Culinary Medicine on Rai2
On "Medicina 33"
Wellness comes into the homes of Italians thanks to a dedicated weekly column within Medicina 33, the TG2 special dedicated to health and wellness, hosted by Laura Berti.
I teach Culinary Medicine at the University of Ferrara and founded the first Academy in Europe of Culinary Medicine: Cucina Evolution Academy.
In the Rubrica on Rai2, together with the chefs of the Libra Restaurant in Bologna we create mouth-watering recipes from the Italian tradition, reformulated to ensure well-being at the table, thanks to cooking and processing secrets.
Longevity Ragù
An enveloping fragrance, the authentic taste of Italian cuisine and. a treat for your well-being! A ragout 50% lean meat, 50% vegetables, with no added fat in cooking and the antioxidant power of tomato lycopene.Extra virgin oil? Only raw, to protect vitamin E!
Tri-color cannelloni
With ricotta, spinach and 30-36 month aged Parmigiano Reggiano for a flavorful filling with very little salt. Wrapped in fiber-rich green pasta and topped with a butter-free but flavor-filled béchamel sauce, these cannelloni are enriched with a simple tomato sauce.A satiating portion with fewer calories than 100g of plain rice with oil, perfect for nourishing the intestinal microflora and boosting the immune system...with flavor!
Centennial Schnitzel: with less fat than 2 tablespoons of evo oil!
A crispy, mouthwatering, light fry that not only isn't fattening, but even absorbs less fat than a simple tablespoon of raw oil! The real trick to a fry that isn't fattening? Freeze before frying! That way the water evaporates right away and the oil doesn't get in-the cutlet stays crispy, dry, and super light! We fry only in high oleic sunflower oil at 160°C, never in a frying pan, and dry well with super-absorbent paper towels. Only 228 kcal, zero grease and lots of satisfaction
Neapolitan Pastiera: Light Gluten- and Lactose-Free Recipe!
A traditional treat, now light, inclusive and guilt-free! With 50 percent fewer calories than the classic version, less sugar than an orange slice, and no gluten or lactose, this pastiera is an ode to taste and wellness! Thanks to fiber-rich whole grain sorghum, it lowers the glycemic index, while honey sweetens with less sugar and more flavor. The shortbread with extra virgin olive oil, rice flour and corn flour is ready to roll out immediately, no waiting.
Raspberry and Ricotta Soufflé: Sweet Without Regrets
Made with lactose-free ricotta cheese, it is also ideal for intolerant people, and thanks to its natural sweetness allows us to reduce added sugar. Integral spelt adds fibre and crunchiness, while raspberry, rich in polyph
Healthy Crepes: Taste with Less Sugar and More Fibre
A light, delicious sweet with less sugar and more fibre than an orange. Thanks to the legumes flour, it is rich in protein without eggs, while the cream "Melagodo" combines the natural sweetness of apple with cocoa polyphenols, without dairy products for opt
Cauliflower Gnocchi: Simple, Tasty and Light
Thanks to the use of cauliflower instead of potatoes, the dish has fewer calories and more fiber, being more digestible and satiating. The addition of legumes flour not only gives flavor, but allows you to avoid salt, making the recipe ideal for those who follow a controlled diet.The seasoning is very simple and tasty: a cream of cauliflower with lemon peel and chili, tha
Light guacamole
A special version of guacamole combines the taste of avocado with the freshness of low-fat yogurt, making it lighter and rich in beneficial ferments for the intestine. Avocado is a precious fruit: without sugars, with many good fats and vitamin E, it is great for health. To balance the calories, we mix it with yogurt without added sugars. We then add tomato, onion, lemon juice and herbs for a fresh and irresistible taste.
Delicious, fiber- and folate-rich spread
with ten times less sugar and five times less saturated fat than the industrial versions. The secret? Peeled chickpeas, an extraordinary source of folates and prebiotic fibres, which stimulate the production of butyrate, essential for intestinal well-being and longevity. This cream is without added sugars and totally gluten free and lactose free.
