Italian Food Recipes

Friciò is a typical Italian recipe that comes from Piemonte. Friciò are fritters traditionally prepared in Piemonte in occasion of Carnival; they are simply prepared with flour, milk, eggs, yeast and sugar with the addition of the sweet raisins. In order to obtain a good result cook the Friciò always in a big quantity of hot but not boiled extra virgin olive oil and place in it, with the help of a teaspoon, a small quantity of the batter for each fritters.

INGREDIENTS (for 6 – 8 people)
250 ml of Milk
350 g of Flour
3 Eggs
50 g of Raisins
50 g of Sugar
A pinch of salt
10 g of Yeast for sweet
1 Grated lemon peel
Icing sugar
Extra virgin olive oil to fry

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 15 minutes

WINE: Malvasia

PREPARATION
Place the raisins in a bowl with water for about 10 minutes,


after this time drain them. In the meantime place the flour, the sugar and the yeast in a bowl and mix all together, then add the milk little by little and stir in order to obtain a batter thick and without lumps.

Add 1 grated lemon peel

and the eggs one by one by stirring;

at the end add the raisins.

Preheat in a pan about 200 ml of extra virgin olive oil, when oil is hot with the help of a teaspoon place in it some batter,

Friciò will blow up and rise to the surface of oil. It is important to cook not many friciò in the same time and always in a big quantity of hot oil. Cook Friciò until they become slightly golden,

then remove them from the oil and place them over a sheet of kitchen paper in order to remove the oil in excess. Then place them in a platter sprinkle with some icing sugar and serve them.
This is the result:


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