Traditional New Year's treat of Italians: baked goods

Biscotti

We offer you a traditional Italian New Year's dish, which is served with any dessert wine. You will need such ingredients:

• 3 eggs


• 250 g of sugar


• 190 ml of sunflower oil


• 2 tsp. anise


• 700 gr of flour


• 2 tsp. soda


• 0.5 tsp. salt


• 250 g crushed almonds or walnuts

Eggs are well beaten to a homogeneous mass, thengradually added to them sugar and sunflower oil. Anis should be crushed slightly and also added to the egg mixture. Flour, soda and salt are mixed together and gradually poured into the egg mixture, continuing to whisk until smooth. There also add nuts.

The finished dough is spread on the baking tray. Form a thin strip of dough 5-7 mm thick, 2 cm wide. Bake the dough in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 375 ° C.

After 20 minutes, the baking is removed from the oven,cool for 2 minutes and cut into thin sticks. The pieces are turned over and baked again at 375 ° C for 10 minutes until the baking turns golden brown.

Chicherata

The New Year's menu can not be considered complete without dessert. Therefore, we offer you to cook for the dessert the traditional New Year treat of Italians to chicera. To prepare such a New Year's Italian dessert, You will need the following ingredients:

• 6 egg whites


• 1.3 kg of flour


• 12 egg yolks


• 1/4 tsp. salt


• 650 ml of olive oil


• 180 ml of aniseed liqueur


• 250 gr toasted chopped almonds


• 250 g candied fruits


• freshly squeezed juice of 8 oranges


• 700 ml of honey


• peel of 4 oranges


• multi-colored decoration

Egg whites are beaten until white foam forms. Separately mix the dough with flour mixer, egg yolks, salt, 180 ml of olive oil, aniseed liqueur and sugar. Whipped egg whites are gently introduced into the dough and mixed with a wooden spoon. The resulting dough should be soft and elastic. If the dough is too liquid, you can add a little flour. If too dry, add a little liquor.

The resulting dough is cut into small piecesthe size of chick peas (chick peas) and roll into small balls. In the frying pan, the remaining amount of olive oil is heated to 325 ° C. At this temperature, the dough is fried until golden. Spread the fried balls on a paper towel to remove excess oil. The dough is placed on 8 serving plates. Top with almonds and finely chopped candied fruits.

In a separate saucepan, heat the orange juice andadd honey to it. A zest of oranges, cut into strips, is added to the juice with honey. The resulting sauce is watered every portion of the dessert. Top with a multicolored decoration. The finished dessert is left to cool at room temperature. The Italian New Year's dessert is ready!

Struffoli

We offer you one more traditional Italian dessert - stofolli. For its preparation you will need such ingredients:

For the test:

• 400 gr of flour


• 4 eggs


• 1 tsp. vodka


• 25 g of oil


• 1 tbsp. l. Sahara


• a peel of half a lemon and an orange


• salt


• olive oil for frying

For seasoning:

• 300 g of honey


• 150 g of sugar


• 80 ml of water


• 50 g of candied almonds


• 4 canned cherries


• 50 g of candied fruits from orange, lemon and melon

Knead soft dough, cover it with a towel,so that it will stay at least an hour. From the dough thin thin flagellum with a thickness of little finger is rolled out, which is cut into small pieces about 1 cm long. The pieces of the dough are fried in warmed olive oil. Finished pieces are removed and allow excess oil to drain.

In the wok (Chinese frying pan)put honey, sugar and pour water. All is well mixed until a uniform syrup is formed. Such a syrup should be heated until the foam on it begins to turn yellow. Reduce heat to a minimum. Now in the syrup, put the candied fruits and ready-made pieces of stringoni. All ingredients are mixed well in a pan, then immediately shifted to the dish in which they will serve.

While the dessert is hot, they give it a wreath. In order not to burn yourself, hands should be dipped very often in cold water. On top of the potatoes sprinkle with candied almonds and decorate with cherries. This dessert can be stored for a whole week, but only on condition that it is covered. By the way, the longer the dessert is, the better its taste becomes.

We hope that these recipes of New Year's dishes from Italy will please you, and You will surprise all guests with their culinary skills!