Christmas Strufoli

Hello everyone!

Here is our first recipe.

Since Christmas is coming we are going to show you how to make a tipical italian dessert: the Strufoli !

The ingriedients you need are:

• Fondamental ingridient is a jar of Honey;
• Some candied fruit;
• 1 Kilo of semolina flour;
• 1 Hectogram of Olive Oil;
• 150 Grams of sugar;
• 10 Grams of brewer's yeast;
• 1 Orange;
• A pinch of salt;
• A spoon of orange brandy;
• Some sugary grains;
• Some chocolate chips;
• (Optional) Pine nuts.

 

Steps

First step: Fry the skin of an orange in a pan with oil and let cool down.

Second step: on a work surface, pour the semolina flour, the sugar, the brewer's yeast, the salt, a spoon of orange brandy and the olive oil flavoured with orange peel.

NOTE: Don't pour the orange peel too ! :D

Third step:  Mix well to obtain a homogeneus compost.

 Fourth step: Cut the pieces of the compound to obtain, working it with slight movements of the hands, an elongated cylindrical compound (as you can see in the picture).

 Fifth step: Cut into small pieces, not too small but not too big.

Sixth step: fry in hot oil (olive oil or peanut oil seeds) the pieces of dough obtained.

Let the fry until they get a golden color.

Seventh step: pour the entire jar of honey in a pan.

Then mix the pieces fried with honey and candied fruit.

NOTE: moderate heat to melt the honey well.

It takes just a few minutes.

 Eighth step: Pour into a serving dish and garnish with sugar grains and chocolate chips or even with pine nuts, if you like.

That's all ! Hope you'll enjoy it ! :)