Light Broccoli Tacos
Do you want a tasty but light dish? Try these tacos with broccoli cream, anchovies and chili! A perfect idea for dinner in the cronodieta, with only 250 kcal, rich in fiber, folates and bioactive molecules that are good for health.
Gorgonzola, Artichokes and Hazelnuts Risotto
Thanks to two basic tricks - salting at the beginning and stir only with gorgonzola - we get a tasty risotto but with fewer calories than a simple white rice with oil. The combination of Carnaroli rice with artichokes lowers the glycemic index, while turmeric and black pepper add anti-inflammatory benefits.The final touch? Toasted hazelnuts and pink pepper berries for crispness and color. A beautiful dish to look at, good to eat and perfect for h
Light Zucchini and Scamorza Omelet: Easy Recipe
An irresistible, soft and light omelette with fewer calories than two eggs! Thanks to the oven cooking, no oil, only one egg per serving and the special mix of turmeric and pepper, which enhances the flavor and helps the line. The warm milk gives volume, while the light breadcrumbs gives the perfect final crunch. Ready in a few minutes, delicious and healthy... To try now!
Crunchy Vegetable Chips: Easy, Tasty and Healthy!
Who said that a healthy snack can’t be irresistible? These black cabbage and kale chips are a real surprise: crunchy, light and incredibly tasty! Perfect to replace the classic c
Bechamel with LESS FAT than a spoonful of oil
Grilled vegetables with cauliflower sauce: light and amazing taste! A dish that combines goodness, health and creativity: gratinated vegetables wrapped in a creamy bechamel... but with a twist!
Light Mustard: Chestnut Flour Recipe for Christmas
Gluten-free, lactose-free, with castagne flour and buckwheat, Naturally sweetened and coated with dark chocolate without sugar. Light, delicious and perfect for the holidays. Try them too and bring to the table a sweet good to live.
3 Light Sauces for Boiled Food
Scorpri how to make three light and tasty sauces, perfect to accompany the Christmas Boiled Food: a cocktail sauce, a green sauce and a tonnata sauce. I have chosen simple and low-fat ingredients, so you can enjoy them without guilt.
Imperial Soup: Traditional Emilia Romagna Recipe
A Christmas recipe with defatted broth, semolina, albumen and Parmigiano Reggiano. Perfect for a healthy, tasty and easy to prepare dish.
Pumpkin & ginger velouté
A winter appetizer also suitable for Christmas.Perfect for everyone: gluten-free, lactose-free and 100% vegan. A real warm cuddle, perfect for young and old. All blessings of ginger and pumpkin, boosted in a synergy that warms the heart and strengthens the immune system.
Focaccia con Meno Grassi e Più Fibre di un'insalatona
Today I’ll tell you a recipe that will revolutionize your way of cooking: less fat, more fiber, very little salt and a little trick to avoid those harmful crusts, but without giving up the crunchiness. With wholemeal flour, crispy seeds and a pinch of manitoba, you can create light, nutritious treats to personalize as you like.
Grilled meat not grilled
Grilling without grilling: the secret to a healthy and tasty barbecue! Find out how to prepare a lean pork fillet with all the flavor of the grill, without flame and without compromise for your health. Accompanied by a delicious homemade barbecue sauce with carrots and aromatic spices, this dish will surprise you at every bite. Intense taste, zero carcinogens and zero guilt!
Simple, Healthy Omelet in Just 4 Minutes
Do you know that cooking eggs the right way can do wonders for your hair? We prepare a special omelet, rich in biotin, with only four ingredients: eggs, spinach, milk and a delicious smoked scamorza. Thanks to a little cooking trick, we can maximize the absorption of this precious vitamin, ideal for beauty and hair strength, and keep the dish super light and satiating.
Apulian octopus recipe: selenium and softness
This ancient recipe is a concentrate of flavour and health: octopus, tomatoes, Tropea onion, Parsley and a touch of extra virgin olive oil. With a slow cooking at low temperature, the octopus releases all its nutrients and then reabsorbs them, giving us a unique taste and incredibly soft dish.
