Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, struffoli. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Struffoli is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Struffoli is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis. Using a large spoon or damp hands, arrange the struffoli and hazelnuts around the glass to form a wreath shape. Struffoli are small doughnuts coated in a honey glaze, formed into a tower-shape, and coated with nonpareil sprinkles according to Italian tradition.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have struffoli using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Struffoli:
- Make ready 341 g Unbleached All Purpose Flour,
- Get 3/4 TSP Baking Powder,
- Get Pinch Sea Salt,
- Prepare 80 g Unsalted Butter,
- Get Fresh Orange Zest, 1 Orange
- Prepare 17 g Demerara Sugar,
- Prepare 16 g Light Muscovado Sugar,
- Get 3 TBSP Cointreau,
- Get 3 Eggs,
- Take Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil, For Frying
- Get 200 g Pure Honey,
- Prepare 1 Handful Almond Flakes,
- Get Sprinkles, For Garnishing
- Prepare Maraschino Cherries, For Garnishing
Struffoli are to the Neapolitan Christmas what pumpkin pie is to the American Thanksgiving. Struffoli is said to date back to the Greeks in the time of Partenope, but when it became a Christmas. This struffoli recipe from Veruska Anconitano hails from Naples - a fun and delicious sweet snack to have on the table for visitors this Christmas. These little Neopolitan dough balls are fried quickly to give them a light, delicious cake inside and crunchy outside layer, and then covered in honey and powdered sugar.
Steps to make Struffoli:
- In a large bowl, add flour, baking powder and salt. - - Stir to combine well. - - Melt butter in a sauce pot. - - After melting, weigh again. If the weight is lesser than 80g, add some canola or peanut oil.
- Infuse the melted butter with orange zest. - - Set aside to cool down slightly. - - Add the butter mixture into the flour mixture. - - Add in sugar and Cointreau.
- Stir to combine well with a fork. - - It should resemble wet sand consistency. - - Add in eggs, combining 1 at a time. - - Use a spatula to combine well. - - Once it comes together into a dough, knead lightly inside the bowl to pick up all the nooks and crannies.
- Form into a ball. - - Cover with a damp lint-free towel. - - Set aside to rest for 30 mins.
- Pinch a small dough and roll it into a long log with a small diameter of about 1/4 inch. - - Slice into 1/4 inch pieces. - - Roll each piece into small balls and set aside.
- Repeat the process for the remaining dough. - - Cover all the dough with damp lint-free towels to prevent from drying out. - - In a dutch oven over medium heat, add about 2 inches of oil. - - You can check the temperature of the oil by inserting a wooden chopstick into the oil. If bubbles start forming around the chopstick, the oil is ready for frying.
- Gently drop the dough balls into the oil. - - Using a spatula or a chopstick to gently move the dough balls around. This is to prevent them from sticking to one another. - - Do not crowd the dutch oven. Fry in small batches.
- Fry until golden brown on all sides. - - Remove the dough balls using a spider. - - Set aside on a plate lined with kitchen paper to drain off excess oil. - - Repeat the process for the remaining dough balls.
- Set aside to cool down slightly for about an hour. - - In a sauce pot over medium heat, add honey. - - Once bubbles start to form around the edges and the honey becomes runny water-like, add in the fried dough balls.
- Using a spatula, mix to coat the dough balls well with the hot honey. - - Add in almond flakes and mix to combine well. - - Once almost all the honey has evaporated, remove the mixture onto a cake stand or a serving plate.
- Using a spatula to shape into a wreath shape. It should be sticky enuff to hold it's shape. - - Careful as it is still extremely hot. - - Scatter some more almond flakes and sprinkles over the top. - - Garnish with some cherries. - - Set aside for at least 2 hrs before serving.
Struffoli are a Neapolitan fried balls of dough covered with honey and funfetti. If you're truly Italian you need to know the basic recipes of the Italian cuisine and the struffoli are one of this. Struffoli Italian Honey Balls are deep fried morsels of dough which are then dipped in a lemon honey syrup and topped with festive sprinkles. Gli struffoli sono il tipico dolce di Natale della antica tradizione napoletana. L'esecuzione non è velocissima ma Credere per provare.
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