Calabrian Pignolata.
Simple, scenic, delicious.
Calabrian Pignolata is a very delicious dessert prepared during the Christmas holidays and Carnival, a traditional typical dessert very simple to prepare, beautiful to look at and delicious to taste.
Try it, it will captivate you at the first bite 🙂
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- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Rest time: 30 Minutes
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 6People
- Cooking methods: Frying
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Carnival, Christmas
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1.75 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon limoncello
- zest of 1 lemon (untreated)
- 1 pinch salt
- 5 oz wildflower honey
- grated zest of 1 lemon (untreated)
- colored sprinkles
Steps
Place the eggs in a bowl and beat them lightly.
Add a pinch of salt and the flour, start mixing with a fork, then as soon as the dough takes shape, add the limoncello, and mix again.
Flour a work surface, pour the dough onto it, and knead it by hand until smooth and compact. At this point, wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes.
Put the eggs in the bowl 20 secvel 2.
Add the flour and a pinch of salt 1 minutespiga.
Add the limoncello and work 3 minutesspiga.
Flour a work surface, pour the dough onto it, and knead it by hand until it becomes smooth and compact. At this point, wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes.
Cut small pieces from the dough, roll them into very thin sausages with your hands, and cut them into tiny pieces, placing them spaced apart on a lightly floured cloth.
Once all the pignolata is ready, we can proceed to cooking.
Heat abundant vegetable oil in a high-sided pan, and once the oil reaches temperature (340°F), fry the dough pieces few at a time and let them brown on all sides, mixing often with a slotted spoon (it will take about 2 minutes).
Once browned, remove them from the oil and let them dry on frying paper.
Once all are cooked and cool, place them in a bowl without the paper, and we can prepare the honey glaze.In a pan on the stove, slightly heat the honey, turn off the heat, and add the grated lemon zest.
Pour the honey over the pignolata and gently and quickly mix them to glaze everything evenly.Transfer the pignolata onto a tray and shape it into a ring as seen in the photo.
Then decorate with colored sprinkles as desired.
Let it rest a bit, then you can serve it.
Calabrian Pignolata is ready to be enjoyed… Enjoy your dessert!
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