Pastiera napoletana

   Here's a typical Neapolitan recipe, in this case a Easter cake but always appreciated in other times of the year and holidays.
Keep bailing out the grain in water for two or three days, then drain in a saucepan, cover with water and lessarlo for about 1 hour.
Meanwhile prepare the dough in the following way: knead the pastry flour with sugar, lard, 3 egg yolks and a pinch of salt. Work the dough that enough to make it well, then let it stand even in a dry place fesco.
   After that you can prepare the filling: drain the wheat from the cooking water, place back into the saucepan, varsatevi above the milk and add two lemon rind, a pinch of cinnamon, 1/2 tablespoon of sugar and a pinch of salt and cook over moderate heat until complete reduction of milk.
At this point remove from heat and let cool. Then in a bowl, combine corn (eliminating the rind), ricotta passed to sieve, the rest remaining sugar, grated lemon, Citron, diced, cinnamon and orange flower water. Tie everything up to 4 egg yolks and with which you previously mounted to snow.
Roll out the pastry (a few mm) line a baking pan and pour the filling.
    Advanced with the dough obtained from strips have on the surface, as decoration.
Bake in preheated oven, and when the pasta is golden well will mean that our pasta ready to be removed from Moscow.
Let it cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Serve and enjoy the compliments of Diners!

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