this frozen dessert are ice cream cake and spumoni.

Gelato spazzacamino contains ice cream, Scottish and espresso coffee beans. Gelato truffles are small balls covered with coconut or other topping. One recipe for American peach gelato contains fresh peaches, peeled and built; sugar; and Mascarpone, Crème Fraiche, or yogurt.

Traditionally, gelato recipes included eggs, but now they are not so commonly used, which are replaced by other stabilizers. The name itself comes from the Italian word gelare , which means freezing. Ice cream in Italy is known as Gelateria . Gelateria can combine a bar and a frozen dessert store or even bar and desserts and pastries.

Due to the softer structure can be gELATO easier to swirl or formed by a spatula than ice cream. In the United States, it cannot be classified as ice cream because it does not contain at least 10% butterfly that American food and drug administration requires ice cream.