Delicious Pumpkin Flan
Enjoy a delicious, well-being-packed pumpkin flan! With calcium to strengthen the bones, turmeric that enhances the mood and carotenoids that illuminate the skin, this dish is a real elixir of vitality. Prepare it in a few minutes with simple ingredients such as pumpkin, ricotta, eggs and almonds, and surprise everyone with an explosion of flavor. Only 4 minutes to the microwave for a flan healthy, tasty and ready to pamper you. Try to believe!
Defatted Sausage: Light and Tasty Recipe
Transform your dinner with a light polenta and defatted sausage, a perfect blend of taste and health! This dish reduces fat by 50% thanks to microwave degreasing, keeping the authentic taste intense
Fried Fennel with Light Béchamel
Enjoy the experience of a light, healthy and tasty fennel gratin. This tasty dish combines childhood memories and tradition with a fat-free béchamel enriched with seasoned parmigiano reggiano and a note of turmeric. A healthy dish that celebrates authentic flavours with a modern twist
Light and autumnal risotto
A light risotto that not only activates the metabolism thanks to vitamins of group B, But it allows you to eat healthily without sacrificing taste. Thanks to the Parmigiano Reggiano cheese aged 30 months and a touch of roasted pine nuts, this dish will be an explosion of flavor and well-being for you, your family and your guests at the table!
Light Caponatina
The Super Recipe of Star Chef Paolo Cappuccio! A very healthy, appetizing, fun, high in fiber and low in fat recipe to keep fat at bay. The recipe is good for the liver and a cure for gallstones.
Healthy and delicious ice cream stick
A delicious ice cream stick made with low-fat yogurt, bananas and 80% dark chocolate: a tasty and healthy snack, low in calories, rich in probiotics and prebiotic fiber, which helps to keep abdominal bloating at bay and supports the balance of intestinal microflora.
Light parmesan aubergines
A vegetarian dish can be protein and well balanced! Together with chef Ermanno Zago we prepare a traditional dish, perfect for vegetarians and those who have gluten intolerance, the eggplant parmigiana!
Vegan and gluten-free burgers
For burger day, together with chef Ermanno Zago, we made a vegan burger, gluten-free and lactose-free. Suitable for everyone, it is a delicious way to make the children eat legumes.
Sicilian cold pasta
Making a gut-friendly recipe has never been easier! We prepare a traditional Sicilian recipe, pasta with beans, fennel and ricotta, but with a touch of innovation.
Stuffed tomatoes
Making a heart-friendly recipe has never been easier! We prepare together the stuffed tomatoes, a traditional recipe, but with a bit of innovation.Usually filled with anything today we prepare them with taggiasca olives, lemon and basil.
Fish sticks
Making children love fish is easy with fish sticks. We prepare them together, accompanying them with homemade ketchup so that they are healthy and tasty. It takes very few ingredients and a few steps to make a delicious dish suitable for all ages.
Fuchsia muffin with vegetables
Making vegetables palatable for children is not easy. Try these pink beetroot and cauliflower muffins, they are delicious and will love them, both young and old.
Roman artichokes
The typical Roman outline for how it is cooked has a high fat content, given by the oil. Fats, although beneficial as those of extra virgin olive oil, in excess are harmful and inflammatory. We make artichokes with all the taste of tradition but less than half the calories.
Porcini Lasagne
Lasagna with fewer calories than a white rice dish, how is that possible? Find out in the recipe video. This lasagna is also vegetarian, we used the fresh green pasta typical bolognese.
Delicious salmon, scamorza and zucchini pie
Only the union between the art of chefs and science creates tasty and healthy dishes! Here is a delicious smoked salmon pie, scamorza and zucchini to enrich your taste and benefit your dish.
The minestrone in 6 minutes
Let’s learn how to make the minestrone delicious! A healthy and health-friendly dish. Easy but above all fast because it takes only 6 minutes to cook. This way the vegetables will keep all their taste, without losing vitamins.
Orecchiette with turnip tops
A traditional Pugliese recipe made by our Pugliese chef Rita. The recipe is easy and can be a great idea to get your fill of vitamins.
Lentil cappuccino
This recipe is an idea to present legumes in a curious and delicious way. You will be amazed by the delicacy and lightness of this dish that comes in a cup, with a sprinkling of cocoa, it is tasty and rich in taste.
