Italian Food Recipes

This is a typical Italian dessert that it is prepared in the occasion of Carnival. Tortelli are little ball of sweet dough. You can prepare them without stuffing or with different types of stuffing like apple, strawberry, ricotta cheese, jam and many others. This is the recipe of tortelli without stuffing that is simple to realize!








INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):
150 g of Flour
3 Eggs
50 g of Sugar
1 / 2 Lemon
150 ml of Water
50 g of Butter
Salt
250 ml of Extra virgin olive oil to fry
Icing sugar

PREPARATION TIME: 2 hours

COOKING TIME: 20 minutes

WINE: Moscato D’Asti (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Place in a pan the water and the butter and let them boil until the butter melts.

Then add all the flour

and start immediately to stir until you obtain an homogeneous dough as shown in the picture below.

Now let the dough cool and stand for about 1 hours and 30 minutes. In the mean time beat one egg white till stiff.

When the dough is cool add one by one the yolk.


Add the sugar and mix.

At the end add the the egg white beaten

and mix in order to have a dough as this.

Heat extra virgin olive oil in a pan, when it is hot place small spoonfuls of the dough in it and let them brown.

When they are ready place them on a kitchen paper in order to remove the oil in excess. Then sprinkle them with some icing sugar. In this is way you have tortelli of Carnival!
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!