Bicolored Strawberry Cheesecake

Vegetarian version with agar agar instead of fish glue

During the spring and the summer, when in the garden we get tasty strawberries, we propose this dessert to the guests of the restaurant here at Locanda Demetra and the success is granted.

In our family we always prepared some sort of cake based on cheeses: could have been ricotta, mascarpone or some sort of soft creamy cheese as “Philadelphia” or “caprino” (goat cheese). We kids we were so happy when we were served this treats as a “merenda” in the middle of the afternoon. I remember that my mom was sometimes adding also bread or flour in the cream to make it dense as the ancient Romans where doing in the past.

Everyone of us has preferences and secrets for the preparation but in this video we show you how to mount the two mascarpone creams without flour so to have it foamy and fresher.

We always prefer to use agar agar powder instead of fish glue so to make happy vegetarian guests too. Agar agar is a seaweed that we heat and melt with cream as a natural thickener.

Try do to it yourself and share with us the results

Buon Appetito!

INGREDIENTS

• 250 gr biscuits
• 110 gr butter
• 100 gr icing sugar
• 500 gr mascarpone
• 420 gr cream
• 8 gr agar agar
• 200 gr strawberries
• 10 strawberries