Inside the tortello
Vegetables annoy us, but they are essential for our gut! At Benessere in Cucina we saw how to prepare spinach in a healthy and tasty way, like the filling of the tortello emiliano!
Apple pie with more fibre and less sugar than an apple
Together with chef Rita we saw how to make a tasty but above all healthy cake, thanks to the use of a secret ingredient... find out!
Cotechino low fat: more taste and less calories
New Year’s Eve don’t give up Cotechino, Learn how to cook it with scientific techniques to reduce its fat content and increase its taste. I explained it on Rai 2 to Medicine 33, with the rubric Wellness in Kitchen
The pignolata with low glycemic index
We prepare a typical Christmas cake with less sugar and more fiber than an apple: the Pignolata.A traditional dessert, but with an ingredient of Evolution and a technique to increase the sweetness of honey without adding additional sugars. On RAI 2, the Antiaging recipe of pignolata (or struffoli) was aired.
Fried artichokes: the outline of longevity that everyone likes.
On the screens of Rai 2 I prepared a frying with less fat than a spoonful of oil, for a Christmas in great shape! A delicious recipe, rich in vitamins and fiber, find out how to make it.
Pumpkin, salmon and pomegranate risotto for Christmas.
You don’t know what to prepare for Christmas lunch? We prepare a risotto pumpkin, salmon and pomegranate, rich in vitamins and very light thanks to 3 little secrets! On Rai 2 I made the recipe with less fat than a 100g mozzarella, for a Christmas in great shape!
Scalopinata con besciamella di porri
Tired of the usual chicken fillet not well seasoned? We prepare a scalopina rich in taste and fiber thanks to a delicious leek besciamella.On Rai 2 I made a recipe with fewer calories than a mozzarellina 100g and a taste that brings happiness!
Genovese chickpea flour
A delicious chickpea flour, typical of the Ligurian tradition, reformulated to have half the fat and 5 times less salt. It seems incredible to be able to enjoy a single dish, but also useful as a snack by reducing the portion, with less calories and more fiber than a dish with 100g of Venus rice.
Cabbages!
We prepared a pressure friendly risotto because it was made with the cauliflower, Mixed with EVO oil and a heart of dark chocolate. A daily consumption of 5 g of dark chocolate, in fact, helps to keep the pressure at bay.
Mela-Godo the pressure-friendly custard
Mela-godo is the pressure-friendly custard with only 59 kcal because it is made of Apple and Cocoa. With extreme ease and in no time you can bring to the table a delicious dessert with very few ingredients.
5 healthy and tasty salad dressings
We make 5 seasonings to make the salad a delicious food without adding too much fat or salt to season this healthy food.
NOT ultra processed hamburger
This burger with less salt, less sugar and less fat is very easy to make, In fact, it only takes 5 minutes to make a delicious but above all healthy dish.
Carbonara rich in prebiotic fibers
A Carbonara with less calories than 100 g of rice in white with 1 tablespoon of oil. Rich in prebiotic fibers, it is an ally of longevity, shape and health. Prebiotic fibers, in fact, nourish our beneficial microflora, supporting the immune system, and allow a "discount on calories", avoiding the glycemic peak with the intake of carbohydrates.
3 ways to cook fish in 4 minutes
Does cooking fish put you to the test? Follow me in the section Wellness in Kitchen on Rai 2 and we make three fast recipes, which cook themselves in just 4 minutes. Each recipe is rich in Omega 3 and nutritional properties.
Variegated breakfast cake on Rai 2
Healthy and fit breakfasts that are rich in sugars and fat? Here is the solution, a tasty variegato chocolate donut with very little sugar and fat but many fibers. Very easy and with all the ingredients you have at home.
Amatriciana amica della pelle e del dimagrimento
Il licopene neutralizza il radicale libero ossigeno singoletto ed è il carotenoide ad azione antiossidante che conferisce il colore rosso, al pomodoro; al fine di renderlo biodisponibile è importante cuocere la passata di pomodoro. Prepariamo insieme un'amatriciana con pochissimi grassi e ricca di licopene, grazie alla prolungata cottura del pomodoro.
