Everyone in my house already knows that I like to cook, ha ha, and I always try to learn new recipes with a preference for those that speak of tradition and home culture from our innumerable and diverse varieties of Italian cuisine, all unique and all worthy of admiration.
I follow famous chefs and pastry chefs on social media, and on the page of Rita Busalacchi I saw this recipe for reginella cookies with sesame without ammonia published and since I love sesame, I thought of making them in my kitchen.
Rita Busalacchi has an extraordinary resume: after graduating in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies in Palermo, she began her training at the prestigious Boscolo Etoile Academy.
She then collaborated with maestro Montersino, worked in France (with Christophe Michalak and Pierre Hermé), published books, is a teacher at the Eccelsa Institute, and was awarded as Top Italian Chef 2016!
How to prepare reginelle or reginella cookies?
I did a little research on the web, and these reginella cookies, also known as reginelle or queen or sesame cookies, are typical sweets from the province of Palermo that are often made with lard; ammonia is often used as a leavening agent, and sometimes saffron dissolved in milk is added to enhance the golden yellow color.
They are very simple and crispy, excellent for breakfast and as a snack, and I highly recommend them…
How long do reginella cookies with sesame last?
These fragrant cookies with sesame can be stored for a long time in an airtight container, and you should already make a double batch because they are delicious!!!!!!!!!
Other fragrant cookies include:
LEMON AND VANILLA COOKIES
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REGINELLA COOKIES WITH SESAME WITHOUT AMMONIA
ASI’s kitchen
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Inexpensive
- Rest time: 2 Hours
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 28 large cookies like the ones you see in the picture
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients for REGINELLA COOKIES WITH SESAME WITHOUT AMMONIA
- 2 cups All-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 1/3 cup Butter (or lard)
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 tbsp Milk
- to taste Lemon zest (1 organic lemon)
- 1 pinch Salt
- to taste Sesame seeds
Tools for REGINELLA COOKIES WITH SESAME WITHOUT AMMONIA
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- Food Scales
- Bowls
- Baking paper
FOR PREPARING THE REGINELLA COOKIES WITH SESAME WITHOUT AMMONIA
For this quick recipe for reginella cookies with sesame without ammonia
just weigh all the ingredients (flour, baking powder, sugar, eggs, lemon zest, pinch of salt, butter, and milk) and place them in a bowl.
Mix everything well to make a nice dough like for pastry and let it rest in the refrigerator for 2 hours, as the pastry chef recommends: I left it all night!
After the resting time, take the dough and make many small sausages about a finger thick and 1 1/2 inches long, which we will roll (I only do it on one side) in the golden sesame seeds.
I then lined a baking tray with parchment paper and arranged the reginella cookies with sesame without ammonia neatly and slightly apart from each other to avoid the risk of them all merging into a single cake during baking, oh no!!
Now we just bake our tray at 350°F for about 25 minutes or according to the characteristics of your appliance.
Let the reginella cookies with sesame without ammonia cool completely so they become nice and crunchy and very tasty!
Enjoy your meal!
Annalisa
