EVERY DAY: AN EASY – FAST – AND CHEAP – RECIPE THAT SUITS EVERYONE
Hi everyone!
Here we are with a typical Carnival dessert of the Piedmontese cuisine (North Italy), the bignole (fritters), suitable to finish a lunch but also for a snack.
Simple and tasty can be stuffed with custard or chocolate cream.
Let’s start:
CHOCOLATE FRITTERS
Ingredients for 4 people: 240 g flour – 175 g granulated sugar – 40 g bitter cocoa – 30 g butter – 5 egg yolks – 3 whole eggs – 6 dl whole milk – 1 lemon – a pinch of salt – powdered sugar
Preparation:
Prepare the cream. Knead the egg yolks in a bowl with 125 g of granulated sugar, 100 g of flour and sifted cocoa (or an equal amount of grated dark chocolate); dilute gradually the mix with 5 dl of cold milk and transfer it in a small saucepan. Put on the heat and cook over a gentle heat for 5 minutes from boiling. Cover the cream with a sheet of baking paper and let it cool.
Get the dough ready. Pour the remaining milk into a saucepan with 1 dl of water; add the butter into small pieces, the remaining granulated sugar, a pinch of salt and the lemon zest and bring to a boil.
Add the remaining flour all at once and stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until the dough has formed a homogeneous ball that will detach from the walls of the saucepan. Transfer the dough into a bowl, work a little to make it cool. Then incorporate the eggs, one at a time.
Fry the mixture to spoonfuls in plenty of hot oil until the fritters will be swollen and golden; drain gradually with a drilled ladle and dry on paper towels. Do not skimp on the quantity: the pancakes must navigate in the oil; the more it is abundant, the better they swell. Keep an eye on the temperature: it must be hot, not steaming, otherwise the pancakes darken quickly, before cooking inside.
Put the chocolate cream (now cold), in a pocket with thin nozzle; make a hole with the latter in the fritters and stuff with the filling.
Sprinkle the chocolate fritters with plenty of powdered sugar and serve.
Enjoy your meal!
original recipe: https://ricette.donnamoderna.com/bignole-al-cioccolato
I will commandeer the kitchen tonight and try this out. I am craving “sweet” and the perfect accompaniment to a good cup of coffee. (I will, I know, over indulge!) Not keeping milk in the house means a trip to the grocer (I pause to reflect on the lovely Italian way of vending groceries). Perhaps I should pick up a few flowers to make my seizing the kitchen from the Master Chef more palatable? Hmmm… Thank you.
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Thank you for commenting. They are also quite easy to make, which is a great advantage!
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