Mousse al cioccolato e i benefici sulla pressione
ll cioccolato è un alimento ricchissimo di polifenoli, sostanze bioattive con azione cardio protettiva, abbassa la pressione, contribuisce a ridurre il deposito di colesterolo sulle pareti dei vasi sanguigni ma non dev’essere mai abbinato con la caseina, in quanto la proteina del latte impedisce l’assorbimento intestinale dei polifenoli. Prepariamo insieme una mousse con meno di 10 g di zuccheri e 4 g di grassi, per un totale di 90 kcal.
Vitel Tonnè contro l'anemia
Per chi soffre di anemia, ma non solo, è importante integrare la dieta con ferro biodisponibile per il nostro organismo. Oltre che nella carne, il ferro è contenuto nel pesce e nel latte ma il suo assorbimento intestinale è favorito dall'abbinamento con la vitamina C. Impara come preparare una salsa tonnata, da servire con la carne ma anche con le verdure, ricca di ferro e vitamina C con pochi grassi e calorie.
Ridurre i grassi e i livelli di colesterolo con le arancine siciliane
Ecco come realizzarle per arricchire la dieta di fibre solubili e ridurne drasticamente i grassi, grazie all'inserimento di piselli e alla panatura con cous cous.L’ipercolesterolemia può essere un fattore congenito, oltre che legato alla dieta. Ma anche chi ne soffre in modo congenito può ridurlo fino al 30%, ridurrcendo i grassi saturi, gli zuccheri semplici e con una dieta ricca di fibre solubili, che si trovano anche nei legumi.
Pesto Antiaging: una vera bomba antiossidante
L'abbinamento vitamina E + vitamina C è una vera e propria “bomba antiossidante” per combattere l’invecchiamento cellulare. La Vit C riattiva il potere antiossidante della Vit E, entrambe presenti negli ingredienti tradizionali del pesto, si ossidano a causa dell’aumento della temperatura dovuto all’azione meccanica.
Panna cotta senza zucchero né dolcificanti
Realizziamo la panna cotta con meno kcal di uno yogurt alla frutta, senza zucchero nè dolcificanti, sfruttando la naturale dolcezza di panna e latte senza lattosio. I prodotti delattosati hanno un potere dolcificante 3 volte maggiore rispetto ai prodotti con lattosio, a parità di quantità di zucchero totale.
Macco anti colon irritabile
I legumi, se si soffre di colon irritabile, non devono essere eliminati. Ecco come gustare un macco, super goloso e anti infiammazione. Il segreto sta nello sbucciare le fave e frullarle molto finemente.
Un ricetta con pochissime calorie e grassi ma piena di gusto.
Dimagrire mangiando di più: il risotto ai funghi Il dimagrimento può sottoporre a stress psicologico e carenze alimentari. Una soluzione è sfruttare lo sconto sulle calorie dato dalle fibre solubili che rallentano l'assorbimento dei carboidrati (riducendo l'indice glicemico) e in parte riducendo l'assorbimento energetico.
Le vitamine alleate della forma fisica
I legumi sono ricchi di vitamine del gruppo B, che ci aiutano a mantenere la linea perché ci permettono di trasformare il cibo in energia. Tra queste, l’acido folico (vitamina B9) è particolarmente importante per proteggere il nostro DNA, per le donne in età fertile e per la salute del feto.
Cacio e pepe antiaging
Prepariamo la Cacio e Pepe con un ingrediente segreto: il cavolfiore, in grado di esaltare il sapore del pecorino, riducendone la quantità impegnata, senza andare a perdere in gusto grazie al sapore e odore intenso dato dagli isotiocianati, molecole dalle importanti proprietà antitumorali.
Quando il fritto può essere meglio del bollito
Sapevi che il fritto è uno dei metodi di cottura migliore per preservare vitamine e sali minerali naturalmente presenti negli alimenti? Realizziamo insieme un fritto croccante e gustoso, senza a acrilammide e con pochissimi grassi. Scopri i segreti guardando il video.
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