Italian Food Recipes

Chiacchiere, Carnival fried pastry, are typical dessert prepared in Italy in the occasion of Carnival. In each region of Italy they have different names: Cenci in Tuscany, Crostoli in Venice, Bugie in Genoa, Frappe in Emilia and Chiacchiere in Lombardy. You can prepare them following different kind of recipes, that presented below is very simple and delicious!








INGREDIENTS (for 6 people):
300 g of Flour
30 g of Butter
90 ml of Cream
50 g of Sugar
2 Eggs
60 ml of Dry white wine
Icing sugar
Extra virgin olive oil to fry (200 ml)
Flour for worktop

PREPARATION TIME: 1 hour and 10 minutes

COOKING TIME: 30 minutes

WINE: Moscato d’Asti (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Mix in a bowl the flour, the sugar, the butter and the eggs.

Then add the cream and the wine.

Mix all together in order to obtain homogeneous dough and let it stand for about 1 hour.

Now place a bit of flour over a worktop and with the help of a rolling pin roll out the dough in a pastry very thin.

Cut the pastry in rectangles and then make 2 incisions in the middle of them.


Preheat the extra virgin olive oil in a pan and fry in it the chiacchiere until they become golden.

Place the chiacchiere on a blotting paper in order to remove the oil in excess. Then place them in a platter and sprinkle with the icing sugar.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!